Archive for the ‘Reports’ Category
Wednesday, July 15th, 2009
A government report on media use by young people, that ACMA Chairman Chris Chapman says is sure to inform further debate about digital media literacy, has found 76% - 92% of parents surveyed find it easy to manage their child's use of the Internet. The report also found that most ...
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Sunday, January 18th, 2009
Two reports worth reading:
1) 'Filtering in Oz: Australia's Foray Into Internet Censorship' by Derek Bambauer at the Brooklyn Law School in New York argues Australia represents a shift by Western democracies towards legitimating Internet filtering and away from robust consideration of the alternatives available to combat undesirable information.
Bambauer writes:
Australia’s decision ...
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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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Friday, November 21st, 2008
The NSW Parliamentary Library Research Service has put together a briefing on the government's filtering proposal which is available to download as a PDF here. It reads:
At this stage, the Rudd Government proposal would restrict blanket mandatory ISP filtering to the illegal RC content, based on the ACMA’s ‘black list’ ...
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Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
Two Brisbane adult stores have been fined for selling Category 2 magazines and films classified as X18+ and RC.
Queenslander's can legally watch and purchase such material, but it is illegal for QLD stores to sell it. That creates a big problem and not just for retailers in the Sunshine State ...
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Friday, August 1st, 2008
Network engineer Glen Turner has voiced his concerns about the Tassie filtering trial. In the comments section of my earlier post, Glen says a critical flaw exists in the trial's testbed design:
'80-90% of Australia?s Internet traffic goes to the USA, a considerable distance and a large amount of latency. This ...
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Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
Senator Conroy's office could spin a thread of gold from a lump of crap, I'll give them that. But if you've read the Tasmanian filtering report, it probably didn't take long before you noticed red flags. I decided to compare the report to what Mr Conroy says in his press ...
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Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
It's a shame that some major news organisations were happy to run a rehash of Senator Conroy's can-do-no-wrong press release about the Tassie filtering trial report. Thankfully, not all media was so accepting.
In Crikey, Stilgherrian points out that even though the report found 'most' filters achieved over a 92% success ...
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Monday, July 28th, 2008
Just in: Senator Conroy has released a report on the Tasmanian filtering trial. Download the report as a PDF here.
Update 29/07/08 2PM: I'll post tonight about some of the problem findings in the report that aren't making mainstream media.
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
I haven't had time to fully read the Goverment's report on Sexualisation of Children in the Contemporary Media, but at first glance it doesn't appear they've fallen prey to the hysteria and scaremongering that was thrown around like a ragdoll by certain groups and moral crusaders. I'll cover the good ...
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