Posts Tagged ‘Google’
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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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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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PM summons Conroy over US filter concerns?
Apr 7 2010, 12:16Tweet The Australian is reporting that the Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is believed to have summoned the Communications Minister Stephen Conroy to a meeting last week after media reports revealed the US was concerned about the Internet filtering policy: THE determination of the federal government to go ahead with mandatory internet filtering is not only creating diplomatic [...]
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CNN reports on Google, Australia and Censorship
Apr 1 2010, 3:30Tweet The controversial debate over the policy of the Australian Government to censor the Internet has been now been reported on CNN. SBS News has the video of CNN interviewing a spokesperson for Google Australia, Lucinda Barlow: This is just another example of the international media place further pressure on the Australian Government. Tweet The [...]
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Senator Conroy: the Internet is not special
Apr 1 2010, 12:04Tweet In The Age this morning Senator Stephen Conroy, the Minister responsible for the Government’s plan to censor the Internet, repeated his mantra that the Internet is not special: Senator Conroy also brushed aside concerns from leading academics and technology companies that the plan to block a blacklist of “refused classification” (RC) websites for all [...]
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International media covers Internet censorship in Australia
Mar 31 2010, 10:52Tweet The last two weeks have been particularly positive for the Open Internet campaign against the Government’s proposal to censor the Internet. The policy is beginning to get the mainstream media scrutiny it deserves and Senator Stephen Conroy is clearly beginning to feel the pressure: the Government delayed the introduction of the legislation; Senator Conroy felt [...]
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Government versus Google
Mar 30 2010, 11:12Tweet On Australia Talks with Paul Barclay on ABC’s Radio National last night, Senator Stephen Conroy launched an attack on Google. You can listen to the program here or read the Sydney Morning Herald’s report on the topic: On ABC Radio last night, the majority of callers were opposed to the filters and right before the [...]
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Google: “An open web helps keep the bastards honest”
Mar 29 2010, 11:06Tweet Iarla Flynn, the Head of Policy for Google Australia and New Zealand, has a piece in The Punch today on Google’s position on the filter: At Google, we value free expression. While we recognise that protecting the free exchange of ideas and information cannot be without some limits, we believe that more information generally [...]
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SMH: “On Conroy’s information byway, there’s some roadkill”
Mar 27 2010, 11:06Tweet In the Sydney Morning Herald this morning there is a scathing op-ed piece on Senator Stephen Conroy and his plan to censor the Internet: IF YOU care about democracy, follow the worm. This worm has a name: Stephen Conroy. While Australians were distracted by another worm this week – top of the screen for [...]
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Washington Post mentions Australia’s filter
Mar 25 2010, 9:48Tweet This week the Washington Post’s technology blog, Tech Post, blogged about the policy of the Australian Government’s policy to filter the Internet: Google, Microsoft and Yahoo are among many high-tech companies that have objected to the Australian government’s plan to begin filtering Internet content. The Sydney Morning Herald reported that 147 comments were submitted to [...]
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“This can’t be the way that Australia wanted it”
Mar 24 2010, 6:09Tweet The technology blog Ars Technica recently covered Australia’s proposed Internet filter: This can’t be the way that Australia wanted it. One day after Google announced its decision to stop censoring its search results in China, the Australian government released the results of a public consultation on its own Internet censorship proposal. Predictably, Google has [...]
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Google on the Internet filter
Mar 24 2010, 4:53Tweet Google’s Head of Corporate Communications and Public Affairs for Australia and New Zealand, Lucinda Barlow, was interviewed on The Midday Report today about the Australian Government’s proposed internet filter, criticising its scope as too broad. You can watch the interview here. Tweet Google’s Head of Corporate Communications and Public Affairs for Australia and New [...]
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Australian Greens: “Google shows the way on China”
Mar 24 2010, 11:04Tweet The Australian Greens have issued a media release praising Google for no longer censoring search in China, as well as for their position on the Australian Government’s plan to censor the Internet: The Australian Greens say Google’s bold decision to stop censoring search and news results in China has shown the way for other [...]
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SMH: “Conroy’s internet censorship agenda slammed by tech giants”
Mar 23 2010, 3:26Tweet The Sydney Morning Herald has a good summary of what some of Australia’s biggest technology companies, communications academics and lobby groups have to say about the Government’s internet filtering policy in their accountability and transparency submissions: … many reiterated their concerns that the policy is fundamentally unsound and would do little to make the [...]
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Vint Cerf on internet freedom
Mar 18 2010, 2:28Tweet In an interview with the Sydney Morning Herald, Vint Cerf, one of the creators of the key technology behind the internet, discusses internet freedom: Cerf has watched the internet evolve from a military tool to a globe-spanning means of communication, used by a quarter of the world’s population. But the medium, with its borderless nature, [...]
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Oz Internet Censorship gets noticed in China
Mar 11 2010, 10:00Tweet Kevin Rudd’s plans to crack down on Internet content appear to have drawn the attention of no less than the Chinese Government. The website of the State Council Information Office recently featured an article (Google translation here) on Rudd’s endorsement of an “online ombudsman“ to deal with inappropriate Internet content and discusses the upcoming mandatory filtering legislation. [...]
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Organisations against Internet censorship
Feb 25 2010, 12:42Tweet We are looking to put together an exhaustive list of organisations that have publicly stated their opposition to mandatory Internet filtering. We have started with the organisations listed below, but if you are aware of other organisations that have come out against the Senator Conroy’s impractical and costly policy of Government censorship, please leave [...]
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Google expresses concern with the Government’s filtering proposal
Feb 15 2010, 4:28Tweet In addition to joining with the Australian Library and Information Association, Yahoo! and the Inspire Foundation in proposing some core principles for a Safer Internet today, Google also posted to its blog some further comments on the Government’s proposed mandatory Internet filter. These comments were drawn from Google’s recent submission to the Department of Broadband, Communications and [...]
