Senator Stephen Conroy must soon set aside the joys of taking the axe to Telstra — satisfying though that must be — and return to a topic he surely dreads: internet censorship.
Internet filter
Gaming classification farce meets Conroy’s net filter
Unless Communications Minister Conroy’s proposed Internet filtering mechanism has some smarts, a whole bunch of innovative activity will be lost with the smattering of virtual sex clubs.
I’ll compile your secret black list, Minister Conroy
If you want the country moulded by an invisible hand, Stephen, and I notice you do, then I’m the guy, writes Anson Cameron.
Conroy: the slimy tentacles of Howard’s internet
Unlike the Howard Government, Labor has vowed to protect every orifice on every citizen, writes Fake Stephen Conroy.
Outclassed Conroy hides in his bedroom
The audience is now smarter than you are because they have more time and there’s more of them. Government ministers no longer own the conversation, writes Stilgherrian.
The filtering wars: EFA vs Hamilton
EFA is concerned, as should anyone be, that the government is taking a new censorship power for itself that is opaque and not subject to review, writes Colin Jacobs.
Google takes a slash and the world ends
Over the weekend two events highlighted the ramshackle nature of the evolution of the Internet, and highlighted yet another risk of secret ISP-level Internet censorship, writes Stilgherrian.
Another nail in the coffin of Conroy’s Rabbit-Proof Firewall
What a great way to “protect the children”, eh? Take money from the police, where it’d do some good, and instead burn it on a poorly-defined IT project, writes Stigherrian.
Hamilton: Net p-rn goes way beyond naughty
Net libertarians greet any suggested degradation with howls of protest because they refuse to acknowledge the extent of the social problem the Government is trying to address, writes Clive Hamilton.
Senators caught up in the Fielding Filth Filter
Steve Fielding is obsessed with pornography and now he has managed to impose the views of his bizarre monotheistic cult on other Senators and their staff, reports Bernard Keane.
