Tag Archive | Australia
Censorship in America: Hate Speech Overview
Hate speech is, outside the law, any communication that disparages a person or a group on the basis of some characteristic such as race, color, ethnicity, gender, disability, sexual orientation, nationality, religion, or other characteristic. In law, hate speech is any speech, gesture or conduct, writing, or display which is forbidden because it may incite [...]
Dangerous Cybercrime Treaty Pushes Surveillance and Secrecy Worldwide
Written by Katitza Rodriguez As part of an emerging international trend to try to ‘civilize the Internet’, one of the world’s worst Internet law treaties–the highly controversial Council of Europe (CoE) Convention on Cybercrime–is back on the agenda. Canada and Australia are using the Treaty to introduce new invasive, online surveillance laws, many of which [...]
Aussie Censorship Filters Are a Joke
After huge protests, a backdown from the government and shedloads of wasted cash, Australia’s voluntary “rabbit proof fence” of censorship protection was rolled out today. In a move claimed to “protect children” the Australian government initially wanted a filter which would sit on every ISP’s computer. It would filter out access to every website that [...]
Hacktivists Force Pause in Australian Net Censorship
At least one Australian ISP is wavering on plans to begin blocking illegal websites next month because of fear of reprisals from “internet vigilantes.” It came to light yesterday that despite a climbdown by the Australian government, four of the country’s internet providers, including the two largest, were planning to launch a voluntary “internet filtering” [...]
Censors Should Grow Up: Adults Can Handle Sex
The Australian censorship system blanches most consistently not at violence, but at sex. Torturing people to death presents relatively little problem to the censors. But dare to show actual sex on film or in print? Unless it’s animal copulation of the non-human kind, its sale is banned in every state. This is the most baffling [...]
ISP-Imposed Censorship Coming to Australia Next Month
Two of Australia’s biggest ISPs (and telcos), Telstra and Optus, will commence “voluntary” censorship of 500 websites to defend against “child abuse”, even though the child abusers moved off the standard web a long time ago to a galaxy of underground webs far, far away from what you’ll find on Google. Any Australian stupid enough [...]
Australian Journalist Arrested Over Facebook Photo
By Kevin Rennie Australian journalist arrested and iPad seized! No it’s not Julian Assange. But Ben Grubb’s brief encounter with Queensland authorities raised several serious cyber issues including social media privacy and security, police powers of arrest and confiscation of digital devices, plus journalists’ rights. As Tigtog explained at Larvatus Prodeo: Fairfax journalist Ben Grubb [...]
Censorship Review to Reveal All
Source: PSNews The Australian Law Reform Commission is to review the Australian censorship and classification system. Attorney-General Robert McClelland said the final terms of reference for the review of the National Classification Scheme had been released following community consultation. Mr McClelland said the review would consider issues such as existing Commonwealth, State and Territory classification [...]
Australia’s NBN Co. is the Trojan for Internet Censorship
Source: Independent Media Centre Australia Why on earth would the government commit billions of dollars so that Australians can be on an even playing field with international competitors? Isn’t that the whole point of the internet; the fact that it IS an even playing field!? All reasons justifying the implementation of NBN are broad and [...]
Let Us Stop Pussyfooting Around Our Censorship Laws
↑ Grab this Headline Animator Source: The Australian – By Ross Fitzgerald The religious lobby and prudes on the ALP‘s Right continue to treat Australians like children FEDERAL Attorney-General Robert McClelland and Justice Minister Brendan O’Connor have announced a shake-up of censorship law in Australia through a review of the 1995 Classification Act. This act [...]
Global Net Crackdown to Shatter ‘Utopian’ Internet: Experts Say
Source: The Sydney Morning Herald – By Ben Grubb Egypt‘s internet shutdown is just the tip of the iceberg and a global net crackdown is inevitable, leading internet experts say. Already the US has moved to implement an internet “kill switch“, which would allow the President in a “cyber emergency” to shut down certain parts [...]
Zombies vs. Censorship: Which is worse?
Source: examiner.com – By Ben Anderson Ok, this really makes me sick, and I’ve seen Deadgirl twice! According to if.com, the director of The Melbourne Underground Film Festival (MUFF) is facing police charges because they screened L.A. Zombie last year. That’s some high-grade BS to be sure. If you don’t know L.A. Zombie, it’s probably [...]
