The Coalition has proposed greater internet censorship as part of its counter-proposals on gambling reform. The US experience shows it doesn’t work.
Internet filtering
Is voluntary internet filtering a crime?
The voluntary filtering being introduced by some of Australia’s major internet service providers (ISPs) is on shaky legal ground.
Internet filtering isn’t compulsory, but everyone will volunteer
Australia’s mandatory internet filtering by internet service providers (ISPs) won’t happen for at least two years. But we’re getting filtering anyway. Voluntarily.
Cyberspace freedom … except where they upset the copyright industry
The Obama Administration’s Cyberspace strategy places heavy emphasis on freedom, but in practice it’s only as much freedom as the copyright industry wants
Letter from Hanoi: freedom of speech fails as net filter falters
Vietnam is acting like what some have called an enemy of the internet is true. Whether it’s doing a very good job is up for debate, writes a Hanoi resident.
Conroy: We didn’t claim filtering was a silver-bullet solution
ISP filtering is just one component of the government’s cyber-safety policy, writes Senator Stephen Conroy.
Day: In defence of Conroy’s filter
Mark Day defends the Minister Stephen Conroy’s plan to filter Australia’s web content with a challenge to its critics: if you don’t like it, make a plausible case for why we need access to “online bestiality or child sex abuse”. Them’s fightin’ words.
Where do Australia’s ISPs stand on the filter?
ZDNet has quizzed the big Aussie Internet Service Providers over their positions on mandatory internet filtering, compiling a list on who stands where. Does your ISP hate freedom?
Conroy’s continued lies and gaffes
Computers don’t respond to rhetoric, persuasion or emotional appeals. Computers don’t have a “mostly” function. Geeks, therefore, demand clear language, writes Stilgherrian.
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.
Who supports compulsory Internet filtering, exactly?
GetUp!’s “Save The Net” campaign and a new survey by Netspace paint the supporters of compulsory Internet filtering as the minority, 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 case for internet filtering
Is Conroy stupid?
