Archive for the ‘Internet Censorship’ Category

Classification Board responds to small breasts ban

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

Important Update, 01/02/10: The Classification Board has confirmed that a person's appearance is used when they determine the apparent age of a model. The ACB's Director refused to comment on specifics about breast size. Read more. The Australian Classification Board (ACB) has responded to accusations by The Australian Sex Party that ...

Australia bans small breasts

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010

The Australian Sex Party (ASP) said Wednesday that the Australian Classification Board (ACB) is now banning depictions of small-breasted women in adult publications and films. It comes just a week after it was found that material with depictions of females ejaculating during orgasm are now Refused Classification and Australian Customs ...

Great Australian Internet Blackout: Early numbers are in

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010

As many of you know, hundreds of websites turned black this Australia Day (and many will remain so for the rest of the week) to protest the Government's plan to censor the Internet. It might not have been as popular as beach BBQs or beer and the cricket, but initial ...

Inadvertently exposed: the ALP’s obsession with universal censorship

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009

by Jon Seymour When you are a Government of a Western nation about to introduce a mandatory censorship regime unlike anything in the else in the Western world it is a good idea to try to play up comparisons with social democracies like Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland and our Commonwealth ...

National net censorship protests: January 30 2010

Sunday, December 20th, 2009

Protests against mandatory Internet censorship will be held Australia wide on Saturday January 30, 2010. A Facebook page for the event has been set up, with over 1700 people already confirmed as attending. Specific protest locations are still to be announced, but one is planned for each capital city. I'll update ...

Net Censorship: Mark Newton talks to Sky News

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

Sky News Business channel speaks to network engineer Mark Newton about mandatory Internet censorship. Listen here. Sky is also running a poll to find out whether you support the Government's policy of ISP level Internet filtering.

Australian Christian Lobby urges supporters to thank Conroy for ‘protecting kids’

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009

[caption id="attachment_2246" align="alignright" width="194" caption="Jim Wallace"][/caption] Managing Director of the Australian Christian Lobby, Jim Wallace, has urged his members to write to Senator Conroy and thank him for 'protecting kids' with the Government's Internet filtering plan. Wallace says members of the sex trade and civil libertarians are violently opposed to the plan ...

Report on live ISP filtering trial released

Tuesday, December 15th, 2009

Senator Conroy has released the long awaited report on the ISP filtering live pilot. Read it here. Minister's Press Release EFA's Response List of media stories More to come.

ISPs put hands up to play censor? Majors may go at filtering alone

Monday, December 14th, 2009

Details are sketchy, but Communications Day has reported that Telstra, Optus, iiNet and Primus will cooperatively introduce a system to block a blacklist of Refused Classification (RC) websites. Commsday reports that the cooperative effort to block a blacklist of RC websites is 'an attempt to combat child pornography' but at this ...

Report on New Zealand net filtering trial

Sunday, October 4th, 2009

New Zealand blogger Thomas Beagle has obtained a copy of the NZ Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) report (PDF) on their trial of an Internet filtering system (in this case the Netclean Whitebox). Beagle writes: The second half of it [the report] is more interesting as it has some results from the ...