Net Censorship: Mark Newton talks to Sky News
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’
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 and it’s important Senator Conroy hears from them. Of...
Report on live ISP filtering trial released
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
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 stage it remains unclear...
Report on New Zealand net filtering trial
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 DIA’s testing. This...
Video: Fort Australia forum on Internet censorship
Video of the Fort Australia Forum, Cyberhate? Censorship on the Internet, held Tuesday September 8th. 2009 is now available to watch. The forum was held in the Jubilee Room Parliament House Sydney and speakers include Fiona Patton, Geordie Guy, Jim Wallace and Angela Conway. Time guide: Ms. Fiona Patton – Convenor of the Australian Sex...
Conroy spreads more misinformation as PM and ACMA websites attacked
The government’s response to website attacks by ‘Anonymous’ this evening highlight why such illegal actions do nothing to help the fight against net censorship, with Senator Conroy telling the media that the people responsible are misguided and that the proposed filter would only be used to block illegal content. The Minister for Communications told the...
Illingworth charges dropped
In case you haven’t heard, all charges against Chris Illingworth were dropped Wednesday following a review by the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions. What a relief. Illingworth was facing up to 20 years of jail on child-abuse charges for posting a video of a baby being swung around. In an exclusive for SMH, Asher Moses...
Video in Illingworth case rated MA15+
The video at the centre of a criminal case brought against Queensland resident Chris Illingworth, which shows a baby being swung around in the arms of an adult, has been classified as just MA15+ by the Australian Classification Board. Asher Moses at SMH writes: The Australian Communications and Media Authority, responding to a complaint about...
Is Conroy’s filter cooked and ready to be served?
Senator Nick Minchin has been quiet lately, but today he made up for it when he blindsided Senator Conroy in the media, demanding he end his mandatory filtering farce. It wasn’t exactly the most daring exchange of words, but it’s the response he managed to yank out of the Minister for Communications that really sheds...
ACMA blacklists Iran protest video
Chris from Orzeszek Blog has revealed that ACMA has blacklisted three videos documenting violence in Iran which show the death of Neda Agha-Soltan, killed during the 2009 Iranian election protests. Today Chris received notice from ACMA that the content has been classified R18+. Because it was not behind a restricted access system, it is prohibited...
Googling sex: Adventures in tabloid journalism online
by Geordie Guy Today’s Online Opinion features Abigail Bray, a post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Western Australia. Her article, available at http://onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=9344, unfortunately doesn’t seem to draw on what we’d assume is a depth of experience and qualification. She writes how a “couple of weeks ago”, which I’ll presume is some sort of...
