Archive for February, 2009
Thursday, February 26th, 2009
Independent Senator Nick Xenophon has withdrawn all support for the Government's mandatory ISP filtering scheme according to SMH. Asher Moses reports:
Senator Nick Xenophon previously indicated he may support a filter that blocks online gambling websites but in a phone interview today he withdrew all support, saying "the more evidence that's ...
Posted in Internet Censorship | 8 Comments »
Tuesday, February 24th, 2009
You can now watch the filtering debate between Bernadette McMenamin (Childwise), Anthony Pillion (Webshield), Geordie Guy (EFA), and Mark Newton which took place at the Kickstart 2009 media conference on the weekend. Check out the debate here.
McMenamin still doesn't understand why so many are opposed to mandatory ISP filtering if ...
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Monday, February 23rd, 2009
In response to questions from Senator Cory Bernardi during a Senate Standing Committee today (transcript here), Senator Stephen Conroy confirmed that the Government intends to block Refused Classification (RC) content under their mandatory ISP filtering scheme. He said there is a strong, overwhelming case for blocking RC content and other ...
Posted in Internet Censorship | 28 Comments »
Monday, February 23rd, 2009
The DBCDE has commissioned the Child Health Promotion Research Centre at Edith Cowan University to conduct a 'major review' of Australian and international research on cyber-safety. Here's a snippet from the Government's press release:
"The Rudd Government has committed to a comprehensive and evidence-based approach to cyber-safety policies and it is ...
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Friday, February 20th, 2009
In response to Clive Hamilton's recent article in Australian IT, Kieran from Websinthe.org sent an email to Charles Sturt University suggesting there needs to be more peer review of Mr Hamilton's media commentary. Here's the email:
While Clive Hamilton is obviously a greatly respectable academic there really needs to be ...
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Wednesday, February 18th, 2009
If you were wondering why the opinion pieces from Clive Hamilton and Stephen Conroy on Australian IT were suddenly receiving an extraordinarily huge spike in the number of comments from those supporting mandatory ISP filtering, it's probably a result of the Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) requesting their members make themselves ...
Posted in Internet Censorship | 24 Comments »
Tuesday, February 17th, 2009
Everybody remembers when their granddad would sit them on their knee and enthusiastically recall a crazy story that happened to them in 1939. It was likely a ripper of a yarn. Unfortunately for you, Granddad probably forgot he'd already told you the same story the last fifty times you visited. ...
Posted in Internet Censorship | 21 Comments »
Monday, February 16th, 2009
You use any of these same tactics Clive Hamilton used in his opinion article for Australian IT, the Web doesn't belong to net libertarians. Such as:
You need to spend the first 271 words, or 5 paragraphs, brewing up a completely fictional situation involving a boy looking at "weird-looking vaginas", upskirts ...
Posted in Internet Censorship | 30 Comments »
Wednesday, February 11th, 2009
Senator Conroy has released the names of which ISPs will be participating in round one of his live filtering pilot. They are:
Primus Telecommunications
Tech 2U (care for a trip back to 1992 anyone?)
Webshield (already offers filtered service)
OMNIconnect
Netforce
Highway 1
Optus and iiNet are not in this first round and whether they will participate ...
Posted in Internet Censorship | 17 Comments »
Monday, February 9th, 2009
School students across the country (anyone know if all school's participate?) will again take part in Safer Internet Day this year. Organised by ACMA in Australia, Safer Internet Day (SID) is an International event to promote safe and responsible use of the Internet, and unlike some of the Government's other ...
Posted in Safety and Education | 10 Comments »
