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 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 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 two of a transcription of MMM’s Spoonman show on internet censorship, which aired 13 November 2008. You can download the podcast here, and Part One, an interview with EFA Chair Dale Clapperton, is transcribed here. Here’s part two, an interview with Steve Dolby Dalby from internet service provider Iinet. And part three, [...]
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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 [...]
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