"…technology alone will never provide enough protection," a children’s website moderator says. "Kids will find a way to communicate," she says, "and you can’t block every word in the dictionary." Read more about kids’ beha…
Communications Minister Stephen Conroy is back-pedaling, fast. On the SBS TV program, Insight, he indicated internet filtering in Australia would block information already banned by the censor only, with parents responsible for controlling their children…
Mandatory internet filtering laws are mushrooming around the world…targeting a range of perceived ills, from pornography in Australia to celebrity stalking in Argentina and dissidents in India. South Korea allegedly blocks 120,000 web sites, mostly con…
Australia has joined South Korea in being placed under surveillance – for imposing anti- democratic internet restrictions – in a Reporters without Borders international audit of online democracy released in March. Read report »…
Communications Minister Stephen Conroy continues to crash through with plans to introduce mandatory internet filtering for all Australians, including adults, to solve a perceived problem with children’s net access. Even as the largest ISP in his ‘trial’…
Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has ‘condemned’ the leaking and publishing of prohibited internet addresses on the web. Here’s what Minister for Control Conroy had to say in his media release. Internet list publication grossly irresponsible…
The supposedly top secret list of banned internet web sites involved in the Australian Government’s mandatory internet filtering trial has been leaked…on the internet. The secret list contains 2395 web pages declared ‘illegal’ by the Australian Communi…
Communications Minister Stephen Conroy appealed for people to have faith in politicians, in a bid to secure support for his mandatory internet filtering proposals. He accused opponents of producing ‘conspiracy theories’. Even the Minister’s rhetoric is s…
A new research report by an agency belonging to Communications Minister Stephen Conroy shows clearly that parents keep a close eye on their chilren’s use of the internet, and that they trust their kids to be responsible online. Minister Conroy appears…
A new US site tells Americans about government surveillance, and the steps to defend against it. And a UK organisation (Open Rights Group) is developing an equivalent, covering Data on the Wire, Data on your Computer, Data stored by Third Parties, and Fo…