Archive for the ‘Reports’ Category
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 shit, 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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Thursday, June 19th, 2008
The Senate Inquiry into Naughty Words on TV (or Senator Cory Bernardi's quest to wash Gordon Ramsay's mouth out with soap) has resulted not in calls for more censorship, but a recommendation that all digital televisions sold in Australia be fitted with a parental lock out system.
The inquiry also recommended ...
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Monday, March 3rd, 2008
Whirlpool has released the results of their 2007 Australian Broadband Survey. The survey was completed and verified 17,881 times.
In response to the question do you support the government's policy for mandatory ISP-level content filtering (opt-out), around three quarters of respondents disagreed with the decision to filter internet content, with more ...
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
Just like most of us have been saying since day one: education is the key to helping protect children from the dangers they face when accessing the web. Stephen Conroy's own department practically agrees. The ACMA's latest report says education about online safety would be just as effective as internet ...
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Sunday, January 6th, 2008
The Howard Government commissioned a number of investigations into the effectiveness of Internet content filtering, including filtering at an ISP level and at an even higher Government/Internet backbone level. One of these investigations was conducted by Melbourne telecoms and software consulting firm, Ovum, in 2003 on behalf of the Department ...
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