Archive for September, 2008
Sunday, September 21st, 2008
Alan Jones has only been back at work a week and he's already whipping up a parental fear frenzy:
Children at risk from every angle
Alan Jones
We need to reflect on the dreadful story of a young 19-year-old woman being raped in a taxi in November last year, twice indecently assaulted ...
Posted in Panic | 3 Comments »
Thursday, September 18th, 2008
Malcolm Turnbull may not be the silver bullet that kills censorship in Australia, but he does provide a better shot at it than Keven Rudd and the ALP.
At his first media conference as leader of the opposition, Turnbull commented on something that lies at the heart of what makes the ...
Posted in Politicians and Prudes | 6 Comments »
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
Two Brisbane adult stores have been fined for selling Category 2 magazines and films classified as X18+ and RC.
Queenslander's can legally watch and purchase such material, but it is illegal for QLD stores to sell it. That creates a big problem and not just for retailers in the Sunshine State ...
Posted in Film Censorship, Reports | 3 Comments »
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
American Airlines is under fire from customers and flight attendants because their inflight Internet service will give passengers access to pornographic websites (despite no recorded incidents of it happening). They want filtering software installed to keep all naughty stuff out of the air (Die Hard 4 as inflight ...
Posted in International, Internet Censorship | No Comments »
Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
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Gordon Ramsay now has a video game and it's been classified PG for its mild coarse language. At least those people who complain that games are all violence and sex can now add roasting to ...
Posted in Game Censorship | No Comments »
Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
Dale and Colin from EFA will present a talk on online freedoms and rights at Melbourne's Software Freedom Day this Saturday the 20th of September. Dale writes at NoCensorshipAus that they will be focusing on the Commonwealth government's current Internet censorship agenda.
Where: The Hub, 17 Waterview Walk, Docklands, Melbourne
When: 20/09/2008 ...
Posted in Events | 4 Comments »
Sunday, September 14th, 2008
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Advanced Medical Institute has begun rolling out their new billboards which will read 'Want Longer Lasting Censored?'
AMI CEO Jack Vaisman had this to say about the change:
'We have to comply with the Advertising Standards Bureau regulations and we ...
Posted in Advertising Censorship | 10 Comments »
Friday, September 12th, 2008
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Child protection campaigner Hetty Johnston says the reason the age of sex offenders and their victims is getting lower is probably because of easy access to internet pornography.
The evidence to support such a claim -- Either Hetty doesn't have it or the media didn't report ...
Posted in Internet Censorship, Politicians and Prudes | 2 Comments »
Friday, September 12th, 2008
Round 3 of Senator Conroy's filtering plan is underway: The Government will seek expressions of interest in mid October from ISPs willing to test ISP level filtering in a real-world environment. AusIT story here.
If you haven't already done so, please read my analysis (and other people's comments) of the closed ...
Posted in Internet Censorship | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, September 10th, 2008
Now New Zealand is making fun of us because of our looming clean feed. They've even reminded us that ex Tasmanian Senator Paul Calvert once said you have only got to press P on the Internet to get porn.
Posted in International, Internet Censorship | 4 Comments »
