Senate answers shed some more light on filter
Senator Conroy’s office today provided answers to Questions on Notice asked by Greens Senator Scott Ludlam some months ago. Among the dozens of answers reiterating standard positions were some welcome details that have been frustratingly hard to come by before. You can download the entire exchange (see below), but here are a few pieces of […]
Libs take Government to task over U.S. filter opposition
EFA has received the text of a letter from Liberal Party Senator Sue Boyce to Communications Minister Stephen Conroy and Foreign Minister Stephen Smith demanding they come clean on the nature of representations made by the U.S. government regarding their internet censorship policy. Recent revelations that the U.S. Department of State had broached the subject […]
Google shine a light on government takedowns
For all his faults, Stalin was a pioneer in the field of image manipulation. Airbrushing liquidated foes from official photographs was the photoshopping of its day. And although Stalin (like modern dicatators) would have loathed the internet for its uncanny ability to let the truth slip out, he would have admired the way information can be […]
Online community needs a champion
EFA Vice-Chair Colin Jacobs says the online community needs a champion in this second of a series of blog posts on the importance of online civil liberties as part of EFA’s 2010 Fundraising Campaign … As a teenage exchange student, when I wanted to let my family know how the Germans were treating me, I usually wrote […]
EFA Media Release: EFA responds to Senator Conroy’s challenge and attack
Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA) has responded to the extraordinary challenge and attacks directed at it by the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy Senator Stephen Conroy in Question Time yesterday and today. In a response to a question asked by Senator Sue Boyce about Australia recently being added to a watch list of […]