Big list of No Aussie Net Censorship posters
Anti Internet censorship posters are popping up everywhere. Print em, stick em, put em on your web page, get the word out. Got one I don’t have? Email or Skype me. If you created one of these and I haven’t credited you, please let me know.
Interview with Mark Newton
Network Performancing Daily has Interviewed Mark Newton about filtering. Not a great deal of new information, but it’s worth listening to or reading just to stay up to date with what’s happening. Newton: ‘So I’d make the comment – and this is – I guess – bringing things back to the center a little bit:...
Conroy Vs Mark Pesce on filtering: ABC Media Report, Thurs
Stephen Conroy and Mark Pesce will have their say (separately recorded interviews) on ISP filtering this Thursday morning on ABC Radio National’s Media Report. Tune in at 8:30AM, 8PM or download the podcast. It’s a shame Pesce isn’t in the same studio as Conroy — He’d eat the senator alive. Update 30 Oct: Podcast is...
EFA filtering updates on Twitter
Electronic Frontiers Australia is now on Twitter. Follow @efa_oz. What’s Twitter? It’s a simple service that let’s you stay on top of what’s happening with your friends, or in this case, what’s happening with filtering and EFA. Or as Wikipedia puts it: Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users...
Ban X-Rated porn for everyone, including adults: Family First
Breaking: Asher Moses at SMH writes that Family First Senator Steve Fielding wants hardcore pornography and fetish material blocked under the Government’s plans to filter the Internet. Asked to specify the categories of content that Senator Fielding would like blocked by the mandatory first tier, a Family First spokeswoman indicated the party would want X-rated...
Conroy misleads Senate in more ways than one
Senator Scott Ludlam’s showdown with Senator Conroy last week during Estimates (PDF) was a welcome sign that the opposition had stopped sitting on their hands when it came to filtering. However, as Mark Newton pointed out last Thursday evening, Conroy’s answers to Ludlam’s questions about other international filtering examples were rather misleading. Tonight Dale Clapperton...
Where’s your MP stand on filtering? New website keeps score
A wiki has been set up to record which members of the Senate and House of Representatives are in favour of and against mandatory ISP filtering. The site relies on us to submit the responses we receive from our honorable representatives so get cracking here.
Internet access on NSW student laptops restricted to whitelist
To me a ‘digital education revolution’ conjures up images of children being doused in terabytes of knowledge, but for the NSW Department of Education it means controlling what senior students are able to access on the Internet using a highly restrictive whitelist of pre-approved websites. I think mine is better. According to ZDNet.com.au, laptops to...
Can a clean feed be introduced without legislation?
Dale Clapperton asks a very important question: Can Labor implement a ‘clean feed’ without legislation? He writes: To get any legislation through the Senate at the moment, Labor require the support of either the Coalition, or all seven of the other Senators (five Greens, plus Steve Fielding and Nick Xenophon). If the Coalition oppose the...
Trials already a foregone conclusion, presumption is filtering will not work: Nick Minchin
They speak. Shadow Comm’s Minister Nick Minchin is ‘appalled’ that a Conroy staffer tried to suppress Mark Newton’s critical comments on the Government’s mandatory filtering plan. Minchin told Computer World he’s appalled that a member of Senator Conroy’s staff is apparently trying to bully the IIA over this matter. He also says he’ll wait for...
The high price of Internet filtering
Welcome readers of ABC Online. You’ve probably come here after reading my article The High Price of Internet Filtering (check it out if you’re one of my regulars) and are now looking for more information on the Goverment’s ISP filtering plan. Here’s some of my posts on the topic to get you started: Latest 24/Oct:...
Australian Government’s attempt to gag ISP filter critic backfires
Breaking: SMH has revealed how Belinda Dennett, a policy adviser for Senator Conroy, tried to ‘bully’ Internode Network Engineer Mark Newton into keeping quiet with his criticisms of the Government’s clean feed proposal. Newton wrote on Whirlpool earlier this week that he had received personal attacks from Conroy’s office, but didn’t mention what they were....
