Archive for the ‘International’ Category
Sunday, October 4th, 2009
New Zealand blogger Thomas Beagle has obtained a copy of the NZ Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) report (PDF) on their trial of an Internet filtering system (in this case the Netclean Whitebox).
Beagle writes:
The second half of it [the report] is more interesting as it has some results from the ...
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Friday, January 23rd, 2009
If the Chinese government's claim that Internet pornography and vulgar content seriously threaten the mental and physical health of youth is true, then perhaps looking at too much porn really will turn you blind?
I'm no doctor so I'll refrain from further speculation on the physical effects, but reports are in ...
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Monday, January 5th, 2009
I'm currently holidaying in Japan and today I finished my brief stop over in Atami with a visit to the Atami Hihokan - or as it's better known - the Atami Adult or Sex Museum. An excellent place to spend an hour!
Not only does it offer three levels of exhibits ...
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Monday, December 22nd, 2008
WikiLeaks has published a list of over 1,200 websites recently added to Thailand's Internet censorship blacklist.
Wikileaks says every blocked site has the internally noted reason of "lese majeste" -- criticizing the King -- however, it is obvious that many sites were blocked for quite different reasons. It would appear, in ...
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Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
Spiked Online, a UK publication with the modest ambition of making history as well as reporting it, has published three articles on Australia's net censorship plan.
Guy Rundle gives a detailed run down of the proposal and its conservative connections in his article, Tear down Australia's Great Firewall Reef (c'mon ...
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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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Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008
New Zealand's Office of Film & Literature Classification is teaching school students the fine art of classification and censorship. Michelle Baker from the OFLC said their Censor For A Day program is an opportunity for students to learn how censorship really worked and to apply it to future films.
Bay Of ...
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Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
American Airlines is under fire from customers and flight attendants because their inflight Internet service will give passengers access to pornographic websites (despite no recorded incidents of it happening). They want filtering software installed to keep all naughty stuff out of the air (Die Hard 4 as inflight ...
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Wednesday, September 10th, 2008
Now New Zealand is making fun of us because of our looming clean feed. They've even reminded us that ex Tasmanian Senator Paul Calvert once said you have only got to press P on the Internet to get porn.
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Monday, September 1st, 2008
In November 2007, The Pew Internet & American Life Project surveyed attendees at the second Internet Governance Forum in Rio de Janeiro to find out their views on how governments and other regulators should structure policy about the internet, amongst other things.
The results?
Respondents indicated strong support for the establishment ...
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