Archive for February, 2008
Thursday, February 28th, 2008
Psychologist and social researcher, Hugh Mackay, writes in his new book Advance Australia...Where? that if we make it appear we have solved a problem through regulation, we ease the burden of personal moral responsibility.
Mackay uses the example of a woman who wanted environmentally unfriendly cleaning products banned from supermarket shelves ...
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
Just like most of us have been saying since day one: education is the key to helping protect children from the dangers they face when accessing the web. Stephen Conroy's own department practically agrees. The ACMA's latest report says education about online safety would be just as effective as internet ...
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Senator Conroy has given the green-light to ISP filtering, acknowledging it could affect internet speeds. In his speech to the Internet Industry Association last evening, he confirmed that the Rudd Government?s election commitment to introduce ISP level filtering would go ahead.Secure Computing Magazine reports:
?Labor has never argued that ISP ...
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Brisbane Times has a ripper of a headline this morning: Net a 'supermarket' for pedophiles. That's what QLD Detective John Rous had to say about social networking sites like Facebook, and the Brissy Times lapped it up. You can't buy headlines that good!
Sure they could have gone with something along ...
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
Irene Graham now has on her website a complete run down of Labor's mandatory filtering plan:
The Australian Federal Labor Government, which was elected on 24 November 2007, has a "plan" to force all Australian ISPs to implement server-based filtering systems to block access to "child pornography", "X-rated material", "violence" and ...
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Monday, February 18th, 2008
The most important news from today's Senate estimates hearings was that the Tasmanian trial of ISP level filtering is using a blacklist containing just 800 URLs (the current ACMA blacklist). This is a miniscule number when you consider Senator Conroy expects his cleanfeed to blacklist not only illegal material, but ...
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Monday, February 18th, 2008
Live coverage of the Senate Standing Committee (watch here):
Senate Standing Committee update 1: Senator Conroy at 8:30PM (ACT Local Time) confirmed he is committed to introducing mandatory filtering at an ISP level. ISP filtering trials in Tasmania will end before June 30th and a 'live trial' will follow.
Senate Standing ...
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Monday, February 18th, 2008
Those lovable oddballs at the Australian Prayer Network have a request: Pray for Stephen Conroy and pray his plans for Intenet censorship are a success.
It's a three step process and the APN make it easy with this short guide. Here's what you need to pray for:
Pray for Senator Conroy as ...
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Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Opposition communications spokesman Bruce Billson says Rudd and Conroy's mandatory clean feed plan is an ill-conceived measure by a government that believes only it has the authority to decide what's appropriate or inappropriate content for computer users.
He labeled it a "Harebrained, half-baked policy dreamt up in the lead-up to an ...
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Thursday, February 14th, 2008
The censors have Refused Classification on the PS3 and Xbox 360 game Dark Sector, saying it's violence 'exceeds strong' and therefore cannot be rated MA15+.
Gaming website IGN says the Classification Board report calls it a violent and sometimes gruesome game with a sinister storyline and ominous outcome.
"The violence and aggression ...
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