Archive for Mar 31 2010, 1:50
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Poll result: What digital policies did Open Internet supporters vote for?
Aug 23 2010, 6:04Tweet In the days leading up to the election, EFA ran a poll for #OpenInternet supporters asking the question: What digital policies will your vote be supporting in Saturday’s Federal Election? The poll defined the NBN as being Fibre to the Home (FTTH) as opposed to Fibre to the Node (FTTN) or a wireless broadband [...]
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94% say the Internet Filter will affect their Vote
Aug 11 2010, 5:16Tweet The EFA poll last week showed 94% of voters will have their vote swayed by the controversial Internet Filter Policy. The poll asked “Will the Proposed Internet Filter affect the way you vote in the Federal Election?”. We received over 1,100 votes over 4 days and the result shows the policy has significant influence [...]
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Is Conroy’s internet censorship scheme dead? [Video]
Aug 6 2010, 8:06Tweet With Joe Hockey’s announcement that the Coalition will vote against the government’s plan to censor the Internet, does that spell the end for Conroy’s plan for mandatory ISP censorship? Want to show your support for an Open Internet? Here’s how Keep up to date with the latest news on Twitter and Facebook Tweet With Joe Hockey’s [...]
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POLL: Will the Proposed Internet Filter affect the way you vote in the Federal Election?
Aug 5 2010, 4:24Tweet Please click on the sharing and bookmarking links below to encourage the largest number of people possible to have their say. Tweet Please click on the sharing and bookmarking links below to encourage the largest number of people possible to have their say.
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5 ways around the filter in 2 minutes [Video]
Aug 4 2010, 6:40Tweet We object to the Government’s plan to censor the internet for a variety of reasons – it won’t help parents, it won’t help police, it’s secretive, it costs a lot of money. Perhaps these points are debatable, but one isn’t – experts agree, anybody who wants to will be able to get around the [...]
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Help fight for an Open Internet
Jul 20 2010, 11:14Tweet We’re hiring! As the country heads into an election and scrutiny of policies and issues intensifies, EFA needs help with our outreach efforts and so we’re looking for somebody to come on board and help get the message out to the community. Love social networking? Passionate about the issues? We’d like to know you. [...]
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Conroy announces delay, filter to go ahead
Jul 9 2010, 2:27Tweet Communications Minister Stephen Conroy today announced that the filter will be delayed for 12 months to complete a review of the “RC” category of prohibited content, but will still go ahead following that review. Some coverage of the announcement can be found here and here. EFA’s responded with this media release. Tweet Communications Minister [...]
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Gizmodo launches “Fight the Filter” campaign
Jul 8 2010, 9:05Tweet Prominent tech site Gizmodo today launched a campaign entitled “Fight the Filter“, to spread awareness of the plan and the reasons why Australians should be worried. This week will feature a series of posts by experts on what is planned, how it has developed, and what the concerns are. The filter is not going away, [...]
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Gillard takes aim at the net’s “dark side”
Jul 8 2010, 12:11Tweet In case you were hoping that a change in PM might lead to a change in policy, think again. On Darwin radio yesterday, Prime Minister Gillard continued the Government’s push for mandatory internet censorship, taking aim at the internet’s “dark side”. If there’s any change on this issue, it’s merely a slight shift in [...]
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It’s Time to Tell Mum
May 27 2010, 7:00Tweet We’re excited to announce that EFA have today launched a new campaign to raise public awareness of the Government’s internet filter: “Time to Tell Mum.” The campaign features comedian Akmal Saleh and exhorts Australians to tell their mums about the filter plan and what it won’t do for Australian families. One of the big [...]
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On folly, freedom and filters
May 14 2010, 10:57Tweet EFA Board Member, Stephen Collins, spoke yesterday at an event at Parliament House hosted by the Menzies Research Centre in a debate with Tony McLellan of the Australian Christian Lobby. The audience was primarily members of the Australian Liberal Students Federation; young Liberals destined for jobs as political staffers and politicians. Below is the [...]
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Senator Ludlam’s anti-filter speech
May 13 2010, 12:38Tweet Yesterday, Greens Senator Scott Ludlam comprehensively attacked the filter on the floor of the Senate. The attack was accurate, irrefutable and timely. EFA have some comments here along with the transcript, but you can watch the speech in its entirety below. Tweet Yesterday, Greens Senator Scott Ludlam comprehensively attacked the filter on the floor [...]
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Tonight on your ABC … the Internet filter
May 10 2010, 1:57Tweet On ABC1 this evening both Four Corners and Q&A will focus on the Australian Government’s policy to introduce mandatory ISP-level Internet filtering. On Four Corners, reporter Quentin McDermott will examine the filter in a story called “Access Denied”: A story that reveals how an apparently well meaning attempt by government to protect children from [...]
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Why the Government should “do an ETS” on the mandatory Internet filter
May 4 2010, 1:13Tweet In the Sydney Morning Herald this morning, Bella Counihan suggests that the Rudd Government should “do an ETS” on the mandatory Internet filter and scrap the policy: The Rudd government’s internet filter has always been a kind of policy duck – flapping on the surface, quacking all the right things but with lots more [...]
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Senator Sue Boyce: “Internet Filter Proposal Descending Into Farce”
Apr 30 2010, 2:09Tweet Senator Sue Boyce, Liberal Senator for Queensland, has issued this media release slamming the Rudd Government’s proposal to censor the Internet: The Rudd Government’s hare-brained proposal to censor the internet was descending into complete farce with the Prime Minister admitting he didn’t have a clue what was going on, Liberal Senator Sue Boyce, said [...]
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Filter looks as though it is delayed
Apr 29 2010, 3:58Tweet The Australian is reporting that the Government has shelved the introduction of the filter until after the election: KEVIN Rudd has put another election promise on the backburner with his controversial internet filtering legislation set to be shelved until after the next election. A spokeswoman for Communications Minister Stephen Conroy said yesterday the legislation [...]
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DBCDE forum reveals filter legislation not drafted
Apr 29 2010, 3:57Tweet Delimiter has reported today on screenshots of a forum being hosted internally by the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy (DBCDE), which suggest that there is yet to be a complete draft of the planned legislation and the possibility that it will be made an offence to promote methods of circumventing the filter: [...]
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SMH comes out against the filter
Apr 26 2010, 4:03Tweet Today’s Sydney Morning Herald, in an editorial entitled “Conroy tilts at a web windmill“, sharply criticised the filtering plan. (Scroll down to see the filter piece). The editorial, in only 400 words, accurately summarises the tone of the debate thus far and puts forward the key objections why those who understand the plan are so [...]
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Libs take Government to task over U.S. filter opposition
Apr 22 2010, 3:09Tweet EFA has received the text of a letter from Liberal Party Senator Sue Boyce to Communications Minister Stephen Conroy and Foreign Minister Stephen Smith demanding they come clean on the nature of representations made by the U.S. government regarding their internet censorship policy. Recent revelations that the U.S. Department of State had broached the subject [...]
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“Net filter patronises the digital generation”
Apr 22 2010, 1:44Tweet In a good piece for the Sydney Morning Herald this week, Nina Funnell argues the Internet filter patronises the digital generation: Would somebody please not think of the children. At least not while we are discussing internet censorship. This may sound like an odd request given that, historically, almost all censorship debates have pivoted around [...]
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Google shine a light on government takedowns
Apr 22 2010, 1:31Tweet Colin Jacobs has posted on the EFA website some information about Google’s Government Requests page, announced here, which shows breakdowns by country of the number of requests Google gets to remove information by service. Read the post here. Tweet Colin Jacobs has posted on the EFA website some information about Google’s Government Requests page, announced here, which shows breakdowns by [...]
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Bjorn Landfeldt: Internet filter isn’t future-proof
Apr 20 2010, 4:24Tweet ARN reports on the upcoming Internet filtering forum at the University of Sydney on April 28: The Federal Government’s proposed Internet filter will be impotent in a few years time, an IT pundit claims. University of Sydney associate professor of IT, Bjorn Landfeldt, said the ISP-based blacklist filtering system suggested by the Government was impractical [...]
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Reasons from the left to oppose the Internet filter
Apr 16 2010, 9:04Tweet This guest post is written by Mark Bahnisch from Lavartus Prodeo for our series of blog posts on the importance of online civil liberties as part of EFA’s 2010 Fundraising Campaign … There are a range of good arguments against the Rudd government’s internet filter, some emphasised for persuasive or tactical reasons, some reflective [...]
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7:30 Report: Internet filter policy under fire
Apr 15 2010, 12:25Tweet Last night the ABC’s 7:30 Report covered the Australian Government’s proposed Internet filtering policy. You can read the transcript here, or watch the video below: There is also an extended interview with Senator Stephen Conroy that you can download here. Tweet Last night the ABC’s 7:30 Report covered the Australian Government’s proposed Internet filtering [...]
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Do web filters hinder free speech?
Apr 15 2010, 12:03Tweet Al Jazeera has posted a thoughtful opinion piece on Internet filtering by Robert Faris and Jillian York. Robert Faris is the Research Director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. Jillian York also works at the Berkman Center and is involved with Global Voices Online. The piece is particularly concerned about what [...]
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Getting around the filter
Apr 14 2010, 3:09Tweet In a blog post for ZDNet, David Braue explains how easy it will be for people to get around the Government’s proposed Internet filter: Years ago, I was with a group of journalists discussing region-coded DVDs with the head of a large electronics manufacturer. We asked how vendors got away with stripping the region-coding [...]
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“Treating Aussie internet users like a bunch of dodos”
Apr 14 2010, 11:37Tweet In The Punch today, Lyall Mercer has a suggestion for Senator Stephen Conroy: Attention Senator Conroy: Forget about filtering the internet. Instead please pour your energy, time and (our) money into providing Australia with an internet – and a phone system for that matter – that works, is accessible and affordable. Read the rest [...]
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Senator Conroy at The Sydney Institute
Apr 13 2010, 6:22Tweet On Monday night Senator Stephen Conroy spoke at The Sydney Institute on the topic, ”Reform Unleashes Transformation.” We blogged earlier about what Senator Conroy had to say about the filter (read it here), but you can now also listen to his address here. Listen to other addresses from The Sydney Institute here. Tweet On Monday [...]
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Filtering on Q & A
Apr 13 2010, 3:43Tweet On the ABC current affairs panel show Q & A last night, the panel was asked about the Australian Government’s plan to introduce mandatory ISP level filtering. The US Ambassador to Australia, Jeff Bleich, as well as the Shadow Treasurer, Joe Hockey, and the Minister for Housing and the Status of Women, Tanya Plibersek, [...]
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US Ambassador critical of Conroy’s filter
Apr 13 2010, 1:41Tweet The Australian reports on comments the US Ambassador to Australia, Jeff Bleich, made about the proposed internet filter on Q & A last night: CHILD pornographers can be captured and prosecuted without having to resort to mandatory internet filters, says Barack Obama confidante and US Ambassador to Australia Jeff Bleich. The Rudd government has [...]
