EFA launches NoCleanFeed.com
Electronic Frontiers Australia has launched NoCleanFeed.com – a website to educate and inform Australians of the Government’s plan to inflict internet censorship upon all homes and businesses. The site provides details about the plan and why it won’t work, as well as extensive information about how you can take action and put an end to...
Budget: Conroy’s Cyber Safety plan nets $126M, filtering included
Update May 12, 2009: Click here for information on filtering in the 2009-10 Budget. Labor will spend $126 million over four years on their Cyber-Safety plan which Senator Conroy says will create a safer online environment for Australian children. That’d be nice if Mr Conroy’s idea of cyber safety didn’t include mandatory ISP filtering for...
Parents foaming at mouth over nude teacher photograph, students revolt
Outraged parents, nude teachers, and classroom protests. The only thing that could make this story anymore insane would be a pack of axe wielding albino midgets. Students of Sydney primary school teacher Lynne Tziolas have started a petition to have her reinstated after she was sacked for appearing naked in Cleo magazine. Lynne, who teaches...
ET call filth: Mr Conroy and the dirty iPhone
UPDATE: You can now listen to this speech here. Senator Conroy is worried about the iPhone. In his speech last night at a Sydney Institute talk on the topic of Broadband and the Digital Economy, Conroy expressed concern about the new fangled phone, noting that because of it the need for mandatory filtering was now...
