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No Clean Feed, No Censorship on Australian internet
"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" "Who watches the watchmen?" - Juvenal, Satires, VI, 347 Sometimes you question the motives behind certain politicians decisions; sometimes you question their sanity;...
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New Aussie NoCleanFeed protest graphics
UDPATE: I noticed that I forgot to index the PNG in the topic heading, meaning it was a whopping 112KiB! It's now a more respectable 28KiB. Sorry about that. For some reason I get the feeling I'll be...
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Internet censorship discussed on Aussie breakfast TV
UPDATE: If you read this blog using an RSS reader you wouldn't have seen, but Dale actually posted a comment! You can reach him at his aptly-named blog Defending Scoundrels Browsing the Electronic...
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Someone thinks internet filtering is a good idea?
With the glee over the good political news coming out of the US subsiding now, we return to Australia and Senator Conroy's plan to censor the internet. If you only read the comments people were...
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Conroy, fix the Internet before you censor it
Another very eventful day with technology. Today for no reason our home ADSL connection refuses to connect at all. It reaffirms my position on two key things: Australian internet sucks, and ADSL...
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Australian internet censorship pilot to commence
Senator Conroy's saga continues today with reports that he is ready to initiate a so called "pilot" run of the Great Australian Firewall. I wish I was making this nonsense up. According to the...
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Somehow I don't think I'll be sending this
Senator Conroy's decision to implement mandatory filers to censor every Australian internet connection is not only a dangerous idea because it will [knowingly] generate false positives, be a threat to...
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The EFA's Dale Clapperton on Triple M
For those of us who were disappointed that the Electronic Frontiers Australia chairman Dale Clapperton's recent breakfast television appearance was valuable but too short, yesterday he appeared on The...
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The GetUp Team on the Great Australian Firewall
I was forwarded an email from the GetUp team by our infinitely fabulous close family friend [Little] Sue Heins earlier this week. I think it speaks so well to the issues surrounding Senator Conroy’s...
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OPML feed for Great Australian Firewall resources
I've been blogging about Senator Conroy's daft plan to filter and censor the Australian intertubes for a while now, and with every post I create I find several more great resources on the matter that...
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Net censorship like trying to boil the ocean
Another day goes by, another group of people have a negative opinion of the Great Australian Firewall that Senator Conroy is so desperate to implement. It's got to the stage where even the American...
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I'm Blacked Out for New Zealand
My avatar for my Twitter profile as of yesterday With all the lunacy surrounding Senator Conroy's hopelessly misguided crusade against the intertubes in Australia which even if we were to ignore the...
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Aussie internet filter dead in the water and whatnot
You can tell the internet is a wondrous thing when a person like Todd Tyrtle in Canada is able to refer me to an article in a newspaper in a different city in my own country concerning something I'd...
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Clipmark: Senator Conroy on Twitter
clipped from twitter.com @SilkCharm There are 76 unique Australian Twitter users. The rest are Fake politicians. stephenconroy Fake Stephen Conroy
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Clipmark: Slashdot Aussie censorship comment
clipped from yro.slashdot.org by xenobyte (446878) on Monday March 23, @05:35PM (#27295215) Good for them if they did. This whole censorship scheme is deeply flawed and morally bankrupt. Any society...
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Live trial of the Great Firewall of Australia
I've been told by the folks over at GetUp that the Australian Federal Government will be trialling their Great Australian Firewall internet filtering system shortly, despite the overwhelming evidence...
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Lousy networks more effective than filters!
This is probably an Optus phone company problem and not an issue with the iTelephone, but on the off chance that I actually got a 3G signal here in Mawson Lakes over these last few days the data...
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The Greens aren't as... Green any more
It seems with each passing year since 2007 things have happened that have made me less optimistic and more cynical about the world. In an attempt to find the good in it, I've attributed this slide in...
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Great Firewall of Australia will happen
It's that nonsensical idea we thought common sense and overwhelming evidence against its effectiveness would kill once and for all, but here we are on the brink of the introduction of the Great...
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The Great Australian and Chinese Firewalls
"This is a fabrication. We all know [Australian currency] can be used to buy food, drink, houses, and cars. And it can also be used to buy drugs, guns, ammunition, and even prostitutes. Can you say...
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Kent Brockman on 80% Aussie firewall support
Just when we thought this nonsense couldn't get any worse, ZDNet Australia is reporting 80% of respondents to a phone poll support Labor's plan for a mandatory internet filter. Unfortunately I'm not...
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Conroy compares Aussie Firewall to China
I apologise, I know I only just posted about The Great Firewall of Australia again, but this quote was just too good to pass up: Conroy also stated in Senate Estimates yesterday, "Google were very...
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Welcome to the 21st century Conroy, Atkinson
I've briefly mentioned this particular issue in passing with regards to the Great Firewall of Australia and to a lesser extent the persecution of South Australian gamers, but now I'm going to rant and...
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Aussie filter patronises the digital generation
Reading the excellent Open Internet blog by Electronic Frontiers Australia, I came across this excellent piece about the proposed mandatory filter that puts it into some badly needed perspective. It...
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Signing the EFA's petition
Given the veracity and frequency of my posts on the proposed mandatory internet filter in Australia I'm surprised it took me so long to sign their online petition. The record of online petitions...
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Openinternet commonsensification
"Here is an opportunity to to make your arguments. I trust to the common sense of the Australian public with respect to the classification system." ~ Stephen Conroy, as reported by Renai LeMay for...
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