Archive for the ‘Internet Censorship’ Category
Wednesday, November 26th, 2008
The DBCDE has published answers to 23 questions submitted by ISP's about their live filtering pilot. Considering the size of the task proposed and the impact it would have on ISPs, DBCDE's response is rather barebones. Here's a selection:
1. If this Pilot is run as a voluntary opt in ...
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Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
The Greens announced their opposition to filtering (or close to it) this morning and now the Liberals Shadow Comms Minister Nick Minchin has issued a press release labeling the Government's plan as misguided and deeply unpopular. It reads:
Senator Minchin said nobody of decency disagreed about the importance of working to ...
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Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
The Greens will not support the Government's net censorship proposal according to News.com.au. Bob Brown told ABC TV "We're very, very concerned that there's going to be a unnecessary clamp down on the internet and it has to be watched." He said Ludlam is working very hard with community groups ...
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Sunday, November 23rd, 2008
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LogiPik, a PHP image filter for websites which supposedly uses a number of advanced detection layers to accurately classify a pictures level of appropriateness, thinks this picture of Stephen Conroy is porn. Actually, of the five photographs of Conroy I tried, ...
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Sunday, November 23rd, 2008
I'm told by some of my readers that the 7:30 Report is taking a look at the filtering debacle once again this week. (First thought to be Monday 24 November 2008 on ABC1, but new info suggests it might be the Thursday night show).
Let's hope it's a better report ...
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Saturday, November 22nd, 2008
Guest post by Jon Seymour
In a year or two from now Australians may wake up to find themselves living in a country unique amongst Western democracies - a country that has imposed mandatory filtering on all residential ISP feeds. It is unlikely that most will notice anything unusual about that ...
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Saturday, November 22nd, 2008
Jay from Fingerpuppetmafia.com has created a detailed mind map of the current ISP filtering plan. It's available here in Flash, and here as an image. An updated section mapping Clive Hamilton's involvement has also been created.
Jay says it's incomplete, so please offer feedback.
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Friday, November 21st, 2008
The NSW Parliamentary Library Research Service has put together a briefing on the government's filtering proposal which is available to download as a PDF here. It reads:
At this stage, the Rudd Government proposal would restrict blanket mandatory ISP filtering to the illegal RC content, based on the ACMA’s ‘black list’ ...
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Thursday, November 20th, 2008
Guest post by Danu Poyner
There was a lively debate about mandatory internet filtering on ABC Radio National's 'Australia Talks' program Tuesday night. While those who have been following the issue closely will recognise much of the conversation, the debate was interesting because it covered new ground in certain areas. Specifically, ...
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Thursday, November 20th, 2008
Irene Graham has overhauled her excellent Australian ISP filtering/censorship plan page at Libertus.net. The page now takes on a question and answer format, with plenty of new information added.
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