ASIC Blocks Scam Website and Takes 1,200 Innocent Sites Down With It.
Last night news broke that Australia’s financial regulator, ASIC did in fact block the 1200 websites on 12th April, ASIC. According to Delimiter in a statement made last night by the office of Stephen Conroy: ASIC believed that the website in question was operating in breach of Australian law, specifically section 911a of the Corporations Act 2001 […]
EFA welcomes the government’s back down on mandatory internet filtering
Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA) welcomes today’s announcement by Communications Minister Stephen Conroy that the government has finally abandoned its plans to introduce mandatory internet filtering. EFA, through its Open Internet campaign, was one of the many civil society groups that campaigned hard against this policy over a number of years. The internet is built […]
Conroy not fooling anyone on an open internet
The internet freedom business is doing a roaring trade these days. Things started picking up early last year with Hillary Clinton’s landmark speech, “Remarks on internet Freedom,” which equated an open internet with human rights and condemned state-sponsored censorship of the net. Then came the revelations by Wikileaks, starting with the “Collateral Murder” video and […]
Ausvotes 2010: Party Policy Guide is now available
The Ausvotes 2010: Party Policy Guide is now available for download. The guide is available here.
Dr Tucci is Bewildered
It’s an old chestnut, being bewildered at the “opposition to the governments plan to protect kids”, and this time it was put forward by Dr Joe Tucci from The Australian Childhood Foundation . When supporters of government proposals to censor the Internet run this line, they tacitly imply that those who disagree with them are […]
