Archive for March, 2008

The Internet is a monster loose in suburbia

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

When it comes to reporting news about the Internet, the media hasn't progressed very far from the days of gloomy Time magazine covers and articles on how your child is building bombs using lemons and baking soda. Tonight's 7:30 Report on Australia's Clean Feed proposal might suggest the ABC hasn't ...

Aus Broadband Survey: 73% disagree with ISP content filtering

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

Whirlpool has released the results of their 2007 Australian Broadband Survey. The survey was completed and verified 17,881 times. In response to the question do you support the government's policy for mandatory ISP-level content filtering (opt-out), around three quarters of respondents disagreed with the decision to filter internet content, with more ...