Archive for January, 2008
Thursday, January 17th, 2008
Community action group GetUp is asking Australian's what big issues deserve attention in 2008. So don't delay - let them know you oppose mandatory filtering and censorship. Let them know it's a big issue and one they should help stop.
The great thing about GetUp is they have over 200 thousand ...
Posted in Fighting Censorship | 3 Comments »
Tuesday, January 15th, 2008
Mark Pesce sums up in a neat article what much of the web communities views on mandatory filtering have been over the last two weeks.
He had some great points of his own to add:
Last May, Wang Guoqing, Vice Minister of the State Council of Information, the man who oversees the ...
Posted in Censorship News Bites | No Comments »
Monday, January 14th, 2008
Let's not forget in these crazy times of Internet censorship that the moral crusaders haven't given up roaming our streets, fighting the good fight, and trying censor anything that doesn't coincide with what they think is acceptable.
The Australian Childhood Foundation is demanding retail fashion chain Jay Jays withdraw their line ...
Posted in Clothing Censorship, Parental outrage | 7 Comments »
Monday, January 14th, 2008
Stilgherrian has published a cracking letter sent to him by Child Wise?s Bernadette McMenamin. Whilst McMenamin's drive to protect kids is one I fully support, she clearly shows from her communication with Stil that she is wiling to do it at any cost -- even without knowing its potential to ...
Posted in Internet Censorship | No Comments »
Monday, January 14th, 2008
Child Wise CEO Bernadette McMenamin has been copping a lot of flack (and rightfully so) for her article in the Australian calling for filters. But now she's distancing herself from the Conroy plan and saying all she wants is for child pornography to be blocked.
Before I comment on her most ...
Posted in Internet Censorship | No Comments »
Monday, January 14th, 2008
Computer World and PC World (both part of IDG) have published part one of a series of articles looking at mandatory filtering in Australia. The first, Why Content Filtering Will Fail, highlights a number of concerns that all of us have, especially ISPs.
A director of a small Sydney-based ISP, who ...
Posted in Censorship News Bites, Internet Censorship | No Comments »
Saturday, January 12th, 2008
The U.S. State Department has been given $15 Million by Congress to develop anti-censorship tools and services which could help Internet users breach electronic firewalls set up by China, Iran and other ?closed societies.? Defense News reports that the budget is to be "awarded competitively to software developers to produce ...
Posted in Fighting Censorship, International | 1 Comment »
Friday, January 11th, 2008
Dale over at Defending Scoundrels posts that Communications Day, an Australian trade newsletter, has reported that Senator Conroy will reveal the details behind his mandatory filtering scheme on February 21. It says Mr Conroy will outline a full policy development strategy and quell hysteria over the plan.
But why not 'quell' ...
Posted in Internet Censorship | 2 Comments »
Thursday, January 10th, 2008
At the centre of the Government's argument for mandatory filtering is the protection of children. Disagree with the plan and you're labeled as someone who doesn't care about the welfare of children. Wrong.
You see, I care a great deal about the future of young Australians. I care that ...
Posted in Internet Censorship | 7 Comments »
Wednesday, January 9th, 2008
Stephen Conroy's mandatory ISP filtering plan has been criticized as being a carbon copy of China's Internet censorship regime. Not in regards to the technical side of blacklisting websites, but the underlying desire for the Government to control the most important information resource ever created.
I spoke briefly with one Australian ...
Posted in International, Internet Censorship | 4 Comments »
