Australia
ONI Blog: Australian Goverment Releases Paper Detailing Filtering Pilot
Ban.This.URL, a blog documenting and examining online censorship in Australia, reports that Australia's The Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy (DBCDE) has released a paper detailing the technical specifications of Australia's proposed Internet filtering plan.
In the paper...
- Posted on 17/Dec/2008; tagged in Australia, Australia/New Zealand, Obscenity, Social filtering, Overblocking
ONI Blog: Australia's Slippery Slope
With all of the news lately regarding Australia's Internet filtering scheme, one might think Australia were the first or only country to ever filter the Internet.
Since the filter was announced in 2007, it has been widely criticized. First, Australia announced...
ONI Blog: Australian Activists Fight Filtering Measures
Australian Communications Minister Stephen Conroy's recent announcement that Australia's upcoming filtering scheme would not allow Internet users to opt-out was met with great opposition from the Australian public, as well as some from ISPs.
The scheme has also received criticism from...
ONI Blog: Australian ISPs ordered to keep quiet about Internet filtering regulations
According to news reports, Australian ISPs have been ordered to keep quiet about the country's filtering scheme. Following a complaint from the employee of one ISP, Communications Minister Stephen Conroy allegedly had an "intimidating e-mail" sent to keep the ISP...
ONI Blog: Australia's Filtering Ideals
Under Australia's new Internet filtering scheme, citizens will be unable to opt out of inclusion. Instead, they will be able to choose between two blacklists; one blocks content inappropriate for children, the other blocks illegal material.
Shortly after the plan...
- Posted on 21/Oct/2008; tagged in Australia, Australia/New Zealand, Legislation, Filtering tech and software
ONI Blog: YouTube, Scientology and the DMCA
You've all seen the anti-Scientology protests; a group known as Anonymous, wearing Guy Fawkes, protest outside various churches of Scientology, or most recently here in Cambridge, outside of an exhibit aimed at teaching people about the religion. Many such protests...
- Posted on 09/Sep/2008; tagged in Canada, United States of America, Germany, Australia, United States/Canada, Europe, Take-down
