What is happening to Australian democracy with Stephen Conroy’s Great Firewall of China? Where does that put us in comparison to the rest of the world?
Internet filter
Spinning around with no filter facts
There’s lots of spin in Conroy’s internet filter report, but it’s missing some key facts. How many people were in the trial? What happens on high volume websites? When we realise the government is @#$@ing us over?
The Twitterverse filter reaction
As #nocleanfeed trends not just Australia, but internationally on Twitter David Swan examines how the Tweeps reacted to the internet filter news. It seems with lots of indignation against @KevinRuddPM.
National Censorship Day
With the announcement of the Government’s internet filter, 15 December will forever mark the day Australia joined the slippery slope to censoring freedom of speech, says David Braue.
Kevin Rudd wants to filter your internet
The Rudd Government has announced it will go ahead with plans to filter Australia’s internet. Many Australians will be pissed off, but will they be angry enough to influence the next federal election? asks Possum Comitatus.
Crikey Says: Conroy’s cyber-safety conundrum
Today, Stephen Conroy will finally announce the outcome of the Government’s prolonged deliberations over how to resolve its self-created dilemma over cyber-safety.
Conroy’s internet filter dread
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 filtering: speed won’t be the issue
With word that Conroy’s internet filter doesn’t affect ISPs’ speed, the debate will now centre around whether internet filtering actually “works” or not.
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.
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.
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.
