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 [...]

Posted on March 19, 2010 at 1:45 am by Fred · Permalink · Leave a comment
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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 [...]

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 [...]

Posted on January 23, 2010 at 12:10 am by Fred · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Dear Minister Conroy

I forwarded correspondence to Australia’s Communications Minister, Stephen Conroy, on 17/12/09 in relation to the announcement of compulsory internet filtering.
 
Original correspondence included:
Dear Minister Conroy
I am outraged with the announcement that compulsory internet filtering will proceed.
There are currently around 110 million operational websites online with in excess of 25 billion indexed pages. How does one review [...]