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)
This article is about about censorship in general but more specifically about the idea of governments being able to restrict access to social networking during events such as the recent London riots. This also leads into the Australian goverment's internet censorship proposal.
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.
A US blogger isn't happy because China is happy that UK PM, David Cameron, wants to block social networking sites so that individuals can't organise anymore rioting.
EFA campaign against the clean feed solution to internet censorship, arguing that it is ineffective, won't actually protect the children etc and is far too opaque - the blacklist being secret is troubling
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."
International internet regulation is that so many dictatorial nations have sided with the idea. Internet supplied people with datas on news and informations through the net media. It is essentially decentralized and open to everyone is what has made its widespread use.