It seemed as if talk of the flawed government filtering proposal had gone quite. My Google alerts only dug up old news, ridicule from overseas, and dated blog posts. This no doubt, suited Senator Conroy, he could quietly let this donkey of a policy die or perhaps seize the initiative and get the jump on [...]
Censordyne – the Australian Governments response to online child abuse
July 9, 2009 1 Comment
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The Australian government is being obstinate.
There is no sense to the filtering proposal.
It is being driven by ideology, religiosity or politics – perhaps all three?
Save the Children oppose the ISP Filter
July 9, 2009 2 Comments
ABC Online parliamentary correspondent Emma Rodgers informs us that:
Save the Children has urged the Federal Government to abandon its plans to censor the internet, saying it will not be effective in protecting kids from online dangers. [read more]
Please Senator Conroy, when you have those who actually work on the frontline of child protection telling you [...]
Big Brother is quite literally watching… err reading you
March 22, 2009 11 Comments
According to the Brisbane Times:
The Federal Government will begin trawling blog sites as part of a new media monitoring strategy, with official documents singling out a website critical of the Communications Minister, Stephen Conroy.
Tender documents issued by the Department of Broadband Communications and the Digital Economy reveal it is looking for a “monitoring service for [...]
ISP Filtering Sham…ozle and ACMA blacklist
March 20, 2009 12 Comments
It is a frequent occurance that events happen so quickly that the Mainstream media are left standing, but not often that I feel that things happen so fast that you can’t blog about them.
For those of you not pluged in to twitter with a subdermal twitterpatch- the issue of ISP Filtering and the not to [...]
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