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[News] [SOT] Australia Becomes a Censor, Just Like China

  • Subject: [News] [SOT] Australia Becomes a Censor, Just Like China
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2008 04:23:35 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Conroy announces mandatory internet filters to protect children

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| "Labor makes no apologies to those that argue that any regulation of the 
| internet is like going down the Chinese road," he said. 
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/31/2129471.htm

Ignore the "child" sobbing. It's just an excuse to introduce censorship. The
Inquirer is now blocked in China. Welcome to the New World Order.

Also new:

Beijing court sides with Baidu in music piracy case

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| A Beijing appeals court has found top Chinese search engine Baidu.com not 
| guilty of property rights infringement for posting links to websites offering 
| illegal music downloads, state media said Monday.  
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http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5j0hDkgX23htra1BY_kh5O9iLDgPw


Related:

Australia to get net censorship

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| The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) will be able to 
| force content providers to take down offensive material and issue notices for 
| live content to be stopped and links to the content deleted.  
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http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22959799-5005961,00.html


Major Aussie ISP Telstra BigPond shafts open source OpenOffice

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| Australia’s largest Internet service provider Telstra BigPond has removed the 
| free open source office suite OpenOffice from its unmetered file download 
| area following the launch of its own, free, hosted, office application, 
| BigPond Office.   
| 
| [...]
| 
| Our reader was outraged by Telstra’s move, which he sees as an attack on the 
| open source software movement. 
| 
| “The principle of the matter upsets me,” he said. “The fact that BigPond has 
| removed previously allowed open source software is un-ethical. They are 
| discriminating against me, even though I pay the same as other customers.  
| They are attacking the Free Software movement.”   
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http://tech.blorge.com/Structure
%20/2007/12/18/major-aussie-isp-telstra-bigpond-shafts-open-source-openoffice/


Australia to extend web censorship

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| Privacy advocates take a dim view of this proposal, naturally. Roger Clarke, 
| chair of the Australian Privacy Foundation, said "This government's extremism 
| has reached new heights today." He asked "How can a politician claim the 
| right to hold office if they set out to undermine the critical democratic 
| right of freedom of speech, and blatantly decline to evaluate the impact of 
| measures put before the Parliament?"     
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/09/26/australia-extend-web-censorship


Suit against blogger weaves legal web in Paris, Texas

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| But there is little case law in Texas or nationally to give judges a standard 
| for when to expose anonymous postings on the Internet.   
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http://chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/5149745.html


Web 'censorship' bill brings police state one stop closer  

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| Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA) has slammed moves to give the Federal 
| Police powers to ban access to certain Internet content as "another step in 
| Australia's descent into a police state".  
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/14570/1055/


Howard row over Wikipedia edits

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| Staff in the Australian prime minister's department have been accused of 
| editing potentially damaging entries in online encyclopaedia Wikipedia. 
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/6961575.stm


AT&T admits it censored other bands

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| It looks like Pearl Jam isn't the only band that has had its politically 
| charged comments bleeped from concerts streamed from AT&T's Blue Room Web 
| site.  
| 
| [...]
| 
| AT&T quickly apologized for the incident and blamed the company that handles 
| the Webcasting for performances on Blue Room. 
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http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9759184-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20


AT&T slams Google over open-access wireless proposal

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| AT&T has asked Capitol Hill not to enable an open nationwide wireless 
| spectrum, claiming that Google's lobbying of such a network is a bid by the 
| search giant to obtain broadband airwaves at bargain-basement prices.  
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http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=B592E3C6-E5F3-4ECA-93C1-3A5A3392024A


Microsoft and MySpace join Govt's fight against online predators

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| Microsoft has joined the likes of MySpace and the child protection advocacy 
| group Bravehearts to help launch an extension of the Federal Government’s 
| NetAlert initiative, the Consultative Working Group.  
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http://www.securecomputing.net.au/news/61208,microsoft-and-myspace-join-govts-fight-against-online-predators.aspx


Australia's porn-blocking plan unveiled

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| While individual filters will be available beginning later this month, 
| ISP-level blocking may take some time to implement. The Australian 
| Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) is currently planning a trial of 
| ISP-level filtering in Tasmania that will inform the government's decision on 
| a national launch.    
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6202226.html


Yahoo!, Microsoft ink web pact with Chinese government

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| Microsoft and Yahoo! have signed a pact with the Chinese government 
| that "encourages" the big name web players to record the identities of 
| bloggers and censor content. So says Reporters Without Borders, an 
| organization that fights for journalistic rights across the globe.   
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/24/yahoo_and_microsoft_ink_chinese_blogging_pact/


Chinese Internet dissident committed to mental hospital

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| "It is not acceptable that Chinese authorities use such methods to silence 
| citizens who have merely peacefully voiced their opinions", expressed the 
| organisation in an announcement. Apparently authorities have not abandoned 
| the practice of punishing those who have exposed the abuse of power and 
| defied censorship by compulsorily committing them to mental institutions.    
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/94864/from/rss09

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