In speaking to the press today Stephen Conroy has continued to contradict himself over the proposed controversial filter. Senator Conroy said the Government had never claimed the filter itself would stop child pornography. Yet here Conroy is just days ago stating the “whole purpose” of the blacklist which the filter will be primarily relying on; [...]

Once again Australian society is being held to ransom by wowser family groups. This time they’ve clashed with Channel 7 over a lesbian plot line in their tv soap ‘Home and Away’. The complaints from groups such as ‘Pro Family Perspectives’ revolve around a kissing scene between a two females in a recently developed lesbian [...]

Last night we had the pleasure of viewing Stephen Conroy weasel his way out of a series of questions asked by the guy who’s face is just not quite right, the 17-years-on the-internet bald guy expert, the hippie who needs a haircut expert. the asian student who watches one too many movies and then the [...]

It appears somebody has hacked the Australian Government Classification and Classification Review Board website. Welcome to the Classification Website This site contains information about the boards that have the right to CONTROL YOUR FREEDOMZ. The Classification Board has the right to not just classify content (the name is an ELABORATE TRICK), but also the right [...]

Stephen Conroy told a press conference this morning that “people can continue to put up the lists if they are proud to do that”. Meanwhile halfway across the world in Germany, Theodor Reppe, owner of the German mirror of Wikileaks (wikileaks.de), was the target of a police raid. Hosting a copy of the list myself, [...]

Stephen Conroy spoke at a Cisco event today in Sydney and has basically admitted that he can make no guarantees that once the filter is in place, much more then child porn will be added to it. “The parliament of Australia is made up of elected representatives of the people of Australia and if the [...]

Stephen Conroy is probably more out of touch with the internet then most of us imagine; “New” technologies? The first laptop was commercially released in 1975, wireless internet first debuted in 1985, 1983 saw the first mobile phone as we know them released, Myspace has been around since 2003 and the first website appeared after [...]

After citing Swedish law and publicly threatening Stephen Conroy with legal action if he tried to discover Wikileaks’ source for the ACMA blacklist leak yesterday, Wikileaks thrown down the gauntlet by releasing the March 18th, 2009 official ACMA blacklist.

Just days after I wrote “There are enough people opposed to mandatory filtering that a leak of the list can almost be guaranteed to happen here, if for nothing else then to humiliate the government in retaliation for censoring the internet“, Wikileaks has delivered the current ACMA non-mandatory blacklist up for public scrutiny. Note: The [...]

Forget internet filter trials or worrying about how much of your online freedom Conroy’s filter may or may not take away from you; the fact of the matter is Australian internet filtering is very much in the here and now. ACMA have made it perfectly clear that if you run a website with an .au [...]