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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."
Kat Finch

FAQ: Australian federal election 2010 explained | News.com.au - 0 views

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    Australian Federal Election 2010 FAQ.
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    This is an article responding to popular FAQ's and conceptions about the 2010 Australian federal election. Clusty had assigned categories such as "politics", "Australian government", "Australian Labor Party", "democracy", and "government election."
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    Category - Australian Federal Election 2010 Explained
chloexue

Timothy Karr: High Noon for Internet Freedom - 0 views

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    as democracy movements worldwide struggle to speak out via the internet. people has the high noon for internet freedom
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"
Kat Finch

Australian elections, Australian election results, governments and parties in the Austr... - 1 views

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    Government Campaign  Political  Prime Minister  Parliament Leader  ABC, Australian Broadcasting Corporation Commission  Maps Australian Labor Party
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Chris Lim

Filtering in Oz: Australia's Foray into Internet Censorship by Derek Bambauer :: SSRN - 0 views

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    Discusses Australia as a representation of Western democracies towards legitimating Internet filtering as opposed to other alternatives that are available to prevent access to "undersirable information".
Tom Brewer

Links - Does Internet Create Democracy - 0 views

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