Comments on: Is big business behind Conroy’s filter? http://ozsoapbox.com/rest-of-australia/censorship/is-big-business-behind-conroys-filter/ because criticism isn't an armchair sport Tue, 22 May 2012 10:36:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Broadband and Communications vs. the Digital Economy « Random Pariah http://ozsoapbox.com/rest-of-australia/censorship/is-big-business-behind-conroys-filter/#comment-12654 Broadband and Communications vs. the Digital Economy « Random Pariah Thu, 25 Feb 2010 04:53:38 +0000 http://ozsoapbox.com/?p=962#comment-12654 [...] mandatory ISP-level internet filtering to Australia’s online market. Others have cogently argued the many negative outcomes of this piece of legislation and I won’t revisit those here. What I have [...] [...] mandatory ISP-level internet filtering to Australia’s online market. Others have cogently argued the many negative outcomes of this piece of legislation and I won’t revisit those here. What I have [...]

]]> By: -Roly http://ozsoapbox.com/rest-of-australia/censorship/is-big-business-behind-conroys-filter/#comment-5211 -Roly Fri, 03 Apr 2009 02:37:31 +0000 http://ozsoapbox.com/?p=962#comment-5211 No, you're not crazy. The anti-Scientology site was apparently blacklist over a Scientology claim of copyright on documents exposed on the site. These guys are experts at suppressing critical commentry. The current secret complaints-based system has already been grossly abused by a net-paranoid ratbag minority. I've also just picked up on the boggling attempt to censor Gen:9 at truechristian. Are all the on-line Bibles going to be blacklisted too? How many links away must a site be to avoid contamination by "linking to objectionable material"? A graffiti vid has been blacklisted, so are photographs of graffiti "objectionable"? When you end up with such a tangled mess the universe is telling you to back off and re-think. How many IT experts does it take to make a Senator finially see the light? No, you’re not crazy. The anti-Scientology site was apparently blacklist over a Scientology claim of copyright on documents exposed on the site. These guys are experts at suppressing critical commentry.

The current secret complaints-based system has already been grossly abused by a net-paranoid ratbag minority.

I’ve also just picked up on the boggling attempt to censor Gen:9 at truechristian. Are all the on-line Bibles going to be blacklisted too?

How many links away must a site be to avoid contamination by “linking to objectionable material”? A graffiti vid has been blacklisted, so are photographs of graffiti “objectionable”?

When you end up with such a tangled mess the universe is telling you to back off and re-think.

How many IT experts does it take to make a Senator finially see the light?

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