Archive for March, 2009
Thursday, March 26th, 2009
What might be the most bizarre thing to escape Senator Conroy's mouth during his appearance on Q&A (more so than his technical explanation of how a website hacking took place) was his assurance that under his ministry the ACMA blacklist had not been added to. Possibly realising his mistake, or ...
Posted in Internet Censorship | 11 Comments »
Thursday, March 26th, 2009
A website containing artistic photographs taken by Bill Henson and classified PG (Parental Guidance Recommended) by the Australian Classification Board (ACB) was included on the ACMA blacklist by mistake says Senator Stephen Conroy.
During his appearance on Q&A Senator Conroy described the mistake as a "technical error" and hinted that if ...
Posted in Internet Censorship | 9 Comments »
Thursday, March 26th, 2009
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The website of the Australian Classification Board was hacked this evening. The identity of the individual or group responsible is unknown. At 8:19PM AEST the front page reads:
Welcome to the Classification Website
This site contains information about the boards ...
Posted in Censorship News Bites | 29 Comments »
Thursday, March 26th, 2009
The always-awesome Peter Black has uploaded an audio recording of the NewMatilda Tangled Web forum held in Brisbane this week. Peter chaired the event at which Senator Ludlam, Nic Suzor and Irene Graham spoke about net censorship in Australia. If you missed my live coverage of the event, you can ...
Posted in Events, Internet Censorship | 1 Comment »
Thursday, March 26th, 2009
Hey guys. This popped up on the radar today: Associate Professor Bjorn Landfeldt will speak at a free University of Sydney seminar on the Government's Internet filtering scheme next Friday, 3rd of April.
The lowdown:
The Australian government is currently planning to introduce mandatory Internet content filtering. The move would clearly set ...
Posted in Events, Internet Censorship | 2 Comments »
Thursday, March 26th, 2009
Tony Jones, host of the ABC's Q&A, told ABC radio listeners in Melbourne this morning that by Monday his show had received 1000 angry emails for Senator Stephen Conroy, one of his guests this evening. The topic of those emails? Mandatory ISP filtering of course.
With such a huge response I'm ...
Posted in Internet Censorship | 11 Comments »
Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
According to a post on the WikiLeaks twitter page, police have raided the home of the WikiLeaks.de domain owner over 'censorship lists'. Details are limited and as such I do not know the origin of the lists which are alleged to be the reason for the raid.
Update: WikiLeaks has uploaded ...
Posted in Internet Censorship | 5 Comments »
Tuesday, March 24th, 2009
I'll be live blogging the NewMatilda.com The Tangled Web forum on Internet filtering this evening. Come back to this page from 6PM AEST/Brissy Time (or 7PM AEDT) to read my coverage. Speaking at the forum is Senator Scott Ludlam, Irene Graham and Nic Suzor.
Update: You can now replay my coverage ...
Posted in Events, Internet Censorship | 7 Comments »
Friday, March 20th, 2009
WikiLeaks has released a copy of what is alleged to be the current ACMA blacklist. This list is dated March 18 and includes 1170 URLs, including the now high-profile AbortionTV page and the Wikileaks page containing the Danish blacklist.
URLs belonging to Betfair, The Peaceful Pill Handbook, Redtube, AbbyWinters, IShotMyself, TheHun ...
Posted in Internet Censorship | 26 Comments »
Friday, March 20th, 2009
I contacted Queensland's three major political players this month to find out their position on introducing an R18+ classification for computer games. The results are not surprising.
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Lawrence Springborg is firm: LNP 'have have no intention of changing the current laws'. The Borg says 'Games and ...
Posted in Game Censorship | 13 Comments »
