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 February 4, 2009
Ever wanted to visualise the feminist blogging Anglosphere with an interactive map and a US-centric focus? Here’s your chance: The Feminist Web, from linkfluence and Fem2pt0. You’ll need the username/password fem2pt0/linkfluence.
Posted in gender & feminism, Meta | Tagged blogging, feminists, geography, internet, map |
By Lauredhel on December 16, 2008
This is all over the news. WA Today reports: “Woman [sic] choose web over sex”: Nearly one out of two women would rather give up sex for two weeks than go without the internet, according to a survey released today. Is anyone really surprised? Any Hoydenizens care to participate in a straw poll? Count me [...]
Posted in fun & hobbies, technology | Tagged internet, sex, sexuality and health, women |
By tigtog on December 13, 2008
The weather is clearing here in Sydney, just in time for the marches against Conroy’s ham-fisted plan to cripple internet access for ordinary Australians. There are marches organised for all capital cities, the earliest will be Brisbane’s starting at 11am (other 11am starts are using Summer Time). In more web filter news: SMH: New hurdle [...]
Posted in ethics & philosophy, technology | Tagged australian internet censorship, internet, social change, stephen conroy |
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
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, [...]
Posted in culture wars, ethics & philosophy, law & order, media, Politics | Tagged blogging, censorship, civil liberties, cyberbullying, electronic frontiers australia, filtering, freedom of speech, iinet, internet, moral panics, net nanny, stephen conroy |
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 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 [...]
Posted in culture wars, ethics & philosophy, Politics, technology | Tagged australia, blacklist, censorship, civil liberties, electronic frontiers australia, freedom of speech, internet, moral panics, stephen conroy |
By Lauredhel on January 1, 2008
In this week of heightened Internet! Moral! Panic!, it’s worth a peek at whether the internet really is the creeping civil cancer that some believe it to be. The JCMC (Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication) is available in fulltext online. It can be a fount of wanky sociology-speak, of course, but it also comes up with [...]
Posted in culture wars, technology | Tagged activism, facebook, internet, moral panics, social networking, Sociology, technology |
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