[LINK] Electioneering

[Stilgherrian]

On 15/10/07 1:49 PM, "Howard Lowndes" <lannet at lannet.com.au> wrote:
> 
> Stilgherrian wrote:
>> On 15/10/07 10:51 AM, "Howard Lowndes" <lannet at lannet.com.au> wrote:
>>> I notice that there are two web sites being promoted that claim to
>>> present candidates views in response to user's questions.  I have
>>> already asked the AEC about the legality of these sites:
>> 
>> Your doubts/concerns being, what?
> 
> ...whether they are in compliance with the Electoral Act

Well, quite, but what specifically?

Or just a kind of Luddite fear that "It's new and different, therfore it
must be wrong?" *ducks* ;)

More seriously, there's a very interesting point here, which I've previously
blogged about http://stilgherrian.com/politics/bennelong_time/ and which is
well-illustrated by the video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_zulGddP6o
... in that it doesn't have a ³written and authorised by² blurb at the end.
Does that matter? Or is this really just ³a citizen expressing an opinion²,
as he might over a pint at the local pub?

It used to be that producing and distributing ³political advertising² took
money, and plenty of it. Now, the means of production are in everyone¹s
hands, and the means of distribution, like YouTube, are there for the taking
too. No longer is Davo¹s incredibly amusing impersonation of George W Bush
confined to the front bar ‹ 15 minutes later it¹s online for the world to
see. And yet our rules on political advertising are still stuck in the 20th
Century.

Clearly something needs to be changed, somehow ‹ but how?

Or does it?

Stil



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