Archive for the ‘Internet Censorship’ Category
Monday, December 1st, 2008
Holly Doel-Mackaway, a child rights adviser with Save the Children, shocked many of us last week at the UNSW filtering forum when she spoke out against mandatory ISP filtering. I guess too many of us are used to hearing the "even if it doesn't work, it's still good" argument from ...
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Friday, November 28th, 2008
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Wednesday, November 26th, 2008
Tomorrow I (and many others) converge on Sydney for the the UNSW Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre's Internet Filtering Forum. The good news for those unable to attend is that Stilgherrian will be blogging the event live (he's also kindly invited myself and Peter Black to join in and offer ...
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Wednesday, November 26th, 2008
Irene Graham has published a comprehensive research paper about the false and misleading statistics associated with the prevalence of child pornography on the Internet which appeared in Australian media reports and articles during 2008. That includes Bernadette McMenamin's comments in The Australian back in January:
'Child pornography is one of the ...
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Wednesday, November 26th, 2008
GetUp! has launched their anti-filter campaign, Save The Net.
The Federal Government is planning to force all Australian servers to filter internet traffic and block any material the Government deems ‘inappropriate’. Under the plan, the Government can add any ‘unwanted’ site to a secret blacklist.
Testing has already begun on systems that ...
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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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