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 March 15, 2009
For those interested in Minister Stephen Conroy’s plans to introduce mandatory internet censorship to Australia, check out Wendy Carlisle’s show on the Background Briefing. ABC Radio National: Conroy’s clean feed It’s well-researched, and it explains the issue from square one, right back to Conroy’s fib that Kevin Rudd’s Labor government campaigned on the issue and [...]
Posted in culture wars, language, law & order, Politics | Tagged ABC, australia, blogging, censorship, civil-rights, conroy, filtering, freedom of speech, internet, internet censorship, internet filtering, IT, Kevin Rudd, moral panics, nocleanfeed, pornography, privacy, rights, rudd, trial
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 27, 2008
The West is running a “Leavers’ Diary” in their Blogs section: Day One, Day Two, Day Three, Day Four. It’s a tedious, poorly-written mishmash of “got pissed, got laid, spewed, fuck yeah.” As you’d pretty much expect from Schoolies’ Week. The latest entry is starting to show signs of a “Dangers of Alcohol” story beloved [...]
Posted in fun & hobbies, gender & feminism, Politics, technology, violence | Tagged activism/charity, alcohol, blogging, censorship, cheezburgery, conroy, domestic violence, freedom of speech, internet censorship, internet filtering, LOLcats, moral panics, nocleanfeed, privacy, travel, violence against women |
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 |
By Lauredhel on November 11, 2008
Greens Senator Scott Ludlam writes: In the Senate question time at about 2:30PM Eastern Summer Time today I plan on asking Communications Minister Stephen Conroy about his project for mandatory internet censorship, the so-called ‘clean feed’ which you’ve written to me about. If you miss the broadcast I’ll have the transcript and a video clip [...]
Posted in culture wars, ethics & philosophy, Politics | Tagged blogging, censorship, conroy, cyberbullying, filtering, internet, moral panics, nocleanfeed |
By tigtog on October 31, 2008
According to The Age: A headline-grabbing election promise to crack down on internet nasties looks to be in trouble as Senate opposition grows. As the proposed legislation cannot be passed by Labor alone, and the Opposition is against the plan because of its impost on business as well as that niggling little detail of it [...]
Posted in culture wars, Politics, technology, work and family | Tagged civil liberties, conroy, elections, false positives, moral panics, xenophon |
By Lauredhel on June 18, 2008
The Rudd government plans a “real world live pilot” of Senator Conroy’s opt-out ISP-based filtering, starting next month. Internode and Iinet have already spoken out against the plan. New Zealand filtering company “Watchdog” is drooling over the opportunity to milk the Australian internet-paranoia market. Watchdog has started writing to ISPs offering “partnering” opportunities. Watchdog’s slogan? [...]
Posted in technology | Tagged birth control, blogging, censorship, child pornography, conroy, iinet, moral panics |
By Lauredhel on January 3, 2008
Har. Censorship fan Deborah Robinson has taken a swipe at me for criticising the government’s doomed, technically impossible “clean feed” scheme. After her stoush with Duncan Riley, she is now dismayed – dismayed! – that a FEMINIST writer could POSSIBLY oppose such a measure, on account of it is guaranteed to protect our chiiiiiiiildren from [...]
Posted in gender & feminism, Politics | Tagged australia, censorship, conroy, elections, freedom of speech, moral panics, pornography |
By Lauredhel on January 1, 2008
The ABC reports on Conroy’s internet filtering bluster. He uses exactly the same discourse strategy as used by half-wit anti civil liberties debaters everywhere: “Well if you don’t like it, YOU must be a pedo then! Eh? Eh? You like little girls, eh? Nudge nudge?” Sue Gordon, on the post-”Little Children Are Sacred” NT intervention, [...]
Posted in culture wars, law & order, technology | Tagged ALP, broadband, censorship, child pornography, civil liberties, conroy, freedom of speech, internet, social change |
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