Thursday wrap up: Henson aftermath, NZ on filtering, ALP form letters
With so much of my time devoted to filtering, I haven’t had much of a chance to post about all the other stuff going on. Here’s a wrap up: Art exhibitions: At a SCAG meeting today in Brisbane, NSW Attorney-General John Hatzistergos asked censorship ministers to ‘clarify and streamline the National Classification Scheme as it...
Latest censored adult DVDs
Refused-Classification.com writes that Australian Rosie Finnish Erotica #3 has been cut to meet an X18+ classification after being refused classification back in September. Double Vision 2 has also been cut to get an X18+ rating, while Killer Grip #4 has been refused classification. Why? R-C doesn’t know and to tell you the truth, nor do...
GetUp! one step closer to entering filtering fight?
People have been asking for some time now whether GetUp! will be entering the ring in the fight against net censorship down under. Well today we may be that one step closer to knowing. GetUp! has published a story from Colin Jacobs of EFA and that’s a good sign they are interested. In his article...
Mark Newton’s meeting with Kate Ellis about filtering
Mark Newton has recapped his meeting this Monday with Kate Ellis. Read it here. “Ms. Ellis had, by now, worked out that I wasn’t there to be persuaded by her, and asked for something she could take to the Minister that he could work with. That was actually “stage 2″ on my meeting plan, so...
Kevin Rudd wants turbocharged broadband for the kids
Our PM is a little confused with what the party plan is. He wants turbocharged education and high speed broadband for our kids. Here’s what he’s been running around saying today: “Mr Murdoch is right, a 21st century economy demands a 21st century education system,” he [Rudd] said. “An education revolution is our response, investing...
Filter vendors smiling, ready to cash in
Like vultures hovering over the soon-to-be-dead body of Australia’s Internet industry, filter vendors are lining up at doors of ISPs around the country ready to cash in. According to Colin Jacobs at NoCleanFeed.com, Communications Day (subscription required) reports today that ISPs are already being lobbied by filtering companies and that small providers will be hit...
Australian Family Association happy to block 3% of innocent websites
The Australian Family Association yesterday issued a press release describing the 3% false positive rate of one of the recently trialed Tasmanian filters as “encouraging” and a “great improvement” on the current situation. That’s right, the AFA believes blocking access to 30,000 innocent websites out of every 1 million is encouraging. How is banning the...
An open letter to Australian Women Online about their support of ISP filtering
Those that support mandatory ISP filtering (there’s one or two) often do so because they simply don’t understand how filtering works and believe it’s a solution to protecting our children from the risks they face when using the Internet. There’s also those that do so because they would benefit financially from filtering being mandated and...
Three ISP heads say filtering won’t work
Telstra Media’s Justin Milne, Internode’s Simon Hackett and iiNet’s Michael Malone all have their say on ISP filtering in this video. They detail technical, legal and ethical reasons why ISP-level filtering won’t work. Three majors sinking their teeth in. Ouch. I do have one small criticism though and it’s to do with Michael Malone’s comment...
EFA launches R18+ game classification campaign
EFA has just launched their new R18+ for games campaign website, R18games.com. An R18+ classification would require the unanimous support of all Attorneys-General, and in the past moves to change the current classification have been blocked on the vote of a single state Attorney-General. EFA is now sponsoring a campaign to have the R18+ classification...
Morning wrap up: Mark Newton’s opinion piece
Check out Mark Newton’s article The Perplexing Internet Debate. In it Mark writes: In the past, politicians have been able to monopolise the debate by having disproportionate access to media. Not so for Mr Conroy, who has been so thoroughly discredited by the controversy that his press office has refused to comment to media outlets...
Conroy chucks tantrum as opposition to filtering increases
The Age writes that the ALP’s mandatory filtering scheme now faces a concerted backlash by the internet industry and opposition senators. Conroy has hit back though! He says he will accept some debate (yep some) around what should and should not be on the internet and that he’s not a wowser. Rewind. “Accept some debate“?...
