Archive for the ‘Internet Censorship’ Category
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 ...
Posted in Censorship Policy, Film Censorship, Internet Censorship | 36 Comments »
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 ...
Posted in Film Censorship, Internet Censorship | 176 Comments »
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 ...
Posted in Fighting Censorship, Internet Censorship | 1 Comment »
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 ...
Posted in Internet Censorship | 9 Comments »
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 ...
Posted in Fighting Censorship, Internet Censorship | 5 Comments »
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.
Posted in Internet Censorship | 4 Comments »
Wednesday, December 16th, 2009
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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 ...
Posted in Internet Censorship | 21 Comments »
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.
Posted in Internet Censorship | 4 Comments »
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 ...
Posted in Internet Censorship | 4 Comments »
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 ...
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