The No Clean Feed campaign
Alex White has posted on what he describes as soul searching in the campaign against internet filtering about its direction. White’s post is replete with useful links, and is well worth a read. He disagrees with the focus on censorship, [...]
New appointments to the ABC Board
Some very good news – the Rudd government has appointed two members to the ABC board who actually know something about public broadcasting and culture. Former Opera House boss Michael Lynch, who was praised by the Queen for transforming London’s [...]
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 [...]
Public broadcasting as public service media
As a bit of a sequel to Helen’s post on Radio National’s travails, I wanted to draw attention to the public consultation initiated by DBCDE on the government’s inquiry into the future of the ABC and SBS. For those who [...]
Glogging
Anyone wanting an update on how the federal government’s adventures into the wilds of citizen consultation via blogs [at the Digital Economy Blog hosted under the auspices of DBCDE] are going could do a lot worse than read these two [...]
Future of public broadcasting
It’s a bit of a hard ask to keep up with all the policy reviews the Rudd government has initiated. And they appear to be in the habit of releasing the results or closing deadlines for submissions well into the [...]
No Clean Feed rallies
A partial wrap of the protests over the weekend. Coverage of the Brisbane rally is at Nocensorship.info, and Skribe has uploaded a citizen journalism video report of the Perth event to YouTube: Please feel free to add links or reports [...]
The National Broadband Network, Telstra and "market forces"
Telstra has been playing a high-risk strategy over tendering for the National Broadband Network, submitting a deliberate non-compliant tender which the government has now confirmed excludes it from the process. The brinkmansip game appears to have failed at the first [...]
Strange affiliations: the Clean Feed's political trajectory
Over at Catallaxy, Jason Soon links to Kerry Miller’s article in Spiked about Clive Hamilton’s influence in the propagation of the idea of the “Clean Feed” web censorship plan. There are some strange alliances around this issue, and Miller, who [...]
No Clean Feed Rally: Protesting the protest tactics
[Via Public Polity] There’s a rally protesting the Clean Feed internet censorship plan in Brisbane Square on Saturday from 11am to 3pm. I support the cause, but I won’t be there. I’m aware of three other protest rallies and marches [...]
The Government blogs!
Dave Bath reports that the government has an official blog on their digital economy plans. This has been in the works for some time; a government Lindsay Tanner’s welcome post (which is worth reading in its entirety) explains the idea: [...]
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