Archive for the ‘Internet Censorship’ Category
Monday, August 18th, 2008
Colin from EFA has written an article about the Government's filtering plan for the MacTalk.com.au community that would be worth showing to any friends you have still unsure of what Stephen Conroy has in store for Australia.
It covers many of the problems that exist with the plan, but none more ...
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Monday, August 11th, 2008
Hey, I'm sure I've heard this closer to home: Internet censorship is necessary in order to protect children.
OLYMPIC Games organisers claimed on Saturday that the controversial decision to block Internet sites was taken to protect Chinese youngsters.
Asked why sites such as Free Tibet and those covering the Tiananmen ...
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Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
Pornographic websites won't be the only sites blacklisted in Australia if mandatory ISP filtering is introduced. Your blog might be as well.
The recent trial of ISP filters in Tasmania showed that at best 1 out of every 100 websites were incorrectly identified and blocked. That's bad news for bloggers. The ...
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Sunday, August 3rd, 2008
It's been nearly a week since Conroy hailed the Tassie ISP filtering trial a success. Here's an overview of what other bloggers are saying about it:
'The mainstream media in Australia has been outraged by the Internet censorship in China, but seems to be paying no attention to its rise in ...
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Sunday, August 3rd, 2008
When common contributors to youth crime like drug and alcohol abuse, poverty, and family dysfunction seemingly become impossible to combat, what can those responsible for fixing it do? In the Victoria Police's case, you take a tired and unproven old excuse from the 90s and rewrap it: you blame the ...
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Friday, August 1st, 2008
Network engineer Glen Turner has voiced his concerns about the Tassie filtering trial. In the comments section of my earlier post, Glen says a critical flaw exists in the trial's testbed design:
'80-90% of Australia?s Internet traffic goes to the USA, a considerable distance and a large amount of latency. This ...
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Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
The Government is seeking feedback about their online safety initiatives (including filtering) at NetAlert.gov.au. The survey will take you no more than 60 seconds to complete, so head on over and let your voice be heard.
Cheers to Bob for the tip off.
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Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
Senator Conroy's office could spin a thread of gold from a lump of shit, I'll give them that. But if you've read the Tasmanian filtering report, it probably didn't take long before you noticed red flags. I decided to compare the report to what Mr Conroy says in his press ...
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Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
It's a shame that some major news organisations were happy to run a rehash of Senator Conroy's can-do-no-wrong press release about the Tassie filtering trial report. Thankfully, not all media was so accepting.
In Crikey, Stilgherrian points out that even though the report found 'most' filters achieved over a 92% success ...
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Monday, July 28th, 2008
Just in: Senator Conroy has released a report on the Tasmanian filtering trial. Download the report as a PDF here.
Update 29/07/08 2PM: I'll post tonight about some of the problem findings in the report that aren't making mainstream media.
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