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chloexue

Interview with Internet censor from an unnamed Middle Eastern country - Boing Boing - 0 views

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    an unnamed middle eastern country started an internet censorship
Lucas Jones

Internet censorship in Australia | ieyenews - 1 views

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    This post talks about The Broadcasting Services Amendment (Online Services) Act 1990. It talks about the ineffectiveness of filtering software and the cost to Ausralia. Google Blog
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    The Australian Internet Industry has a list of 16 approved filters. However, testing by Computer Choice found that innocuous content, such as medical sites, were often blocked while some adult content passed through the filter. The filtering software products are ineffective, and Australia cannot control websites hosted outside its borders.
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    Article on Australian Governement censoring websites. Spending $9.8 million. Possibly futile. Not many Australians enjoy a truly free online experience (only 21%).
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    Australia remained one of the strictest western country to censor internet and filter ISPs (google blog search)
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    ARIN2610 googleblog "Australia's off-line censorship laws are among the most restrictive in Western democracies and the Net censorship laws are more akin to those in totalitarian regimes than to those, if any, in other countries purporting to be Western democracies."
Jacob Andrews

Australia's 'Net Filter Plan Gets Worse - 0 views

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chloexue

Internet Censorship By Country Videos - Mitra Videos :: Video Resources On The Net - 0 views

limle lee

Seo companies philippines - 1 views

started by limle lee on 22 Nov 12 no follow-up yet
Kaiya Aboagye

The Open Net Inittiative - 0 views

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    ONI isis a collaborative partnership of three institutions: the Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto; the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University; and the SecDev Group (Ottawa). It aims to investigate, expose and analyze Internet filtering and surveillance practices in a credible and non-partisan fashion to provide education and policy advice on issues. (clusty)
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"
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.
lin zhu

Internet Censorship- Overcome it with VPN assigned US IP Address | LiveCampus.org - 0 views

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    Internet censorship can really limit your activities on the internet. Mostly, countries ban some websites from being used with regional IP addresses while sometimes the websites don't give access to IP addresses of certain regions. However, the problems of internet censorship can be solved with the help of VPNs.
F S

Energies Better Spent on Rights than a Republic - 0 views

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    While Australia has been debating the important symbolic issues raised by a republic, other countries have achieved significant reform in the field of human rights. We are now alone among comparable nations in not having a statement of basic rights.
Harry MacDonald

Australia makes top 4 of internet freedom list - Computerworld - Natural Language Proce... - 0 views

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    Australia has scored highly for internet freedom in its first appearance on a Freedom House report into 37 countries, but violation of user rights and lack of access for some users were cited as concerns.
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