Optus will participate in Internet filtering trial
Journalists (and other reliable sources) on Twitter are reporting that Senator Conroy’s office has announced Optus will participate in the DBCDE ISP filtering trial. A media release was emailed from Conroy’s office this afternoon, but has not been published on his site yet. Update (3:42PM): Press release published on minister’s site. Here are excerpts from...
R18+ games discussion paper coming soon
Finally! The long awaited discussion paper on introducing an adult classification for video games will soon be released for public input. It won’t be released by state and territory Attorney’s-General though. They couldn’t agree on contents of the paper (no surprise). Instead the office of the Commonwealth Minister of Home Affairs, Bob Debus, has stepped...
Necrovision banned
As State and Territory Attorney’s-General meet in Canberra for SCAG, GameSpot has confirmed that the upcoming PC game Necrovision has been refused classification for excessive violence. This is the first game of 2009 that the Australian Classification Board has banned. GameSpot writes: The Board specifically called out excessive blood spray and the ability to continue...
Coke Zero ad gives Australian Family Association a sore tooth
Coca-Cola has voluntarily taken an ad for Coke Zero off the air which features a fantasy relationship breakup (for many no doubt) starring pole dancers and scantily-clad women. Aussie media blog Mumbrella writes that the Australian Family Association has labeled the ad sexist and that the Advertising Standards Bureau (ASB) has received 45 complaints about...
You won’t see this Lady GaGa music clip on Video Hits
Let’s have some fun, this beat is sick I wanna take a ride on your disco stick Don’t think too much just bust that kick I wanna take a ride on your disco stick Lyrics like these and sexually-charged visuals is why channel Ten’s in-house censors have rated Lady GaGa’s music video for her song...
Five things I learned from the Insight episode on filtering
1) Conroy isn’t backpedaling, he’s reengineering rhetoric: He now claims his plan is to block only material which would be classified as Refused Classification (RC). Well ‘almost exclusively’ Refused Classification — In typical Conroy fashion he has left himself a backdoor with enough room to park a Hummer-sized load of as much ‘unwanted’ content as...
Conroy sacked…
Well at least according to Whirlpool. Or if you believe ZDNet he’s still the minister but has scrapped the filter. Visit Overclockers though and you’ll see it’s already in action. Heck, I’m just glad we’re finally getting net licenses.
