We don't have a censor sitting in every cinema
We don’t have censors sitting in every bookstore or newsagent either. We don’t even have censors sitting in every “adult” XXX shop. So why treat the internet so differently?
#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 [...]
Too hard for ordinary people to do? #nocleanfeed
While some of the 47 people attending the Chatswood workshop – which is not illegal but is expected to become so when the legislation comes into force – are still taking elementary computer lessons, others learnt in only a few minutes how to access any website through a proxy server to bypass the filter’s firewall.
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.
Google v. Australian government
In the wake of Google’s changed stance toward the Chinese government, the company has now raised concerns about the Rudd government’s internet filter. In a piece in Crikey today, Jason Whittaker reported:
New Matilda forum on net filtering in Brisbane
The tangled web: beyond an internet filter A series of public forums about the internet regulation debate in Australia The Federal Government’s proposal to block internet sites with a mandatory filter has drawn overwhelming opposition from voices across politics and [...]
Scrutiny in the Senate: water, markets and censorship
I sometimes think that if it weren’t for the Senate Estimates Committees we would hardly know anything about our government at all in this country that didn’t come from a press release or a well-timed leak, given that Question Time [...]
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