Tuesday filtering wrap up: Conroy’s blog, AISA, Greens and the trial of doom
Another busy day of filtering news with the Greens calling on the Government to abandon their live ISP trial as ‘as it’s flawed and doomed to failure‘. Senator Ludlam said: “This trial is simply all show. It won’t give any meaningful indication of how mandatory internet filtering would work in practice. One of the few...
Libs shoot down filtering plan: ‘Misguided and deeply unpopular’
The Greens announced their opposition to filtering (or close to it) this morning and now the Liberals Shadow Comms Minister Nick Minchin has issued a press release labeling the Government’s plan as misguided and deeply unpopular. It reads: Senator Minchin said nobody of decency disagreed about the importance of working to ensure the online world...
Greens demand answers on net censorship plan
As we saw during today’s live Senate broadcast, Senator Conroy is still dodging questions about his plan to censor the web. Thankfully Scott Ludlam isn’t having any of it. In a press release issued this evening by the Greens, they warn there are too many unanswered questions about the government’s internet filtering scheme. “We still...
WA Greens oppose R18+ game rating, so which party supports it?
UPDATE 01/09/08: The WA greens have confirmed this policy. The WA Greens party will oppose the introduction of an R18+ classification for games if elected in the upcoming Western Australian election. According to WAvotes.org.au, a website run by the Australian Christian Lobby where parties respond to questions likely to be raised by Christian voters, the...
