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Fast, censored internet? Or not? You choose!
Mr Abbott has campaigned upon a platform of economic responsibility having built up a formidable armoury of bullets to fire against the Rudd/Gillard Government after a number of costly project fiascos. However, he appears to have badly misjudged the mood of the electorate on the issue of the NBN. Ben Shipley, the managing director of Brisbane-based telco Comscentre, typifies the mood of...
July, 26 2010 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
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Government transparency only when convenient.
Take a look at the tag cloud below, taken from the Australian Government's own taskforce into Government 2.0 - the next generation of government and internet services. Having participated in the Gov2.0 process, to some degree, myself, I have noticed thee common and relatively core themes throughout the process. Tag Cloud access accessibility Best Practice Brainstorming community content contests...
July, 23 2010 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
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Senator Conroy doesn't want small boobs on the web! Censorship: Labor's hidden policy - ABC - The Drum commentary
Labor's internet filtering policy isn't being discussed in the run-up to the election but its impact on Australia is significant. Championed by Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy, the $30million+ filter is being sold by Labor as an internet block for child pornography, bestiality and extreme pornography with 'wide ranging support from the Australian...
July, 21 2010 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
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Internet filter...no, censorship...no, Internet Big Spend!
Unregulated internet not an option: Conroy - iTWire Leaving the online world as an unregulated distribution medium actually "weakens all that is good about the internet," Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has told the Sydney Institute in a detailed defence of the Rudd Government's digital policy agenda. via itwire.com Internet filter not censorship: Conroy Senator Conroy said ISP level filtering alone was not enough to help fight child pornography or keep...
April, 17 2010 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
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No penalty for bypassing Conroy's internet filter - News.com.au
The Government was aware that tech-savvy people were likely to find a way around the filter, the spokesperson said. "The independent report on the ISP-level filtering pilot trial found that technically competent people could circumvent filtering technologies," they said. "Under the Government’s policy it will not be an offence to circumvent the filtering measures or to show someone how to circumvent." Mr Wood said the internet filter didn't address many of the "real" problems...
April, 16 2010 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
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Classification Act 1995 - Australia's net censorship
According to the Classification (Publications, Films and Computer Games) Act 1995, refused classification covers publications that: describe, depict, express or otherwise deal with matters of sex, drug misuse or addiction, crime, cruelty, violence or revolting or abhorrent phenomena in such a way that they offend against the standards of morality, decency and propriety generally accepted by reasonable adults to the extent that they should not be classified; or describe...
March, 15 2010 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
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Move over, Australia: France taking 'Net censorship lead
Under Sarkozy, France is moving to a more proactive enforcement model that removes or blocks content at the source, rather than being content to go after lawbreakers. As a consequence, however, France will now have one of the toughest censorship regimes of any robust democracy in the Western hemisphere—though Australia is giving France a good run for its money on the worldwide stage. Journalists in neighboring countries have been quick to pounce. Germany's Der Spiegel wondered...
February, 19 2010 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
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"Filter confers legitimacy on broader censorship: Google" - ITWire
"This difference is, of course, that the decision as to what is be viewed and what is not is moved from a choice made by an individual to a compulsion imposed by a government agency, without transparency to the individual that a decision is being made," the submission said."Use of compulsion rightly calls for special vigilance to ensure that denial of choice is fully justified. Special safeguards are appropriate and necessary where there is also no transparency to the user...
February, 16 2010 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
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STEPHEN CONROY EXTENDED INTERVIEW | Hungry Beast
TEPHEN CONROY EXTENDED INTERVIEW by Hungry Beast February 9, 2010 at 05:35pm Dan Ilic talks with Senator Conroy about the Rudd Government's proposed mandatory internet filter and more.--> Dan Ilic talks with Senator Conroy about the Rudd Government's proposed mandatory internet filter and more. by Hungry Beast February 9, 2010 at 05:35pm via hungrybeast.abc.net.au It is vital that, not only Australian, but any internet user be...
February, 11 2010 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
Me and my profession
