Archive for the ‘Internet Censorship’ Category
Thursday, June 25th, 2009
Asher Moses at The Sydney Morning Herald reports that a spokesperson for Senator Conroy has confirmed that ISP filtering will be used to block access to downloadable games, flash-based web games and sites which sell physical copies of games that do not meet the MA15+ standard, the highest game classification ...
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Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
The director of G Media, Garion Hall, has issued a statement about a police raid on his company this week.
Hall said yesterday morning (Monday 15 June, 2009) Victoria Police acted on a warrant to search the premises of the adult web business AbbyWinters.com. The raid was instigated by a tabloid ...
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Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
G Media, the Australian company behind one of the web's most popular adult websites, AbbyWinters.com, has been raided by Victoria police and it's owner arrested. No charges have been laid.
According to The Herald Sun, computers containing footage of women allegedly performing explicit sex acts were seized by police because they ...
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Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
Senator Nick Minchin is taking initiative in his fight against Labor's mandatory ISP filtering policy and unlike his opposition in the Senate, his message is getting stronger. Minchin's latest press release draws attention to China's move to bulk-up it's censorship system by resorting to PC installed filters and he asks ...
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Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
A Freedom of Information request has revealed that the DBCDE has not set criteria to determine if the live ISP filtering trial is a success. According to FOI assessment documents, the outcomes of the Pilot will inform the Government's decision on the ISP filtering framework and 'therefore there are not ...
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Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
After being as indecisive as a teenage girl choosing what to wear on prom night, Senator Conroy has settled on what classification category will be banned by under the mandatory filter (the one you can't opt out of). According to IT News, Conroy's office stated that 'mandatory ISP-level filtering will ...
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Tuesday, May 26th, 2009
Is Senator Conroy feeling the heat? In response to questions from Senator Minchin during estimates about how the Government would impose mandatory ISP filtering, Senator Conroy said one option is that it could be on a voluntary basis where ISPs could voluntarily agree to introduce it. But wait, isn't ...
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Monday, May 25th, 2009
In response to Senate questions, ACMA admitted this evening that their current blacklist contains only 32% child abuse material. During a Senate Standing Legislation Committee for Environment, Communications & the Arts, they revealed that the list contains 51% refused classification material (which includes child abuse material), meaning the other 49% ...
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Sunday, May 17th, 2009
A screenshot of The Chaser's War On Everything website:
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Tuesday, May 12th, 2009
Funding for the DBCDE's cyber-safety plan (PDF, page 42) which includes mandatory ISP filtering remains relatively untouched in the latest Federal Budget.
Flick to page 22 of the 2009-10 DBCDE PBS 02 Section 1 (PDF, 139.7 kb) and you'll see filtering remains part of the Government's plan. Under initiatives continuing from ...
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