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Internet censorship in Senate Question Time today

By lauredhel on 2008-11-11 • ( 34 )

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… Read More ›

Censoring the Internet: Conroy plays King Canute

By Guest Poster on 2008-01-04 • ( 1 )

[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… Read More ›

Academia: Internet-Triggered Death of Civil Society Not Predicted

By lauredhel on 2008-01-01 • ( 5 )

kwoff_id = 9106; 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… Read More ›

“Civil liberties advocates = paedophiles”: Internet culture wars from the ALP.

By lauredhel on 2008-01-01 • ( 6 )

kwoff_id = 9092; 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?… Read More ›

The Great Firewall of Australia

By lauredhel on 2007-12-31 • ( 65 )

[image source] So the government has, as planned back in Beazley times, decided that ISPs in Australia must now implement blocking of “pornographic and inappropriate” websites. Customers must opt out, rather than opting in, to a blocking system that is… Read More ›