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Protesters at the Save Our ABC rally at Melbournes Federation Square. Photograph: AAP

The Coalitions cuts to the ABC and SBS are ripping at the heart of vital public institutions, federal opposition leader, Bill Shorten, says.

He also told a Save Our ABC rally at Melbournes Federation Square on Sunday that Australians are rightly angered by the budget cuts in breach of Tony Abbotts pre-election promise.

This is not a government of competition this is a government of censorship, Shorten said.

This is a government of savages, ripping at the heart of our national institution.

They are launching a brutal attack despite promising in the clearest, most unambiguous language, there will be no cuts to the ABC.

Shorten said the public broadcasters reflected our national identity ... our national soul and Australians would need to fight to have the cuts reversed.

Our ABC has always been here for us. It is now time for us to be there for the ABC, he said.

The crowd was told the governments move to slash $254m from the ABCs budget over five years would amount to 500 ABC staff losing their jobs and more facing insecure employment via casual or part-time work.

Some TV shows and local news bulletins would be discontinued, websites and web services would be shut down and production facilities centralised away from regional areas.

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Curb Your Enthusiasm - Sex, Censorship and Art
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With over seven billion people on the planet and approximately 40% of them online, the internet is one of the most important resources to protect, but is it completely protected? We've all heard about bugs like Shellshock and the 512k router problem, but are there other menaces that could bring down the worldwide web?

"While there are extreme scenarios like natural disasters and terrorist attacks that can cause disruption to the web, it is actually far more commonplace to see the internet fall foul due to shortcomings with routine maintenance and operations, such as hardware upgrades," says Mike Palladino, director of IP infrastructure and operations at internet hosting company Internap in Atlanta, US. Palladino is talking about widely-deployed, older routers hitting their default 512k routing table limit, a problem that has this year seen websites and networks knocked down.

It's time to move to IPv6

At around 500,000 routes a figure that's increasing by around 1,000 routes per week the growth of the global internet routing table shows no signs of slowing. "It's putting many organisations on a collision course with network instability over the coming months and years as millions of legacy routers hit their physical limits," thinks Palladino. "What makes the problem even more challenging is that companies don't want the headache of fully migrating to IPv6, so they are trying to squeeze as much IPv4 out of the remaining allocations as possible, which is only adding to the inflation of the routing table."

Many companies are getting caught off guard, Palladino believes, and smaller enterprises in particular could learn some very painful lessons.

This is the real baddie. "Some of the largest instances of internet outages weren't caused by natural disasters or terrorist attacks, but rather government censorship," says Brian Chappell, Director, Technical Services EMEAI & APAC at the Leeds office of BeyondTrust.

There are theoretical threats such as the Kremlin's plans to take control of the .ru domain and take Russia off the global internet during an 'emergency' and there are real problems caused by governments, such as the 'great firewall' in China. The latter's latest effort is Green Dam, a piece of web censorship software that will soon be pre-installed inside every computer sold in China.

The NSA might be monitoring, but other governments actively switch off the internet

That, and Edward Snowden's NSA online surveillance revelations, are mere asides in the fight against governments who think it is their right to switch the internet on and off. Censorship by the Chinese government was thought to be behind an internet outage in January that severed access to the web for hundreds of millions of people, while governments in both Libya and Egypt effectively banned the internet during the Arab Spring uprisings of 2011.

And who can forget the almost comical stance of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who called social media "the worst menace to society" before banning it in April? Luckily, the country's constitutional court overturned the ban after two weeks. However, the ban had an unexpected consequence. "When the Turkish prime minister banned Twitter, tweets about the ban and from Turkey increased significantly," says Dinah Alobeid at the New York office of analyst company Brandwatch.

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The new feature film is based on a global campaign against censorship laws, which is supported by the likes of Rihanna and Cara Delevingne Fans of the movement have criticized filmmakers for deciding to censor the trailer Miley Cyrus revealed earlier this week that she has recorded a song for the movie

By Charlie Lankston for MailOnline

Published: 14:22 EST, 21 November 2014 | Updated: 19:53 EST, 21 November 2014

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A new trailer for a movie based on global anti-censorship campaign Free the Nipple has been criticized by viewers because it features actresses whose nipples have been blurred out.

The movie, which is due to be released on December 12, is a satirical account of the story behind the Free the Nipple campaign and is directed by the movement's founder, Lina Esco, who also stars as one of the main characters.

But while the full-length film, which will reportedly not contain any censorship, focuses on the group's fierce battle to see censorship laws changed, the only scene in the trailer where there is any nudity has been censored - much to the outrage of the campaign's most dedicated supporters.

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China and the New Internet World ICA Preconference: Censorship and Trust in Online Information
Speakers: Chair: Patricia Riley Sonya Yan Song Keyi Xu/Yu Liu/Xueting Zhao, Xiaoyue Dong.

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The difficult poor John Adamss The Gospel According to the Other Mary at English National Opera, London. Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian

Their voices are almost completely missing from the Bible, yet it was women who were closest to Jesus in his final days. The Gospel According to the Other Mary, a new opera by John Adams, tells the story of that tumultuous time through what those women saw and experienced. In addition to the scriptures, the libretto draws on work by 20th-century writers, including Primo Levi and the journalist and activist Dorothy Day. Through their words, we are able to look at Mary and her sister Martha in much more depth and also tell the story of todaysdispossessed and disempowered generation.

You could take the piece in any number of directions, but for me therewas only one way. The production I am directing for English National Opera is set today, in Los Angeless Skid Row. Mary and Martha have opened a house of hospitality for homeless and unemployed women, which survives on small donations andsmall miracles.

Day, whose words form much of the libretto, was one of the founders of the Catholic Worker Movement and its newspaper. In the early 1930s, during the Great Depression, she opened the first soup kitchens in the Bowery and the Lower East Side of New York. Theywere for homeless people who had lost their jobs and were desperate. These were educated people, but like today there were no jobs. TheNew Yorker has called her asaint for the Occupy era and she was deeply radical: the church she believed in wasthe church of immigrants, the church of the poor. It wasnt enough to give someone a meal, she said, you had to give them a sense of what it is tofeel whole. Jesus, she said, was not on Earth to be with the decent poor. He was here to be with the deranged, the drunken, the degraded, the difficult.

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Adams and I responded strongly to this idea. Today, on both sides of the Atlantic, we have abandoned the poor and openly attacked the most vulnerable in society. But what also appealed to us was Days rawness and honesty about the struggle of trying to actually live your convictions, and not just have them as nice ideas. She was arrested many times, the first occasion at the age of 20 for picketing the White House on behalf of womens suffrage. The last arrest came when she was in her 70s, protesting for the rights of farm workers. This felt telling: in the US, the next generations struggle will be over food, who grows it and how.

It was important for us to connect the opera to the plight of migrant workers in California and across the US, still the poorest and worst-treated employees in the country. The immigration law is used to provide a workforce of slave labour. The conditions they work under are obscene: the strawberries they pick are covered in pesticides, meaning the women have miscarriages and shorter lives. But if anybody complains, the immigration department is contacted and theyre deported.

For me, the point about sacred material is that its not something that happened 2,000 years ago. Its contemporary. The great painters Rembrandt, Rogier van der Weyden, Bruegel depicted their own times. The events they portray ask us where we stand, who we are, what were doing right now. Bruegels religious scenes have people working in the fields, squabbling, eating, going about their daily business. I find the same sense of immediacy in the Bach passions. Theyre about what we did this morning and what were doing tonight, and the values they represent are deeply attached to universal questions of justice, reconciliation, restoration, suffering, illness, recovery and resurrection. These are challenging issues, but if were not willing to be challenged, were missing out on what life is asking of us.

Opera can make such a challenge beautiful. Even if some of its truths are difficult, Adamss music is ravishing, taking you deep into a place you would otherwise hesitate to go. Music is not about itself. Its about everything else we think, feel and care about. What I get to do is put music on a stage, and thereby peoples lives and hopes, too. We all need these mirrors, though we dont always appreciate what we see in them. In fact, the usual thing to do is blame the mirror. But its the artists job to reflect back to society things that dont always get seen with sharpness or moral intensity.

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Peter Sellars: The United States is coming close to censorship

David Finchers Gone Girl opened in America to rave reviews from fans and critics alike.

Back home in India, though film buffs were visibly excited about thefilms release, there remained a niggling fear in the minds of many.

In 2011, Fincher had refused to release The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo in India when the censor board imposed some cuts on it.

Audiences were also wary after their experience of The Wolf of Wall Street (in which significant portions were cut by censors in spite of the film being rated A).

This time around, however, the director and his team found a way to work around conservative Indian censors. Using innovative editing techniques and visual manipulation, Gone Girl was certified without a single cut.

A digital visual zoom-in, as the audio played unencumbered, instead of deleting scenes in entirety is all it took tomaintain a semblance of continuity.

Venkatesh Chakravarthy, regional director at L.V. Prasad Film & TV Academy, said, Directors have found different ways to challenge censors, over the years. In Parasakthi, for instance, there was a scene where a part of the audio was muted while the visuals remained untouched. Despite this, theaudience knew exactly what was being communicated, beating the system of State censors.

In rural areas, which are less monitored, adding bonus footage is a regularphenomenon. The digital medium today has increased the possibilities for visual manipulation, said Mr. Chakravarthy.

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