Archive for the ‘Fighting Censorship’ Category
Wednesday, January 27th, 2010
As many of you know, hundreds of websites turned black this Australia Day (and many will remain so for the rest of the week) to protest the Government's plan to censor the Internet. It might not have been as popular as beach BBQs or beer and the cricket, but initial ...
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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, July 9th, 2009
GetUp! has officially launched Censordyne, an ad and website campaign combo to help stop the Government from introducing Internet censorship in Australia. The group hopes to show the ad on Qantas flights in August when politicians are on flights to Canberra as Parliament resumes.
Watch here:
Children's welfare groups Save ...
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Thursday, January 22nd, 2009
Anyone who sent a letter of concern to Labor Senators and MPs about mandatory ISP filtering will likely have received the same standard form reply sent nation wide. That takes no effort and it means the Government still fail to address countless relevent and important questions about the plan over ...
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Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
There may have been some hiccups, like not being able to hear the speakers on the megaphone and typos in the information pamphlets, but Brisbane's rally against mandatory ISP filtering did what it set out to do: generate some heat and raise some awareness.
[caption id="attachment_1942" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Brisbane Square, December ...
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Tuesday, December 9th, 2008
Don't forget that on December 13 there will be net censorship protests across most of the country. Might be a good networker as well.
Time
City
Location
Facebook Events
11am
Brisbane
Brisbane Square
Brisbane Facebook Event
11am
Hobart
Parliament Lawns
Hobart Facebook Event
11am
Sydney
Town Hall
Sydney Facebook Event
12pm
Adelaide
Parliament
Adelaide Facebook Event
12pm
Melbourne
State Library
Melbourne Facebook Event
12pm
Perth
Stirling Gardens
Perth Facebook Event
12pm
Canberra
City Walk (near ...
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Thursday, December 4th, 2008
GetUp! has raised a whopping $25,000 in donations in less than half a day for it's anti Internet censorship campaign, Save the Net (you can donate securely at the GetUp! website). At time of writing, the exact figure is $25,618 and just like their petition, the number rises every minute.
GetUp! ...
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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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Friday, November 7th, 2008
Electronic Frontiers Australia has a mailing list you can subscribe to for the latest action alerts on filtering and other EFA related issues. It's quick to sign up, just enter your email details here.
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Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
People have been asking for some time now whether GetUp! will be entering the ring in the fight against net censorship down under. Well today we may be that one step closer to knowing. GetUp! has published a story from Colin Jacobs of EFA and that's a good sign they ...
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