Video of the Kickstart 2009 ISP filtering debate: McMenamin still doesn’t get it
You can now watch the filtering debate between Bernadette McMenamin (Childwise), Anthony Pillion (Webshield), Geordie Guy (EFA), and Mark Newton which took place at the Kickstart 2009 media conference on the weekend. Check out the debate here. McMenamin still doesn’t understand why so many are opposed to mandatory ISP filtering if they know it doesn’t...
Mark Newton debates Jim Wallace, Radio National, 28 January
Mark Newton will be on ABC Radio National Thursday morning at 09:05 EST to spar with the director of the Australian Christian Lobby Jim Wallace over Australia’s net censorship plan. For those who haven’t seen Wallace’s factually-limp opinion piece on filtering from earlier this week I suggest you check it out before listening. My response...
Saturday wrap up: Conroy logic, ACMA blacklist, trial ISPs and Graham Perrett
First up, EFA looks at how much content on the current ACMA blacklist is illegal. Of the 781 URLs put on the blacklist in 2007 – 08, 368 of them contained legal content (PDF with summary table). I touched briefly on this a few days back: ACMA’s 2007 – 2008 annual report (table 25) shows...
Mark Newton’s meeting with Kate Ellis about filtering
Mark Newton has recapped his meeting this Monday with Kate Ellis. Read it here. “Ms. Ellis had, by now, worked out that I wasn’t there to be persuaded by her, and asked for something she could take to the Minister that he could work with. That was actually “stage 2″ on my meeting plan, so...
Morning wrap up: Mark Newton’s opinion piece
Check out Mark Newton’s article The Perplexing Internet Debate. In it Mark writes: In the past, politicians have been able to monopolise the debate by having disproportionate access to media. Not so for Mr Conroy, who has been so thoroughly discredited by the controversy that his press office has refused to comment to media outlets...
Interview with Mark Newton
Network Performancing Daily has Interviewed Mark Newton about filtering. Not a great deal of new information, but it’s worth listening to or reading just to stay up to date with what’s happening. Newton: ‘So I’d make the comment – and this is – I guess – bringing things back to the center a little bit:...
Australian Government’s attempt to gag ISP filter critic backfires
Breaking: SMH has revealed how Belinda Dennett, a policy adviser for Senator Conroy, tried to ‘bully’ Internode Network Engineer Mark Newton into keeping quiet with his criticisms of the Government’s clean feed proposal. Newton wrote on Whirlpool earlier this week that he had received personal attacks from Conroy’s office, but didn’t mention what they were....
Interview: Internode’s Mark Newton talks filtering
Ben Grubb (who copped a bit of flack for his interview with Tim Marshall) has interviewed Internode network engineer Mark Newton. Mark is the guy who confirmed our suspicions that there wouldn’t be any way to completely opt-out of ISP filtering. In this rather in depth interview, Mark notes that ISPs not taking part in...
Filters mandatory for all Australians: DBCDE
Computer World is the first media outlet to question the Government’s ISP filtering opt-out policy. Two weeks ago Internode network engineer Mark Newton confirmed there would be two black lists and adults would only be able to opt-out from the list containing inappropriate content for children. They would not be able to opt-out of the...