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, [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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). [...]
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By Guest Hoyden on January 4, 2008
[This is a guest post by strangedave, yoinked with permission from a comment here. David is a board member of Electronic Frontiers Australia, and many other things besides. Here, he addresses the current plan for mandatory, national, opt-out ISP-based internet filtering, proposed by Stephen Conroy (the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy). Previous [...]
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