Archive for the ‘Internet Censorship’ Category
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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Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009
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 ...
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Friday, August 28th, 2009
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 ...
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Monday, August 24th, 2009
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 ...
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Sunday, August 9th, 2009
by Sean Wright
Senator Conroy has again fired off another of the 'no silver bullet' lines in relation to ISP filtering - a phrase so prevalent that should a pack of werewolves cross over 'a bridge too far' and wander down a 'fork in the road' our kiddies will be well ...
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Tuesday, August 4th, 2009
According to IT Wire, New South Wales Director of Public Prosecutions, Nicholas Cowdery, told the 2009 eCrime Symposium in Sydney on Tuesday that '...filters and blocking mechanisms, ultimately in a society like ours, would have only limited if any success.'
IT Wire reports that Cowdery thinks the Federal Government’s ISP-level internet ...
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Monday, August 3rd, 2009
by Brisbane IT Librarian, Kath Read.
Recently the Brisbane Times published this article with reference to an incident at Maroochydore Library where a parent complained about another customer accessing pornography on the public internet terminals in the library.
Strangely enough this is a common issue for libraries and other public internet providers, both ...
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