Archive for the ‘Censorship News Bites’ Category
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
A quick list of upcoming TV shows about censorship:
Insight: The Naked Eye
SBS 7:30PM
Tuesday, 24 June, 2008
Jenny Brockie brings the Bill Henson debate to our TV screens. Guests include The Incredible Hetty, Tony Bond from the Art Gallery of NSW, Tamara Winkoff from NAVA, Connie Petrill, and model, Zoe Bailey.
Jennifer Byrne ...
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Police from the WA Major Fraud Squad have raided the offices of the The Sunday Times in Perth after a complaint was made by the Department of Premier and Cabinet. According to News Ltd, Sixteen officers executed a search warrant looking for documents connected with an article written by reporter ...
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
Attention: This blog post about Stephanie Rice would probably be banned to Australians if the Federal Government's planned mandatory Internet censorship scheme or 'Clean Feed' is introduced in 2008/2009.
Stay on top of the issue and make sure you aren't censored by subscribing to my RSS feed here or ...
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
The Australian Olympic Committee has confirmed Australian athletes competing in Beijing will be entitled to speak on any issue, including human rights.
However, all athletes will be required to sign an agreement asking that they only comment to the media about their own events, prospects and performances. This agreement has been ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
The Melbourne Queer Film Festival (MQFF) cannot screen their special presentation, The Erotic Films of Peter de Rome, at this year's festival. The package of shorts (currently classified X18+ in Australia) were denied exemption from classification by the OFLC even though they would have been shown to adults only.
"The MQFF ...
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Thursday, January 17th, 2008
Stilgherrian's latest article in Crikey explains why Child Wise?s Bernadette McMenamin got hammered for her comments in The Australian: Geeks get angry when their knowledge isn?t respected. Too right. There's a little more to it though as Stil explains:
Two completely different problems are conflated. One, preventing distribution of already-illegal child ...
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Tuesday, January 15th, 2008
Mark Pesce sums up in a neat article what much of the web communities views on mandatory filtering have been over the last two weeks.
He had some great points of his own to add:
Last May, Wang Guoqing, Vice Minister of the State Council of Information, the man who oversees the ...
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Monday, January 14th, 2008
Computer World and PC World (both part of IDG) have published part one of a series of articles looking at mandatory filtering in Australia. The first, Why Content Filtering Will Fail, highlights a number of concerns that all of us have, especially ISPs.
A director of a small Sydney-based ISP, who ...
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Monday, January 7th, 2008
New Zealand company, Watchdog, says that filtering out child pornography at ISP level in Australia is possible, but admits that the Australian Government's attempts to rate websites for violent content and other objectionable material will be extremely difficult. Watchdog currently provides a filtered ISP service to NZ and Australian customers, ...
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