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Accessibility bouquet, and how about shade for “accessible” parking?

By Lauredhel on October 18, 2009

And an accessibility bouquet goes… to a staff member at a Telstra shop today. They offered wordlessly to serve me on-scooter or on-chair, without making a fuss. When the staff member started to explain the plans in spoken-word, I asked to be shown them in print because it was easier to process, and she rapidly [...]

| Tagged ableism, accessibility, CFS, disability, fibromyalgia, multiple sclerosis, parking permit, Telstra | 14 Responses

Quickhit: Internet censorship trials to go ahead

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 | 5 Responses

Telstra not playing with Conroy’s Web filter

By tigtog on December 9, 2008

I’m sick of everybody calling it an internet filter when it’s only a Web filter for a start, so my own little blow for public understanding that the Web is not all of the internet starts here. A filter that doesn’t block USENet groups can hardly be said to be approaching an “internet” level of [...]

Posted in law & order, media, technology | Tagged internet filter, moral panics, peeves, social change, stephen conroy, Telstra | 3 Responses

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