Archive for the ‘Fighting Censorship’ Category
Thursday, July 17th, 2008
Amnesty International Australia is launching a social media campaign aimed at getting Australian bloggers to unite and support their Chinese counterparts who have been banned or imprisoned by the Chinese government for expressing their right to freedom of speech online.
Sophie Peer from Amnesty says a lot of Australian's are concerned ...
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Thursday, January 17th, 2008
Community action group GetUp is asking Australian's what big issues deserve attention in 2008. So don't delay - let them know you oppose mandatory filtering and censorship. Let them know it's a big issue and one they should help stop.
The great thing about GetUp is they have over 200 thousand ...
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Saturday, January 12th, 2008
The U.S. State Department has been given $15 Million by Congress to develop anti-censorship tools and services which could help Internet users breach electronic firewalls set up by China, Iran and other ?closed societies.? Defense News reports that the budget is to be "awarded competitively to software developers to produce ...
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Tuesday, January 8th, 2008
One question some of you might be asking is: How do I explain to my friends/co-workers/partner/dog why we shouldn't introduce mandatory ISP filtering in Australia?
Louise Schaper wrote me with a great letter which includes a number of points you can mention (content written in orange is where I have ...
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Tuesday, January 8th, 2008
As requested, a petition has been set up. Sign it to show you disagree with mandatory Internet filtering in Australia:
http://petitions.takingitglobal.org/oznetcensorship
It will take just 30 seconds. Max.
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Sunday, January 6th, 2008
If you're looking to stay up to date on the latest censorship issues in Australia, there are two must-join email lists.
The first is the EFA Stop Censorship list. This list has been active for many years and is frequented by numerous Australian censorship experts, including Irene Graham. It has ...
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