With a reported 338 million internet users, China undoubtedly has a massive online presence to be reckoned with. Like everything else of value in China though the internet population is treated as a commodity and the government does everything it can to control it. Google made headlines earlier this week when they announced they’d had [...]
Remember when you were a little kid and your parents stopped you from using certain words? Ninety nine percent of the time these wound up being swear words and if you were anything like me, getting creative to circumvent these banned words was irresistible. So you’d parade around sprouting off your new found cleverness, revelling [...]
Earlier this month I was forced to accept the effectiveness of Stephen Conroy’s ‘child porn’ agenda to push the upcoming internet filter through. It appeared that the greatest nation on earth for internet censorship, China, had learnt from our Conroy and based their new pc filter around his sales pitch. China plans to require that [...]
Australian internet filtering has taken a back seat coverage wise whilst we wait and see the results of the current live trials taking place with various ISPs. What with the government announcing that there’s no “criteria to determine whether trials of the scheme are a success”, the current trials appear to be nothing more then [...]
Nazis and abortion are two guaranteed topics to push the boundaries of free speech online. Sadly it is usually the vocal minority (isn’t it always) that tend to shout and scream until things are banned or censored. Slowly liberties are eroded and the rights of one group begin to trump that of another group. This [...]
So it seems the geniuses at Comedy Central have decided that nobody outside of the US is to watch full episodes of The Daily Show and the Colbert Report online. The rest of the world can still watch the segmented bits but as of Monday 27th April, 2009 non US browsers are unable to watch [...]
Recently Chris Chapman, head of the ACMA, sent out an email to his staff which has subsequently been leaked to the media. Whilst the entire contents of the email haven’t been publicly released, most likely due to condifentiality concerns, News.com.au have quoted some snippets from the leaked email. “I write to you because you cannot [...]
I can’t remember the last time a member of parliament publicly commented on the defense of a defendant in a law suit. Can you? Earlier this week Stephen Conroy (geez I’m starting to think I need a dedicated blog for all the articles I’ve written about this guy), publicly had a go at iiNet’s defense [...]
Some sneaky bugger (Kevin Rudd?) seems to have taken matters into his or her own hands and put Australia’s very own minister for broadband, communications and the digitial economy up for sale on ebay. Link was working as of 01/04/09 11:12pm but i’ve added a screenshot as an archive before it’s inevitably removed (click to [...]
In a much more serious and informative format, Conroy and a cast of more appropriate question-askers took to the airwaves at SBS for 60 minutes of gritty filter discussion. Apart from need for speed addicted emo kids claiming the internet was to blame for unsolicited bluetooth content, self indulgent middle-aged pornaholics and a little boy [...]
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