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Caitlin Beyer

ACMA - Online regulation - 0 views

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    Australian Communications and Media Authority's website to regulate material found in all communications and media. This is specifically their online regulation page.
anonymous

Australian Internet Censorship Plans | Optus & Telstra to Filter Internet in Australia - 0 views

  • the criteria of filtering 500 websites is that they contain or might contain Refused Classification (RC)
  • Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA)
  • Mr. Conroy (father of Australian Firewall)
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  • iNet one of the bigger ISPs in Australia rubbishes Mr. Conroy claims of iNet supporting his plans to censor internet in Australia
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    Australia, have announced its plan to ban at least 500 and more websites from next month. the criteria of filtering 500 websites is that they contain or might contain Refused Classification (RC), such as Child Abuse, Sexual Violence, Content related to crime, euthanasia, violence, drug use and promoting terrorist activities would be banned.
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    The father of the Australian Firewall, Mr. Conroy corroborates with ISP's in Australia to filter the internet. However, with such censorship brings about issues of democracy and human rights. The violation of the basic human rights to access information on internet. Such censorship is said to bring in several controversies, illogical content bans and censorship of websites that are unrelated to content banned by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA).
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    A look at internet censorship around the world and particuarly the plans for filtering in Australia, considering Conroy's statements and the supposed support of the ISPs.
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    Optus and Telstra want to censor the internet. google blog search
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    Talks of Australia joining other nations that have internet censorship. Focus on removing obscene sites and Child pornography. Optus and Telstra willingly censoring sites. Possibly a futile effort and filtering needs to be more thorough.
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    Comparing Australia with other major countries in both western and eastern to highlight the similarities and differences in censorship on internet. iNet is agreeing on helping Conroy to provide ISP blockage for the censorship (google blog search)
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    ARIN2610 googleblog "Australian Internet Censorship Plans | Optus & Telstra to Filter Internet in Australia"
Caitlin Beyer

Measures to improve safety of the internet for families | Senator Stephen Conroy | Mini... - 0 views

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    Senator Stephen Conroy's website and media release of the internet censorship laws.
mikhail anax

Internet Censorship in Australia | MobileBeyond - 0 views

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    Internet Censorship in Australia will affect mobile users also, as it is a primary source of communication for most people.
William Wong

Iran Tightens Screws on Internet Users, Again - 0 views

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    Iranians using the internet may be forced to only communicate with each other under the watch of cyber censors
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    Big Brother aka the Communication and Information Minister is going to replace Iran's Web access with an 'all-Iranian intranet' for the greater good of the country.
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    Iranian cyber censors tighten their internet restriction policies.
Lucas Jones

Indian Government Asked to access Gmail and Skype Data | Bestvpnservice.com Blog - 0 views

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    Links to "Australian Censorship Plans" bookmark
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    arin2610 googlelink "Indian government has now asked Skype and Gmail to provide Indian Intelligence Agencies and Information Department with an access to the communication data."
Michelle Vuong

Conroy's net filter still alive and kicking - Knowfirst - 0 views

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    The Communications Minister, Stephen Conroy, is ploughing ahead with his internet filter policy despite there being virtually no chance any enabling legislation will pass either house of Parliament.
Michelle Vuong

Best Australia VPN | Top 10 VPN for Australians to Bypass Censorship & Access Hulu | Be... - 0 views

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    After the announcement that Australia would start censoring 500 or more websites from July, 2011, many will try to find out a way to bypass this censorship to try surf and use the internet in the same way they used to, before the censorship was started by Australian Communication and Media Authority (ACMA). 
Kylie Hocknell

Norton Rose Australia - The Election Briefing: Technology and Communications - 0 views

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    Found using google link feature
Divya Singh

Aussies to push ahead with web censorship - A change of PM is not enough to kill off th... - 0 views

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    Australian PM Julia Gillard works towards censoring the internet in Australia through Conroy's filters, in an effort to protect citizens from the dark side of communications technology.
Divya Singh

Australia Internet To Censor Over 500 Websites « yhumanrightsblog.com Blog - 0 views

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    Federal Government of Australia will be censoring over 500 websites that pertain to specific themes deemed unsuitable for Internet users. Certain communication network providers will assist in this censorship.
Divya Singh

Letter from Senator Conroy regarding ISP filtering « OnsMatch - 1 views

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    Conroy, The Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy in Australia, confirms and clarifies the filtering of the internet as a protection method.
Emma McKinnon

Australia pushes internet censorship; Twitter erupts · Global Voices - 0 views

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    Clouds: "Stephen Conroy", "Minister, Communications"
Kat Finch

UK PMs Internet Censorship Insinuation Receives Praise from China - 0 views

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    "Last Thursday, British Prime Minister said that he wanted to "stop people from communicating on social media" whenever that person is using it to instigate violence"
Evan Noga

Copyright and the Internet back in the Spotlight - 0 views

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    This blog post brings to light the various discussions going on concerning current government movements on anti-copyright and counterfeiting policies and the effects it is having on Australian communication providers.
Yujing Xie

VPN Concentrator restriction for internet browsing - Cisco Support Community - 0 views

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    Home - NetPro - Security - Firewalling - Discussions
anonymous

Why You Should Be Afraid Of Internet Censorship in Australia, Even If You Don't Live There - 0 views

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    Laws, Electronic  China, Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet  Communications, Government  Media  Plan  Internet Filtering Fighting Internet Censorship In Australia  Search engine  Electronic Frontiers Australia outlines the events occurring Classification
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    Internet Censorship in Australia
isobel -

Leaked Australian blacklist reveals banned sites - Technology - smh.com.au - 0 views

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    Article about the blacklist of sites which will be censored in Australia.
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    2009 Article detailing the Australian Communications Regulator's blacklist of banned websites in Australia, which was leaked via Wikileaks.
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    Article about how wikileaks has posted current internet blacklists
Eva hung

Internet, censorship ... Is voluntary internet filtering a crime? | Crikey - 0 views

  • The voluntary filtering being introduced by some of Australia’s major internet service providers (ISPs) is on shaky legal ground
  • content filters based on Interpol’s blacklist of child exploitation material rather than the relevant portions of the blacklist that  continues to be compiled by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA).
  • But is that the way we make laws? We just leave the commercial sector to do its own thing?
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    Blog of long-running political/historical commentary site Crikey. arin2610 google blog search
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    Voluntary filtering 
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    Is internet filtering by Australian ISPs illegal? Looks at the possible legal implications of internet censorship.
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    Voluntary Censorship of Crime
Lucas Jones

Australia: Internet censorship machine quietly revs up - Information Policy - 0 views

  • Australia's biggest internet providers begin blocking an Interpol list of child abuse websites,
  • This filtering scheme – voluntary for ISPs but not users - is much milder than the mandatory filtering policy proposed by Communications Minister Stephen Conroy,
  • Optus said it was in the process of implementing blocks of Interpol's list for its customers but had not yet committed to filtering ACMA's list
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  • Senator Conroy's spokesman said the government was still committed to introducing its heavily criticised mandatory ISP filtering scheme
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    "ACMA - ISP FILTERING" google blog search
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    A number of notable Australian ISP began to block sites containing child pornography.
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    ARIN2610 ISP's to take on ACMA's blacklist on child abuse material Google blog search
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    The current state of internet censorship in Australia (July 2011)
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    Producer provides objective information on Australian Internet censorship. Talks about ACMA filtering, voluntary filtering by Optus and Telstra and the focus on filtering child pornography and other obscene sites. Also talks about he futility of the process and how easy it is to bypass.
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    Filtering URL and setting up a black list by ACMA to effectively censor offensive websites is under development. However, arguments for the censorship is still occuring (google blog search)
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    ARIN2610 googlesearch Australia's biggest internet providers begin blocking an Interpol list of child abuse websites.
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