By tigtog on February 26, 2010
Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed. What did I miss? Please share what you've been reading (and writing!) in the comments. furikku: In which I babble about Writing Minorities – “And since the categories have developed over decades- centuries in some cases- they’re generally made by The Majority, and reflect the attitudes [...]
Posted in linkfest | Tagged acma, blogging, pornography, Read-ems
By Lauredhel on August 2, 2009
Sky News Online: Radio show suspended by Austereo The Kyle and Jackie O radio show has been suspended indefinitely after last week’s lie detector stunt, with host Kyle Sandilands declaring he is unable to go on air. There have been calls for 2Day FM’s Kyle and Jackie O breakfast show to be axed by the [...]
Posted in ethics & philosophy, gender & feminism, media | Tagged acma, australia, child abuse, exploitation, kyle sandilands, radio, rape |
By Lauredhel on July 29, 2009
Kyle Sandilands, you’re not just a prat, you’re an abusive douchebag. I have a feeling Kyle Sandilands and Jackie O are going to be getting accolades on the “sensitive” way in which they handled this segment. Kyle and Jackie run a radio show on 2Day FM. They include a segment called “Lie Detector”. They accepted [...]
Posted in gender & feminism, media, relationships, violence | Tagged acma, child abuse, child rape, counselling, kyle sandilands, radio, rape, sex, sexual abuse, sexual assault, violence |
By Lauredhel on May 27, 2009
Well, the proposed Australian internet filtering plans have shifted, and changed, and been fiddled with, and shifted again. We went from an across-the-board opt-out censorship system (the election promise), to some sort of “clean feed” (a meaningless term), to mandatory nationwide censorship of all sorts of things, to mandatory nationwide censorship of Refused Classification material, [...]
Posted in culture wars, Politics, technology | Tagged acma, australia, blacklist, books & writing, broadband, censorship, communications, conroy, elections, filtering, freedom of speech, internet, internet filtering, IT, legislation, moral panics |
By Lauredhel on February 11, 2009
The Federal Government’s mandatory internet filtering trials, which were scheduled to begin on Christmas Eve 2008, are now set to go ahead. Telstra, Optus, and Iinet, Australia’s three biggest ISPs, are not involved. Half of the ISPs that are involved focus on business custom, not home internet. The Australian IT reports: The federal Government’s controversial [...]
Posted in culture wars, law & order, Politics, technology | Tagged acma, australia, blacklist, censorship, communications, conroy, controversy, elections, filtering, iinet, internet, moral panics, rudd, Telstra |
By Lauredhel on November 15, 2008
Karl Stefanovic interviewed internet service provision expert and outspoken censorship critic Mark Newton on yesterday’s Today Show. Click on the eye image to see video. ~~~ Transcript: Karl Stefanovic: [Australia?]‘s plan for a new internet filter has been widely criticised by service providers who say it will be ineffective and slow down the speed of [...]
Posted in culture wars, ethics & philosophy, law & order, medicine, Politics | Tagged acma, australia, blacklist, blogging, censorship, civil liberties, communications, cyberbullying, filtering, freedom of speech, internet, moral panics, stephen conroy, technology |
By Lauredhel on November 14, 2008
This is part three of a transcription of MMM’s Spoonman show on internet censorship, which aired 13 November 2008. You can download the podcast here. Previous parts: Part One, an interview with EFA Chair Dale Clapperton. Part two, an interview with Steve Dalby from internet service provider Iinet. Related posts: Conroy backing down on internet [...]
Posted in culture wars, ethics & philosophy, law & order, media | Tagged acma, australia, blacklist, blogging, broadband, censorship, child pornography, civil liberties, communications, conroy, cyberbullying, electronic frontiers australia, internet, internet censorship, internet filtering, moral panics, net nanny, nocleanfeed, privacy |
By Lauredhel on November 14, 2008
The Spoonman on MMM last night hosted a discussion of Conroy & Rudd’s internet censorship plans. You can download the podcast here. Here’s a transcript of the first part of the show, with EFA Chair Dale Clapperton. (errors are mine, bold are where words were spoken with particular emphasis or to pick out dot points). [...]
Posted in culture wars, ethics & philosophy, law & order, media, Politics | Tagged acma, australia, blacklist, blogging, broadband, censorship, civil liberties, communications, conroy, cyberbullying, elections, electronic frontiers australia, internet, internet censorship, internet filtering, moral panics, net nanny, nocleanfeed, privacy |
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