Conroy’s Office: Groups opposing filtering hold extreme views
Tech Wired Australia has conducted an interview with Senator Conroy’s media contact, Tim Marshall. I suggest you listen (unless you suffer from high blood pressure). Update: Transcript here. Marshall accuses lobby groups who oppose mandatory ISP filtering of having extreme views and not having too much interest in the facts. Pot, kettle, black I know....
Mandatory filtering gets international coverage
Welcome readers of The Inquirer. You probably came here after clicking that strange picture of a large red rock on the side of The Inquirer’s website and are now wondering what on earth is going on? To put it simply, the Australian Government intends to censor Internet access down under. They are doing this despite...
NSW schools block NoCleanFeed.com?
Please read the updates at the bottom of this post. Students and teachers at schools in NSW trying to access EFA’s anti ISP filtering website NoCleanFeed.com might not see what they expected today. A screenshot which shows NoCleanFeed.com in a possible blocked state has been uploaded by a Whirlpool user attempting to access the site...
Public discussion on censorship at UNSW – 16 October
Margaret Pomeranz will join copyright lawyer Raena Lea-Shannon to discuss censorship and film classification at UNSW tomorrow, 16 October. They’ll be focusing on the movie Mysterious Skin (R18+) which was described as a “how-to manual of sexual abuse” by some family groups as well as SA A-G Michael Atkinson. The OFLC didn’t agree. They found...
Filters mandatory for all Australians: DBCDE
Computer World is the first media outlet to question the Government’s ISP filtering opt-out policy. Two weeks ago Internode network engineer Mark Newton confirmed there would be two black lists and adults would only be able to opt-out from the list containing inappropriate content for children. They would not be able to opt-out of the...
Youth, tech and porn: ABC2 13th October
Tonight’s Hack Half Hour on ABC2 looks at how technology (aka the Internet) has changed the way we use and access pornography. Tonight we hear from connoisseurs of porn, and people who hate it. We’ll meet people who film their own, and others who’ve had to seek counselling because of it. We follow this debate...
Ban sexy ads: Catholics
Catholic parishioners are circulating a petition to ban ‘sexualised’ billboards and outdoor advertisements which demean women and expose children to inappropriate content. It comes after one of the petition’s organisers saw an on-car-advertisement for a carwash featuring a woman in a suggestive pose. Hose between legs perhaps? SMH writes: Matthew Restall and Bridget Spinks have...
Fred Nile sandwiches Gay Mardi Gras and Bill Henson
There’s a trend amongst those calling for Bill Henson’s blood to link the artist’s photography to a slew of other unrelated issues in hope of validating their argument. Be it rape, raunchy t-shirts and music, or in Fred Nile’s case, ‘Homosexual Mardi Gras.’ “I congratulate his main defender, David Marr, for his consistency, because as...
PG porn at News.com.au
At around 3PM today this video was embedded in a News.com.au article called PG porn video made by Gilmore Girls star — a story about a humorous video made for people who like porn but are offended by sex. Above the video was a warning that it contained adult themes. After watching though, I didn’t...
Media fueling Henson fire
You’ll be pleased to know the media is shying away from sensible debate over the Henson case. Helen Brien writes in SMH Heckler this morning: Here we go again. Bill Bloody Henson and his “art”. I am damn sick of it and I am damn sick of the people who will always defend his photos...
Wrap up of David Marr’s Brisbane talk
He’s been labeled an apologist and cheerleader for Bill Henson, but it’s fair to say David Marr’s insight into Australia’s most recent underage art saga doesn’t come close to being matched by any other journalist in this country. Marr’s access to Henson and the families involved puts him in a unique position to lend much...
Reviews of ‘The Henson Case’
Turns out David Marr’s The Henson Case was released today, not November. Early days, but here’s some reviews/opinions: Peter Craven- The Age ‘The Henson Case does not, for instance, constitute a savage and explicit denunciation of the anti-pedophile campaigner Hetty Johnston, who thinks that to take a photo of a young girl with her clothes...
