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.
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Quicklink: partial Australian web censorship starts in July
By “voluntary” they mean that the ISPs are filtering content identified as child abuse material voluntarily, not that they are giving their customers who don’t want to look at child abuse material anyway any choice about being gifted with a false sense of cybersecurity.
Crowdsourcing: ideas for an anti-filter website
I love the new Filter Stephen Conroy site, and I’m keen to put up a similar site aimed at people who very much want their own family’s internet access to be filtered and who have bought into the idea that Conroy’s filter is going to be the easiest way to do it (and that it will work).
Femmostroppo Reader – June 12, 2010
Government Overreach Edition – what the hell is the Rudd government up to? Read’em and weep.
The lamb roast roundup: Mums and censorship
Feminist criticism of the “It’s Time to Tell Mum” anti-filtering campaign has shown up on several blogs:
Iinet, Censorship, and Conroy’s Lies
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.
So simple, even your mother will be opposed
My four month old has explained a lot of things to me. To date it’s been things like “it’s been four months and you still can’t tell the difference between tired and hungry? HERE LET ME SHOW YOU.” But I… Read More ›
Listen up, Labor
Listen closely Labor Party, cos I’m only gonna say this once. Oh wait, no I’m not! I’m gonna say this OVER AND OVER. And Australians who agree with me, please do so also. Don’t you fucking dare put us in… Read More ›
#nocleanfeed – Aust Govt delays introducing net filter legislation
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… Read More ›
Senator Conroy needs some cheese to go with that whine
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.
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