Archive for the ‘Censorship’ Category
How to subvert the firewall
When the Australian Minister of National Enlightenment and Propaganda fires up the Great Firewall of Australia, the website of pro-euthanasia group Exit International will be among those blocked from access because of its “RC” content.
Exit International approached the Pirate Party of Australia and asked if they would kindly prepare instruction suitable for 70+ year olds [...]
In: Censorship, Internet Filtering · Tagged with: Censorship, cleanfeed, euthanasia, internet filter, Pirate Party, Stephen Conroy
World Wide Web of Censorship
The Australian reports:
The Obama administration has questioned the Rudd government’s plan to introduce an internet filter, saying it runs contrary to the US’s foreign policy of encouraging an open internet to spread economic growth and global security.
Officials from the State Department have raised the issue with Australian counterparts as the US mounts a diplomatic assault [...]
In: ACTA, Censorship, Internet Filtering, New World Order, Stupid Politics, copyright · Tagged with: 3-strikes, ACTA, copyright-theft, internet censorship
Conroy in a pickle
Paris-based media rights group Reporters Without Borders last week put Australia on its list of countries “under surveillance” in its recent “Internet Enemies” report.
Australia joins the company of countries in danger of making the main enemies list which includes Russia, Turkey and South Korea.
The report added that in South Korea; “draconian laws are creating too [...]
In: Internet Filtering · Tagged with: clean feed, EFA, internet censorship, internet filter, Stephen Conroy
Block the Filter
Reminder – National day of action. On the 6th of March 2010, Block the Filter, Stop Internet Censorship and Stop the Filter will be holding events in Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney. More info – www.block-the-filter.org/
I don’t want to be a broken record, but the mandatory internet censorship policy that our Government has [...]
In: Internet Filtering · Tagged with: clean feed, internet censorship, internet filter, online safety, RC, refused classification, Stephen Conroy
Free speech now $20K speech
Detailed in the previous post, revelations of South Australian Attorney General Michael Atkinson, suing one of his own constituents for the sum of $20K, because she was brazen enough to complain about Atkinson in a confidential email which she sent to her local Council, who then forwarded the correspondence to Atkinson.
Last night in the ABC [...]
In: Censorship · Tagged with: AG, Attorney General, defamation, Michael Atkinson
Dumb & Dumber
What have dumb & dumber been up to lately?
Dumb Stephen Conroy (Minister of Enlightenment) in charge of censoring the internet in Australia, was sprung last week censoring his own website.
Andrew Ramadge – News.com
The front page of Minister Conroy’s official website displays a list of topics connected to his portfolio, along with links to more [...]
In: Censorship, Internet Filtering · Tagged with: Attorney General, bikies, cat bbq, internet censorship, internet filter, Michael Atkinson, R18+, RC, St Clair, Stephen Conroy
Who is Michael Atkinson?
More slanderous garbage against gamers has once more been flowing from the mouth of South Australian Attorney General Michael Atkinson.
In an interview on ABC’s Good Game TV show, Atkinson alleged receiving “hate material” from gamers.
“I don’t know who sends me this filthy material but I get my electorate office email spammed, about 2 o’clock in [...]
In: Censorship · Tagged with: AG, Attorney General, bikies, defamation, Michael Atkinson, R18+, RC, refused classification, SA Labor Party, SDA
Copyright theft or Big Brother by stealth?
The ABC reports that “the Australian film and television industry has lost a case against a major internet service provider whose customers downloaded pirated movies and television programs” – Hooray!
The legal action followed a five-month investigation by the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft.
The companies claimed iiNet infringed copyright by failing to stop users engaging [...]
In: Censorship, Internet Filtering · Tagged with: ACTA, BitTorrent, copyright, file sharing, iiNet, internet censorship, internet filter
Atkinson; Humble pie tastes like sh*t!
Image from The Inquisitr
South Australia’s Attorney General Michael Atkinson, has crash landed back to Earth after completing a double back flip (with half pike), and is now enduring the sour taste of humble pie, forcibly spoon fed while under restraint.
A furore erupted on the 2nd of Feb, when it became widespread public knowledge [...]
In: Censorship · Tagged with: AG, Attorney General, gamers4croydon, internet censorship, Michael Atkinson, R18+, SA Labor Party, video games
Blackout Week
It’s been 2 weeks now since I last submitted queries regarding compulsory internet filtering to the Minister of Enlightenment, Senator Conroy, see previous post. I still await reply and therefore shall begin sending his office frequent requests.
There are many great protests evolving against the announced internet filtering policy. One group registered the domain stephenconroy.com.au which [...]
In: Internet Filtering · Tagged with: clean feed, EFA, internet censorship, internet filter, RC, refused classification, Stephen Conroy
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