ACMA issues EFA with Link Deletion Notice
ACMA has issued EFA’s webhost a Link Deletion Notice because of an article EFA published on their own website containing a link to an anti-abortion webpage declared prohibited content by the media regulator in January this year. EFA writes: ‘To be clear, EFA published only a link to a page that is hosted overseas and is on ACMA’s prohibited...
Filter supporters talk, Australia listens
Guest post by Danu Poyner There was a lively debate about mandatory internet filtering on ABC Radio National’s ‘Australia Talks’ program Tuesday night. While those who have been following the issue closely will recognise much of the conversation, the debate was interesting because it covered new ground in certain areas. Specifically, we got to hear...
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EFA filtering updates on Twitter
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 its users...
Online freedoms and rights talk, Melb, 20th September
Dale and Colin from EFA will present a talk on online freedoms and rights at Melbourne’s Software Freedom Day this Saturday the 20th of September. Dale writes at NoCensorshipAus that they will be focusing on the Commonwealth government’s current Internet censorship agenda. Where: The Hub, 17 Waterview Walk, Docklands, Melbourne When: 20/09/2008 (EFA says 11AM,...
Family First wants sites promoting anorexia to go, what next?
I raised a few of my own concerns about what was written in the filtering article that appeared in today’s Australian, but EFA Chairperson, Dale Clapperton, has dissected the article with much more precision. He highlights two of its biggest problems: Random statistics that cannot be confirmed, and Family First senator Steve Fielding’s call for...
