"The Chinese government may be about to force the country's top microblog services to introduce a real-name policy in a bid to crackdown on the accountability of the increasingly influential medium."
"The Chinese government may be about to force the country's top microblog services to introduce a real-name policy in a bid to crackdown on the accountability of the increasingly influential medium."
Stephen Conroy contradicts his statements regarding internet censorship causing the public to question whether the policy on censorship has been misrepresented
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
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
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.
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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"Recent reviews and policy discussions of the various IP systems have consistently lamented the lack of hard data on the extent of the problem of infringement, what it costs and whom it affects, how firms respond, and how successful existing systems for IP enforcement are."
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)
The blog talks about the Federal Government agencies have accessed the telecommunication and Internet data many times for criminal investigations. Policies are spying users on the web.
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."
Whole blog about Senator Stephen Conroy, whose opinions on National Broadband Network and Internet Censorship the author clearly feels strongly about...
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Stephen Conroy is probably the most hated politician in Australia. A quick Google search on "Stephen Conroy" yields a great deal of negative sites, particularly in relation to his Internet Filter plans. Very few sites, however, go beyond the filter, and even fewer contain the word "cunt". I've come to fill that gap in the market.
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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.
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.
Mandatory ISP-level Filter: We are absolutely opposed to it no uncertain terms
The different ranges of censorship for different types of technology [means] we need a total overhaul of the way we deal with classification and censorship in Australia
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.