ADVOCACY, POLICY & NEWS
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Pirate bay operators found guilty. Where to from here?
A few days ago, a Swedish court found the four figures behind thepiratebay.org guilty of criminal copyright infringement and sentenced them to pay approximately $5M AUD in damages and serve a one year prison sentence. The severity of the punishment is surprising, particularly as the operators of the Pirate Bay…
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Colin Jacobs reflects on SBS Insight
Colin Jacobs, Vice Chair of EFA, was a guest on SBS Insight on Tuesday night, discussing internet filtering with Senator Stephen Conroy, Mark Newton, Lyle Shelton and others. If you missed the show, you can stream it or view the transcript from the SBS website. Colin has an interesting wrap-up…
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Conroy faces the filtering music on Q&A
Australia’s frustration with the Government’s push for mandatory Internet filtering is coming to a head. Last night Communications Minister Stephen Conroy appeared on ABC’s Q&A and faced a mountain of questions from the Australian public on this scheme – far and away the most questions the ABC have received on…
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Answering a few questions about the leaked blacklist (updated)
Update 9.55pm: Wikileaks has published a more up-to-date copy of the ACMA blacklist, current as of the 18 March. This list includes abortiontv, wikileaks itself and Philip Nitschke’s Poison Pill Handbook as well as a similar smattering of legal material and innocent sites. The leaking of the ACMA blacklist as…
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Leaked Government blacklist confirms worst fears
Edit 19/3 4.00pm: The Minister has refuted the authenticity of the list in a media release. Indications are that the leaked list contains the ACMA list plus sites chosen by the filter vendor. In any case, comments about individual sites on the list should therefore be treated with caution. Electronic…
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Newmatilda.com – The Tangled Web filtering forum
Next week I will be speaking at a forum organised by New Matilda, “The Tangled Web: Beyond an Internet Filter”. The abstract reads: The Federal Government’s proposal to block internet sites with a mandatory filter has drawn overwhelming opposition from voices across politics and civil society. So what are the…