Sometimes it can be hard to keep up with everything that is going on. Here is a summary of the news items we shared this week on Twitter.
Please let me know if you find a summary list like this one handy, and if you would like me to do it every week.
Open Internet
The morality of #censorship http://bit.ly/dxcxRS
@JuliaGillard won’t budge on internet filter http://bit.ly/dpmoM2
Gillard: Filter is a “moral question”: http://bit.ly/cCp43x
The Filter’s Not Dead, It’s Sleeping Fitfully http://bit.ly/98ILo8
Austar tipped for #NBN deal http://bit.ly/cEVVNi
Aussies get daft on censorship again http://bit.ly/aVhnY3
Blacklist maintenance to cost $71billion by 2019.http://bit.ly/aAGjQ7
The truth about refused classification http://bit.ly/8ZpfwA
Online complaints up, take-downs low http://bit.ly/b1d717
#Wikileaks on Australian Government Blacklist? http://bit.ly/cPyfyB
How would the Internet Filter work, exactly? http://bit.ly/apBizG
NBN
@TurnbullMalcolm‘s #NBN confusion softens Libs’ case http://bit.ly/9a6X3r
@JuliaGillard : Cost of #NBN needs to be “reverse engineered” http://bit.ly/bIzPF2
Telstra’s warning over #NBN deal http://bit.ly/bdDdRf
@LiberalAus to use existing broadband infrastructure for its own version of#NBN http://bit.ly/cFxRIA
#NBN costs could balloon: reporthttp://bit.ly/aRpuGH
Optus targets #NBN wireless fans and fibre critics http://bit.ly/aZJWjP
Samuel’s #NBN cost-benefit noisehttp://bit.ly/cSZP9n
#NBN Co. to deliver business plan to Government by November http://bit.ly/ct2RdW
The #NBN debate: Pulling in different directions http://bit.ly/d5jIDH
Brisbane turns its back on #NBN, builds its own http://bit.ly/cHDR82
A video of i3 laying optic fibre in sewers http://youtu.be/d9qioflCPSc
Plan for high-speed broadband in Brisbane to beat #NBN by eight years http://bit.ly/9H20Ej
Connect to #NBN now or pay up to $300 for phone line http://bit.ly/977tel
#NBN Co set to use semi-idle satellites to deliver remote broadband (viawatoday.com.au) http://bit.ly/9CWswu
ACTA and COICA
How #ACTA Turns Private, Non-Commercial File Sharing Into ‘Commercial Scale’ Criminal Infringement http://bit.ly/bur1Fu
Attorney-General’s office considering#copyright law reviewhttp://bit.ly/9kUtxA
#ACTA Must be Rejected as a Wholehttp://is.gd/fY0XR
How #ACTA is being reported in the Public Service -> #Copyright agreement to right copy wrongshttp://bit.ly/93G7G3
On Internet Censorship:#ACTA and #COICA http://bit.ly/9XAY1a
BSA falsely claims #ACTA is a treaty that has already been signed by 37 countrieshttp://bit.ly/aBwC5w
#ACMA blocks more siteshttp://bit.ly/cQsbiJ
Analysis: Where to now for #ACTA? http://bit.ly/bUXdvV
Brazil Says #ACTA Is Illegitimatehttp://bit.ly/brg4mZ
Surveillance / Web Wiretapping
With proposed “blacklists,” US Senate has its “foot in the door” on http://bit.ly/axclUC
#Privacy revisions present risk for offshore clouds http://bit.ly/dlWwCm
Snuggly the Security Bear Speaks on Internet Wiretappinghttp://bit.ly/8YFhjS
US Police State of Wiretapping the Web: Who Do THEY Want to Watch?http://bit.ly/aDqleL
#ASIO gets new wiretap powers in caring-sharing plan http://bit.ly/cEKkOc
US Government uses social networking to infiltrate people’s lives http://bit.ly/9H4QME
US Feds snooping social media sites? http://bit.ly/9MGnhw
Encryption debate centers on #privacy http://bit.ly/dhvWEB
China
With Twitter blocked, Chinese micro-blogging thrives http://bit.ly/c5lz3F
Chinese reformers push on#censorship http://bit.ly/9LqVpD
Chinese former communist officials in reform call http://bit.ly/d9EASJ
Copyright
Irish ISP wins major legal victory against record labels http://bit.ly/bBwsKn
US Library of Congress:#Copyright is killing sound archivinghttps://eff.org/r.3tc
Other news
Online ad chief waters down plan to reveal and disarm #tracking http://bit.ly/8Xw8z0
#Righthaven files, settles more US#copyright lawsuits http://bit.ly/9bwx0z
Holding Nokia Responsible for Surveilling Dissidents in Iran (via @EFF) http://bit.ly/aW7zQi
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