Archive for December, 2008
Sunday, December 28th, 2008
20. You can’t put a vagina on a female sculpture
At least not in Queensland. A nude female sculpture (with a vagina) at a beach side park in Bribie Island had Moreton Bay Regional Council mayor Allan Sutherland pink with embarrassment. The council removed the statue because it was not their ...
Posted in Worst Censorship & Outrage of... | 29 Comments »
Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008
Senator Conroy has responded to an article published on the front page of The Sydney Morning Herald which revealed that the Government has sat on a report that labeled mandatory ISP filtering as being fundamentally flawed since February. Senator Conroy also has announced the live trial has been delayed until ...
Posted in Internet Censorship | 5 Comments »
Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008
Just two days after a list of URLs on Thailand's Internet censorship blacklist were published on WikiLeaks.org, the contents of Denmark's blacklist has also been published on the same site. According to WikiLeaks the list contains 3863 sites blocked by Danish ISPs participating in Denmark's censorship scheme as of ...
Posted in Internet Censorship | 28 Comments »
Monday, December 22nd, 2008
Update 23/12/08: Thanks to front page pressure on The Sydney Morning Herald, the DBCDE has been forced to release this report. Download the PDF. I've published Conroy's response here.
Asher Moses at Fairfax reports that a 'high-level report' on ISP filtering given to the Federal Government in February was kept secret. ...
Posted in Internet Censorship | 23 Comments »
Monday, December 22nd, 2008
In the latest topic open for comment on the DBCDE blog, Promoting a civil and confident society online, Senator Conroy says the Government does not view the debate about mandatory ISP-level content filter as an argument about freedom of speech.
He also reveals that 'technology that filters peer-to-peer and BitTorrent traffic ...
Posted in Internet Censorship | 29 Comments »
Monday, December 22nd, 2008
WikiLeaks has published a list of over 1,200 websites recently added to Thailand's Internet censorship blacklist.
Wikileaks says every blocked site has the internally noted reason of "lese majeste" -- criticizing the King -- however, it is obvious that many sites were blocked for quite different reasons. It would appear, in ...
Posted in International, Internet Censorship | 4 Comments »
Friday, December 19th, 2008
ISP's who applied to take part in the filter trial have still not heard from the DBCDE on whether their application has been approved, despite the department wanting to start the trial on December 24. A spokesperson for Senator Conroy says they are still evaluating the applications. More at News.com.au.
Do ...
Posted in Internet Censorship | 34 Comments »
Thursday, December 18th, 2008
Mark Pesce has written an excellent article over at his usual haunt, ABC Unleashed, titled Simpsons and sensibility. It's a look at the Simpsons Porn case which made headlines last week (court document available here as a PDF). ABC took their time publishing it so a lot of what Mark ...
Posted in Panic | 10 Comments »
Wednesday, December 17th, 2008
Jon Seymour and Stilgherrian replied swiftly to Bernadette McMenamin's (Child Wise) sickening accusation that Australians who protest mandatory ISP filtering are advocating child pornography.
Jon writes:
Bernadette McMenamin's business is moral panic. She has a vested interest in it. From her point of view, an ineffective filter is actually a very good ...
Posted in Internet Censorship | 5 Comments »
Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
Bernadette McMenamin, CEO of child protection organisation ChildWise, says those aware of the facts regarding mandatory ISP filtering are advocating child pornography.
She told Australian IT that people are growing hysterical about misinformation that is being spread about the filter.
"Instead of hearing hysteria from the minority we need to hear from ...
Posted in Internet Censorship | 20 Comments »
