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By tigtog on November 9, 2012
It’s good to see Stephen Conroy finally face the facts: his filter proposal was about as clever as equipping a blue whale to pursue a vulture.
Posted in culture wars, law & order, technology | Tagged australia, internet filtering, nocleanfeed, stephen conroy |
By tigtog on July 9, 2010
Sen. Conroy announced today that the mandatory filter is going to be put onto the back-burner until an independent inquiry has been held.
Posted in culture wars, law & order, technology | Tagged australian internet censorship, internet filtering |
By Lauredhel on May 30, 2010
The government’s $128.8 million Cyber Safety policy includes forcing internet service providers to block access to a secret blacklist of website pages identified as ”refused classification” by the Australian police. Web pages will be nominated for blacklisting by Australian internet users who come across illegal or ”unacceptable” websites.
Posted in Politics, technology | Tagged australia, internet filtering, nocleanfeed, stephen conroy |
By tigtog on April 29, 2010
From the Oz A spokeswoman for Communications Minister Stephen Conroy said yesterday the legislation would not be introduced next month’s or the June sittings of parliament. With parliament not sitting again until the last week of August, the laws are unlikely to be passed before the election. Vote Green, Green, Green in the Senate, y’all. [...]
Posted in Politics, technology | Tagged australia, elections, internet filtering, mandatory filtering, nocleanfeed |
By tigtog on March 30, 2010
That nasty Google is saying terrible things about his shiny net filter that he wants to give to all Australians, whether they want it or not.
Posted in culture wars, ethics & philosophy, Politics, technology | Tagged australia, internet filtering, mandatory filtering, nocleanfeed, stephen conroy |
By tigtog on December 16, 2009
“The internet filter will not protect kids from nasty things on the net, but will instead give parents a false sense of security leading to the very outcomes that they are trying to prevent”.
Posted in culture wars, parenting, Politics, technology | Tagged australia, internet filtering |
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 December 2, 2008
Clive Hamilton, “public intellectual”, has been banging on about how wrong wrongitty wrong anti-censorship advocates are. Clive has been stampily regurgitating the mantra of the censors: “I have heard no one argue that films, television, books and magazine should be a free-for-all. But somehow all of this goes out the window when it comes to [...]
Posted in Politics, technology | Tagged australia, blogging, censorship, freedom of speech, internet censorship, internet filtering, Kevin Rudd, moral panics, nocleanfeed, privacy, stephen conroy |
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 October 23, 2008
[edited 24/25/27 Oct 2008 to update Further Reading list and keep the links roundup up to date.] Greens Senator Scott Ludlam has been trying to extract information on the new internet filtering plans in Senate Estimates committee. Here’s the transcript, via the Greens website. My notes: * Internet filtering funding has been allocated $44.2 million [...]
Posted in culture wars, law & order, Politics, technology | Tagged censorship, cyberbullying, false positives, internet censorship, internet filtering, moral panics, nocleanfeed, privacy |
By tigtog on July 31, 2008
We said it would. Despite a cheery press release from Communications Minister Stephen Conroy that all is going well, an analysis of the actual test results shows that the tested filters slow connection speeds significantly (which means ISPs would have to increase capacity, the costs of which would be passed on to consumers) and have [...]
Posted in technology | Tagged false positives, internet filtering, moral panics, peeves, social change, stephen conroy |
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