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
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.
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'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."
" This section provides information about on-line censorship legislation in Australia, that is, the C'th Broadcasting Services Amendment (Online Services) Act 1999 and C'th Classification Act, and State/Territory Classification Acts. (For information about various other Australian laws restricting freedom of speech, such as Commonwealth Criminal Code offences, defamation laws, racial vilification laws, etc, refer to the topic listing on EFA's Censorship and Free Speech Page). "
This blog talks about the Australia's web censorship law, established within 2000. Freedom ouse which is a non-profit U.Ohydrates organisation dedicated to spreading human rights along with freedom, undertake regular research on press independence and censorship.
Article talks about Yahoo Inc. chief Jerry Yang, who said his company was complying with local laws when information on an Internet user was passed to Chinese police in a move leading to the jailing of a mainland journalist
People are becoming more and more worried about internet censorship laws and procedures that minor and major blackouts in London cause people to question the severity of the outage.
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Article discussing the possibility that the current proposed internet censorship legislation will be scrapped with the Green Party's control of the Senate
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"With the Greens now in control of the Australian Senate is the Gillard government's plans for Internet censorship dead asks Jo Coghlan. "
Internet Industry Association chief executive Peter Coroneos - who retires from his role this week - denied the Interpol filter would see a form of censorship reach Australia's internet sector. "This is not censorship; this is law enforcement cooperation around material which is illegal to possess," he said. "We've been at pains to try and distance this initiative from the Government's mandatory filtering scheme."
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?