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 […]
Why Electronic Frontiers Australia needs your support
EFA Chair Nic Suzor explains EFA’s ongoing struggle to defend civil liberties online, in the first of a series of blog posts on the importance of online civil liberties as part of EFA’s 2010 Fundraising Campaign … I am very excited to announce the start of EFA’s fundraising campaign for 2010. We are asking for […]
Series of posts on the importance of online civil liberties
For the next two weeks Electronic Frontiers Australia is running a fundraising drive so that we can continue to expand and campaign for your online civil liberties. Although EFA has been leading the Open Internet campaign against the Government’s proposal to censor the Internet, that is just one aspect of our activities and interests. In addition to Internet […]
EFA’s 2010 Fundraising Campaign
Over the past few months, EFA has been working hard campaigning for an Open Internet against Government censorship of the Internet. While we are proud of what we have achieved in that campaign, the Government’s decision to delay the introduction of the legislation means that it will be prolonged and ongoing campaign. Moreover, that is only one […]
Government: Don't feed the trolls
There are jerks on the internet. Given how many jerks there are off the internet, this shouldn’t surprise anyone. (I’m willing to bet that the first cave painting was barely dry before a jerk came along and drew an oversized penis on one of the animals.) Nevertheless, the offensive defacement last week of two Facebook […]