Poker, betting websites hit by Australian blacklist
Websites which allow users to play poker online and provide playing tips are included on a list alleged to be the ACMA blacklist. The blacklist includes the URLs of at least five poker playing websites currently in operation. Also included is the international betting service Betfair.com. Betfair CEO Andrew Twaits is outraged. He had this...
Legal adult websites blacklisted: AbbyWinters and The Hun banned
Update June 16, 2009: Looking for news about the Abby Winters – G Media police raid? Click here. One of Australia’s largest owned and operated adult websites, AbbyWinters.com, is included on a list alleged to be the ACMA blacklist of prohibited websites. Also banned is the TheHun.com, one of the web’s longest running and most...
ACMA Blacklist leaked, contains legal websites
What is claimed to be a copy of the Australian Communications and Media Authority’s (ACMA) secret blacklist of prohibited websites has been leaked on the whistle-blower website WikiLeaks. I can confirm the list includes a range of legal websites, including that of a political group supporting euthanasia and a popular Australian owned adult website to...
URL of banned WikiLeaks page published on DBCDE blog
A web page on Wikileaks that was recently blacklisted by ACMA because it contains a copy of Denmark’s Internet blacklist is also published on the defunct DBCDE blog. (Update 4:45PM: DBCDE has restricted access to the page with a log in form. Link to cached version added). That’s fine with me as it’s a good...
ACMA blacklists WikiLeaks page
It has been revealed that ACMA has blacklisted a page on the whistle-blower website WikiLeaks.org that contains a leaked copy of the Danish blacklist of banned websites. Like the anti-abortion page recently blacklisted by ACMA, this page was also submitted to the media authority for investigation by a Whirlpool user. The complainant, ‘Tardis42′, believes there...
Liberal MP wants drinking board game banned
Liberal MP Steve Irons wants a board game that he says encourages alcohol abuse banned from sale in Australia. The game in question, Pass-out, has players travel around the game board taking drinks and reciting tongue twisters. It’s been around in board game form since at least 1962. But Irons says ‘In a society now...
Public forum on Internet regulation in Brisbane, March 24: Senator Ludlam speaking
NewMatilda is holding a series of public forums about the internet regulation debate in Australia, with the first to be held in Brisbane on March 24, 2009. The forums which are also set for Adelaide, Sydney and Melbourne in coming weeks explore the ethical, social and political questions raised by government regulation of the Internet....
Filtering wrap up: Background Briefing’s filtering report, Stephen Fry and Scott Ludlam
ACMA’s decision to issue Whirlpool’s host Bulletproof Networks with a link take-down notice last week was big news and rightfully so. If the Rudd government is already attempting to censor free speech, it doesn’t take much to imagine the severe consequences of having a mandatory filter in place. However, it wasn’t the only net filtering...
ACMA forces Whirlpool to remove link to banned anti-abortion web page
ACMA has issued Whirlpool’s web host Bulletproof Networks with a notice to remove a link to this anti-abortion web page, blacklisted by the regulator in January. At risk of their host being hit with $11,000 fines per day, Whirlpool has complied. This comes as Senator Stephen Conroy urged those opposed to the Government’s mandatory ISP...
SBS Insight want to talk to you about mandatory filtering
Insight on SBS is preparing a show exploring the issue of cybersafety and the government’s plans to regulate the Internet. Please contact Anne Worthington on anne.worthington @ sbs.com.au or 02 94303826 if you feel you’d be a good addition to the debate.
Radio station under investigation for publishing corporal punishment video
According to Monday night’s episode of MediaWatch on ABC, ACMA is pursuing a formal complaint against radio station 6PR for publishing a video of a caning which took place in Malaysia approximately four years ago. The 6PR website warns readers with two warning messages before they watch the corporal punishment footage, but MediaWatch host Jonathan...
Freeview TV ad parody disappears from YouTube
Update March 10 2009: Google Australia’s Head of Corporate Communications and Public Affairs, Rob Shilkin, has revealed that YouTube received a DMCA notice from lawyers acting on behalf of Freeview Australia Limited to remove the video. Freeview Marketing Manager, Liz Howarth, yesterday denied they had made a complaint. More information at Magaret Simons’ blog and...
