Archive for the ‘Internet Censorship’ Category
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 ...
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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.
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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 ...
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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.
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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 ...
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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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Sunday, October 4th, 2009
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 ...
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Wednesday, September 9th, 2009
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 ...
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Wednesday, September 9th, 2009
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 ...
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Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
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 ...
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