Meet Facebook’s porn copsTo keep Facebook clean and friendly for advertisers, the site employs a team of “porn cops” who spend their days monitoring and censoring users’ content.
Censorship
Banned in Beirut
Despite being named UNESCO’s 2009 World Book Capital City, a long list of books, films and music are banned in Beirut.
China employs “market-based” media censorship
Pressure from advertisers and executives with CCP ties have made China’s media industry effectively self-censoring.
Indian media in recession denial
Indian newspapers are banning the use of the word “recession” in connection with their country. Apparently a recession is only something that happens in America.
#amazonfail: the book giant begins to rebuild its image
Amazon have labelled their cataloguing cock-up on the weekend as “embarrassing and ham-fisted”. We look at what the pundits are saying. Crikey intern Eloise Keating writes.
#amazonfail: With book monopolies like these, no-one is safe
On Easter Sunday, weird things happened at uberbookseller Amazon, when the site suddenly reclassified certain titles as containing “adult” content.
Media briefs: Never mind the lesbian kiss, Home and Away gets violent
That kiss … Chicago Sun-Times collapses… New life for Life Magazine…
Razer: Conroy should not be surprised at blacklist leak
The emergence of the ACMA blacklist should have been as shocking to Stephen Conroy as, say, another tabloid sashay from Lindsay Lohan, writes Helen Razer.
Fake Stephen Conroy: we’re in trouble
We can’t allow these Mountain Dew-sucking deviants to keep running circles around us, writes Fake Stephen Conroy.
Blacklist leak: ACMA not cut out to play cyber-cop
The leaking of ACMA’s blacklist perfectly demonstrated the faulty logic behind the Government’s net filtering proposal, writes Bernard Keane.
ACMA’s blacklist just got read all over
The more you try to hide your controversial Internet blacklist, Senator Conroy, the bigger you make it, the bigger the incentive for someone to leak it, writes Stilgherrian.
ACMA issues threats, meets the Streisand Effect
Now ACMA is going after pages that merely link to blacklisted material, writes Stilgherrian.
SA Attorney General throws down the gauntlet to gamers
Last week, SA Attorney General Michael Atkinson laid down a challenge to Australian gamers: If you want R18+ video games, run against me at the next election, writes Ruth Brown.
Everything in moderation … even for Andrew Bolt
The launch of Pure Poison has clearly made Andrew Bolt uncomfortable as the reality of his biased comments policy comes in for more public scrutiny, writes Scott Bridges.
What is it about Bob Debus and Japanese p-rn?
It appears the dead hand of Phillip Ruddock still grips free speech in Australia — with some help from South Australia’s Attorney-General, writes Bernard Keane.
Backman column: Israeli lobby censorship
Greg Barns and Michael Potter critically assess the Backman article, the Australian Jewish lobby and media censorship.
So Conroy’s Internet filter won’t block political speech, eh?
Conroy’s protecting us from ped-philes, stopping terrorists, that sort of thing. It’s like the regulation we have for TV, films and books. Except it’s not. It’s not even close, writes Stilgherrian.
Censoring the bombing in Gaza: Some demands
The unilateral nature of the Israeli temporary truce must be a concern, writes Robert Johnson in Jerusalem.
The lies of the internet censors: Your. Filter. Won’t. Work.
It’s time to call the purveyors of pervasive internet censorship out on their lies and demand to know why they’re not advocating the real solutions to child s-xual abuse, writes Stilgherrian.
Internet censorship. Nice idea, just not practical.
The internet is more than a new-fangled cross between a TV and a newspaper. Regardless of your position on the desirability of applying a censorship system, the practicalities make it impossible, writes Colin Jacobs.
The Kookas: dissecting the Victorian version of Underbelly
We know this miniseries is only a fictional dramatisation but some things in Underbelly are just not true, write The Kooka Brothers.
The Great Firewall of China: how it works, how to bypass it
Now that it’s getting in the way of the Olympics coverage, everyone in the world is getting indignant over the Great Firewall of China. Stilgherrian gives a guided tour.
Internet filters a success, if success = failure
When it comes to internet filters, there’s bad news and not quite so bad news. But you won’t hear Senator Conroy say that out loud, writes Stilgherrian.
LA Times / Wednesday, 6 May 2009
Controvertial right-wing US radio host Michael Savage has been banned from entering Britain on the grounds that he is a “hate promoter”.