The underlying Australian internet censorship process is unworkable, and always will be. Opponents of the filter are busy proving it, with complaints about iTunes selling MA15+ films without requiring age verification.
Government censorship
How the Falun Gong powered Iran’s protests
When it comes to subverting government internet censorship, few are more experienced than China’s Falun Gong. So when Iranians started using the net to organise protests, the Falun Gong thought they’d lend a hand…
Newsweek defend imprisoned journalist
Newsweek’s Iranian correspondent Maziar Bahari has been imprisoned in Iran since 21 June, without formal charges or access to a lawyer. The news-magazine call on the Iranian government for justice.
Is Sri Lanka trying to silence the media?
Critics of the Sri Lankan government in the media are being abducted and beaten… what’s going on?
ISP filtering: who’s exploiting the kids?
The elevation of children as the justification for censorship will make this campaign harder to stop, writes Bernard Keane.
Business pays the price for government censorship
Government censorship of the internet took another significant but unheralded step forward last Friday. But it could have unintended consequences, writes Simon Bush.
