Can a clean feed be introduced without legislation?
Dale Clapperton asks a very important question: Can Labor implement a ‘clean feed’ without legislation? He writes: To get any legislation through the Senate at the moment, Labor require the support of either the Coalition, or all seven of the other Senators (five Greens, plus Steve Fielding and Nick Xenophon). If the Coalition oppose the...
Turnbull to speak on clean feed
Here’s some news we’ve been waiting on. Malcolm Turnbull has written on Twitter that he will soon respond to queries about mandatory ISP filtering. See Turbull’s Twitter feed here. Hopefully Turnbull will shed light on where the Lib’s stand on filtering within the next 24 hours. I’ll keep you updated. Turnbull joined Twitter last week....
New Zealand talks Aussie clean feed
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.
Clean feed won’t protect children
Colin from EFA has written an article about the Government’s filtering plan for the MacTalk.com.au community that would be worth showing to any friends you have still unsure of what Stephen Conroy has in store for Australia. It covers many of the problems that exist with the plan, but none more important than the fact...
Will your blog be banned in Australia?
Pornographic websites won’t be the only sites blacklisted in Australia if mandatory ISP filtering is introduced. Your blog might be as well. The recent trial of ISP filters in Tasmania showed that at best 1 out of every 100 websites were incorrectly identified and blocked. That’s bad news for bloggers. The very nature of how...
Blogger reaction to filtering trial
It’s been nearly a week since Conroy hailed the Tassie ISP filtering trial a success. Here’s an overview of what other bloggers are saying about it: ‘The mainstream media in Australia has been outraged by the Internet censorship in China, but seems to be paying no attention to its rise in their own backyard.’ –...
Why the Tasmanian filtering trial is a failure
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 release and show why the...
Media reaction to filtering report
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 rate in blocking sites,...
The Internet is a monster loose in suburbia
When it comes to reporting news about the Internet, the media hasn’t progressed very far from the days of gloomy Time magazine covers and articles on how your child is building bombs using lemons and baking soda. Tonight’s 7:30 Report on Australia’s Clean Feed proposal might suggest the ABC hasn’t moved at all. It used...
Senate Estimates Coverage: Conroy confirms commitment to mandatory filtering
Live coverage of the Senate Standing Committee (watch here): Senate Standing Committee update 1: Senator Conroy at 8:30PM (ACT Local Time) confirmed he is committed to introducing mandatory filtering at an ISP level. ISP filtering trials in Tasmania will end before June 30th and a ‘live trial’ will follow. Senate Standing Committee update 2: 8:48PM...
Clean feed harebrained and ill-conceived: Libs
Opposition communications spokesman Bruce Billson says Rudd and Conroy’s mandatory clean feed plan is an ill-conceived measure by a government that believes only it has the authority to decide what’s appropriate or inappropriate content for computer users. He labeled it a “Harebrained, half-baked policy dreamt up in the lead-up to an election”. Billson was responding...
