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name is Tony Johansen. I am an artist. I like art and science and
poetry and books and history and technology and lots more besides.
Every day I am excited by the marvelous things I see in this wonderful
world and beyond. I love the Internet for giving me access to so much.
I am like a sponge for wondrous things or things that make me wonder. This site is really just a
scrapbook. Being on the web, however, means being able to share the
treasures I find. That's me, Tony Johansen, artist who likes to share
my excitement of being alive.
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Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (www.pta.gov.pk) has directed all ISPs of the country to block access to www.youtube.com web site for containing blasphemous web content/movies.
— Statement that was seen when trying to access YouTube during Pakistan’s shortlived ban on YouTube during February.
BRAZIL
A Brazilian model was caught (and videoed) having sex on a beach. As a result YouTube was banned.
MOROCCO
YouTube banned because of a video critical of the King plus other videos crticizing politics in Western Sahara.
TURKEY
YouTube banned because of a video critical of Ataturk the founder of modern Turkey.
THAILAND
YouTube banned because of videos critical of the King.
PAKISTAN
YouTube banned for 2 hours in February. Lifted immediately because the attempt to ban it locally brought down YouTube all over the world.
Students at Mt Lawley Senior High School, Australia. The school takes a leadership role in encouraging the digital arts and students create, upload, and download video content as a normal part of schooling. Across the border in Victoria students in 1600 schools are banned from doing the same thing.
AUSTRALIA
Australia needs to hang its head in shame. In a long list of repressive regimes and third world countries, Australia is the lone Western democracy to institute a ban on YouTube. True it is only partial, and restricted to a single state - Victoria - but in that state parents and schools have banned YouTube for school students. Like Iran, it appears they believe that Victorian students should be protected from “immorality” and time wasting. While students elsewhere are encouraged to creatively interact with the Internet, Victorian students are encouraged to be, well, Victorian.
IRAQ
YouTube is available to the citizens but US forces are not permitted to access it by order of the Pentagon. It seems too many soldiers were filming themselves doing naughty things. They used to say that truth is the first casualty of war. Now days it seems YouTube is the new first casualty.
CHINA
China likes to ban lots of things like Bjork’s songs, and Ben Hur, so why not YouTube? They have yet to do so despite threats but they did attempt to control access in Tibet during recent protests.
INDIA
India threatened to ban YouTube due to a video that criticized Ghandi
China attempted to control the news of dissent in Tibet recently by trying to prevent uploading of video content from the troubled “province”. In years past the communist authorities have been used to doing as they liked as if behind closed doors. They thought they could control information in the lead up to the Olympic Games as Hitler and the Nazi party tried to do in 1936. In 2008, however it is more difficult to hide the truth and by trying to do so they have focussed World attention on the situation. While the Chinese authorities were saying that the protests were small acts of racial hatred by small numbers of disgruntled citizens encouraged by the “terrorist” Dalai Lama the world could see where the injustices truly lay.
In the digital world the photograph is king. Long live the king. This beautiful collection is one of the most sensitive gallery’s of photography on the web.
