Archive for the ‘Fighting Censorship’ Category
Thursday, October 30th, 2008
EFA has just launched their new R18+ for games campaign website, R18games.com.
An R18+ classification would require the unanimous support of all Attorneys-General, and in the past moves to change the current classification have been blocked on the vote of a single state Attorney-General.
EFA is now sponsoring a campaign to ...
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Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
One of my regular readers, Sean The Blogonaut, has posted part one of his three part video series on ISP filtering and protecting children online. As Sean stresses, education and policing are the keys to protecting children, not filtering. Watch below or here.
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Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
A comic strip thanks to First Dog On The Moon, Crikey and EFA: http://www.haveyourbunnyrepeatedly.com/
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Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
This letter from a concerned Christian parent is a quality read. While Senator Conroy would like to make out only illegal porn peddlers and terrorists are opposed to net censorship, it's letters like these that show no matter what your religion, race, age or sex, mandatory ISP filtering will have ...
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Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
Anti Internet censorship posters are popping up everywhere. Print em, stick em, put em on your web page, get the word out. Got one I don't have? Email or Skype me.
If you created one of these and I haven't credited you, please let me know.
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Monday, October 27th, 2008
Electronic Frontiers Australia is now on Twitter. Follow @efa_oz.
What's Twitter? It's a simple service that let's you stay on top of what's happening with your friends, or in this case, what's happening with filtering and EFA.
Or as Wikipedia puts it:
Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows ...
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Sunday, October 26th, 2008
A wiki has been set up to record which members of the Senate and House of Representatives are in favour of and against mandatory ISP filtering. The site relies on us to submit the responses we receive from our honorable representatives so get cracking here.
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Monday, October 20th, 2008
If you're not sure what the deal is with the Government's Net censorship plan or you don't know what you can do to stop it, Angry Aussie has a great 10 minute video lesson on YouTube. Watch below or share it with your friends who think Internet censorship only happens ...
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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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