Tech Wired interview EFA’s Colin Jacobs
Ben Grubb has interviewed EFA’s Colin Jacobs. Colin heads up the NoCleanFeed campaign for EFA and you’ve no doubt heard him on the radio today if you’ve been listening. Listen here.
Video: ISP filtering and protecting children online
One of my regular readers, Sean The Blogonaut, has posted part one of his three part video series on ISP filtering and protecting children online. As Sean stresses, education and policing are the keys to protecting children, not filtering. Watch below or here.
Conroy’s office responds to filtering ‘fears’
Breaking: More BS from Conroy’s office. Read here. Sunrise: How does the senator respond to accusations by Sunrise viewers that this is a threat to free speech/democracy? Conroy’s Office: This is not an argument about free speech. As I have already said, we have laws about the sort of material that is acceptable across all...
Video: EFA interview on Channel Seven’s Morning Show
Here’s Dale Clapperton’s interview with the Morning Show on Channel 7 form this morning. Also: Sunrise video here (including phone poll). You’ve got to watch this. Kochie has no clue.
Comic: Have Your Bunny Repeatedly
A comic strip thanks to First Dog On The Moon, Crikey and EFA: http://www.haveyourbunnyrepeatedly.com/
A letter against filtering from a concerned Christian mother
This letter from a concerned Christian parent is a quality read. While Senator Conroy would like to make out only illegal porn peddlers and terrorists are opposed to net censorship, it’s letters like these that show no matter what your religion, race, age or sex, mandatory ISP filtering will have a negative effect on you...
McDonalds free WiFi to be filtered
McDonalds new free in store WiFi service will be filtered according to Australian IT. They’ll be deploying Earthwave’s Clean Pipes service to offer a ‘Family Friendly’ and secure net service. Makes sense given Macca’s is a private family friendly restaurant. Earthwave chief executive Carlo Minassian says: “The policy includes more than 100 pre-defined categories, as...
Big list of No Aussie Net Censorship posters
Anti Internet censorship posters are popping up everywhere. Print em, stick em, put em on your web page, get the word out. Got one I don’t have? Email or Skype me. If you created one of these and I haven’t credited you, please let me know.
Interview with Mark Newton
Network Performancing Daily has Interviewed Mark Newton about filtering. Not a great deal of new information, but it’s worth listening to or reading just to stay up to date with what’s happening. Newton: ‘So I’d make the comment – and this is – I guess – bringing things back to the center a little bit:...
Conroy Vs Mark Pesce on filtering: ABC Media Report, Thurs
Stephen Conroy and Mark Pesce will have their say (separately recorded interviews) on ISP filtering this Thursday morning on ABC Radio National’s Media Report. Tune in at 8:30AM, 8PM or download the podcast. It’s a shame Pesce isn’t in the same studio as Conroy — He’d eat the senator alive. Update 30 Oct: Podcast is...
EFA filtering updates on Twitter
Electronic Frontiers Australia is now on Twitter. Follow @efa_oz. What’s Twitter? It’s a simple service that let’s you stay on top of what’s happening with your friends, or in this case, what’s happening with filtering and EFA. Or as Wikipedia puts it: Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users...
Ban X-Rated porn for everyone, including adults: Family First
Breaking: Asher Moses at SMH writes that Family First Senator Steve Fielding wants hardcore pornography and fetish material blocked under the Government’s plans to filter the Internet. Asked to specify the categories of content that Senator Fielding would like blocked by the mandatory first tier, a Family First spokeswoman indicated the party would want X-rated...
