Conroy misleads Senate in more ways than one
Senator Scott Ludlam’s showdown with Senator Conroy last week during Estimates (PDF) was a welcome sign that the opposition had stopped sitting on their hands when it came to filtering. However, as Mark Newton pointed out last Thursday evening, Conroy’s answers to Ludlam’s questions about other international filtering examples were rather misleading. Tonight Dale Clapperton...
Where’s your MP stand on filtering? New website keeps score
A wiki has been set up to record which members of the Senate and House of Representatives are in favour of and against mandatory ISP filtering. The site relies on us to submit the responses we receive from our honorable representatives so get cracking here.
Internet access on NSW student laptops restricted to whitelist
To me a ‘digital education revolution’ conjures up images of children being doused in terabytes of knowledge, but for the NSW Department of Education it means controlling what senior students are able to access on the Internet using a highly restrictive whitelist of pre-approved websites. I think mine is better. According to ZDNet.com.au, laptops to...
Can a clean feed be introduced without legislation?
Dale Clapperton asks a very important question: Can Labor implement a ‘clean feed’ without legislation? He writes: To get any legislation through the Senate at the moment, Labor require the support of either the Coalition, or all seven of the other Senators (five Greens, plus Steve Fielding and Nick Xenophon). If the Coalition oppose the...
Trials already a foregone conclusion, presumption is filtering will not work: Nick Minchin
They speak. Shadow Comm’s Minister Nick Minchin is ‘appalled’ that a Conroy staffer tried to suppress Mark Newton’s critical comments on the Government’s mandatory filtering plan. Minchin told Computer World he’s appalled that a member of Senator Conroy’s staff is apparently trying to bully the IIA over this matter. He also says he’ll wait for...
The high price of Internet filtering
Welcome readers of ABC Online. You’ve probably come here after reading my article The High Price of Internet Filtering (check it out if you’re one of my regulars) and are now looking for more information on the Goverment’s ISP filtering plan. Here’s some of my posts on the topic to get you started: Latest 24/Oct:...
Australian Government’s attempt to gag ISP filter critic backfires
Breaking: SMH has revealed how Belinda Dennett, a policy adviser for Senator Conroy, tried to ‘bully’ Internode Network Engineer Mark Newton into keeping quiet with his criticisms of the Government’s clean feed proposal. Newton wrote on Whirlpool earlier this week that he had received personal attacks from Conroy’s office, but didn’t mention what they were....
Greens Senator quizzes Conroy on filtering
If you’re up for a bit of late night reading (or maybe that’s now early morning), check out the October 20 Hansard for Environment, Communications and the Arts (Complete PDF / Partial HTML) — Greens Senator Scott Ludlam questions Conroy and his team about filtering. The juicy bits (or the ‘horrifyingly bad parts’ as Simon...
Turnbull to speak on clean feed
Here’s some news we’ve been waiting on. Malcolm Turnbull has written on Twitter that he will soon respond to queries about mandatory ISP filtering. See Turbull’s Twitter feed here. Hopefully Turnbull will shed light on where the Lib’s stand on filtering within the next 24 hours. I’ll keep you updated. Turnbull joined Twitter last week....
Interview: Internode’s Mark Newton talks filtering
Ben Grubb (who copped a bit of flack for his interview with Tim Marshall) has interviewed Internode network engineer Mark Newton. Mark is the guy who confirmed our suspicions that there wouldn’t be any way to completely opt-out of ISP filtering. In this rather in depth interview, Mark notes that ISPs not taking part in...
Barnaby Joyce concerned pornography is encouraging paedophilia
I’m not going to waste much breath on Barnaby Joyce, but he’s concerned pornography available in petrol stations and corner stores is encouraging paedophilia. I know. I know. Another ripper from the Barnaby School of No Evidence. Senator Julian McGauran also said shops are selling illegal, explicit magazines by disguising them in opaque packaging. McGauran...
Video: Angry Aussie’s guide to mandatory ISP filtering
If you’re not sure what the deal is with the Government’s Net censorship plan or you don’t know what you can do to stop it, Angry Aussie has a great 10 minute video lesson on YouTube. Watch below or share it with your friends who think Internet censorship only happens in places like China.
