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A recipe for tagliatelle with sardines and prosciutto has proved a little too spicy for Penguin Australia, after a misprint suggesting that the dish required "salt and freshly ground black people" has left the publisher reaching for the pulping machine, rather than the pepper grinder.
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Electronic Frontiers Australia today revealed what it said was evidence that Stephen Conroy’s department was hosting a protected online forum to discuss controversial issues about the Government’s internet filter initiative, including the lack of a complete draft of the planned legislation as of several weeks ago and the possibility of making it an offence to promote methods of circumventing the filter.
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Prime Minister Kevin Rudd today said he had "no advice" to suggest that the Federal Government's plans to implement a mandatory internet filter would be delayed until after the federal election, despite a report saying it would.
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A music-industry speaker at an American Chamber of Commerce event in Stockholm waxed enthusiastic about child porn, because it serves as the perfect excuse for network censorship, and once you've got a child-porn filter, you can censor anything
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The DBCDE is hosting a secret forum to get community feedback about he proposed filters.
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Greens Senator Scott Ludlam has described a protected online forum used by the federal broadband department to discuss the internet filter project with industry as typical of Communications Minister Stephen Conroy’s approach and again called for the whole project to be scrapped.
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The office of Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has acknowledged the existence of a protected online forum used to discuss controversial issues about the internet filter, but has appeared to reject forum suggestions from departmental officials that the Government could make it an offence to promote methods of circumventing the filter.
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The Internet filter legislation may be delayed, but it is not dead. And you can see other reasons for the policy to be implemented.
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Reporting on the Australian IT report that the Mandatory Internet Filter is likely to be delayed until after the election. (Of course, Conrody has since denied this)
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Government is considering another round of public consultation on its controversial internet filter plans, this time to fine tune the transparency and accountability measures attached the complaints-based blacklist scheme.
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LAWS giving police and foreign agencies access to real-time network traffic andeew powers to collect evidence held on computer systems will be needed before Australia signs up for the global cybercrime treaty.
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Make no mistake, the Government will implement an ineffective filter, if it is given a chance. However, an ineffective filter will never survive long term. Once the Government has established the right to filter, this or future governments will inevitably use the very ineffectiveness of the filter to argue that a more obtrusive filtering regime is required in order to address the deficiency. Any suggestion that the Government will suddenly be overcome by free-speech zeal and rollback an ineffective filter is pure fantasy – Governments rarely, if ever relinquish a power once granted.
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A section-by-section analysis of the April Draft of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement from an Australian perspective, pointing out how Australian law may have to change under an ACTA, and how ACTA creates obligations and procedures more onerous for Australians than for people in other countries.
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iiNet won the court case, but AFACT is still trying to bury them by claiming that they should receive legal costs.
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$24M buys the Government an Internet filter which they can install, but cannot stop people bypassing. Senator Conroy says so.
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The Federal Government's $23.8m ISP-level internet filtering initiative will not block encrypted content or web applications and can be circumvented legally, Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has admitted
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The mandatory internet filter policy is flawed, both on technical and philosophical grounds.Bu thtta doesn't matter, because the policy just exists to get the votes of Howard's battlers in the suburbs.
