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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