On July 9th. Communications Minister Senator Stephen Conroy announced that the Government’s proposed mandatory ISP filtering scheme would be put on hold until a review of the ratings sytem. This video from ABC Lateline is reproduced in the interest of debate and discussion and as a matter of record. Video Source www.abc.net.au
Posts Tagged ‘Censorship’
Internet filter postponed pending review
Friday, July 9th, 2010Guileful Attack on Free Speech – Internet Censorship Australia (Clean Feed)
Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010A video about the proposed Clean Feed internet content filter system in Australia. Brief outline of what the filter is, how it actually works, as well as footage from protests around Australia. Stop the censorship plan sign the petition today @ www.efa.org.au Senator Conroy is also under pressure after his mate, former Queensland Labor MP Mike Kaiser, was appointed to a 0000-a-year job with NBN Co, the company responsible for rolling out the government’s billion national broadband network. The position was never advertised and no other candidate was interviewed. All footage used in my videos complies with the Australian Copyright Laws under Fair Use/Fair Dealing. I use the footage under “criticism or review – sections 41 and 103A” and/or “reporting of news – sections 42 and 103B” of the Commonwealth Consolidated Act ‘COPYRIGHT ACT 1968′.
Internet Mayday, WHO Payday, Guardian Heyday – Sunday Update
Monday, February 8th, 2010The Sunday Update is a weekly news update provided as a public service of The Corbett Report. Download Episode 116 of the podcast here: www.corbettreport.com The Rising Tide of Internet Censorship ur1.ca Robert David Steele on Google and the CIA: ur1.ca Dr. Wolfgang Wodarg on Alex Jones Tv ur1.ca Margaret Chan laments loss of obedience to WHO: ur1.ca Guardian finally realizes climategate emails were leaked, not hacked: ur1.ca Guardian finally realizes climategate criminals broke the law by turning down legitimate foi requests: ur1.ca Guardian finally realizes climategate criminals have tarnished the name of science and perverted the peer review process: ur1.ca Guardian finally realizes Phil Jones knowingly hid data about Chinese weather stations that undermined his own paper: ur1.ca Doug Keenan beats the Guardian to their “exclusive” by three years: ur1.ca
Technology with Peter Marks – internet censorship and 2009 in review
Wednesday, December 16th, 2009www.abc.net.au Broadband minister Stephen Conroy yesterday announced the government will press ahead with plans to censor the internet. Legislation will be amended next year to require all internet service providers (ISPs) to block overseas websites that have been ‘refused classification.’ In addition, ISPs will be encouraged to provide a second optional filter, giving users the choice of blocking a much broader range of websites. Our technology editor Peter Marks discusses the announcement …
Jay Rockefeller “Internet should have never been invented”
Saturday, September 19th, 2009Rockefeller: Internet is “Number One National Hazard” According to the great-grandson John D. Rockefeller, nephew of banker David Rockefeller, and former Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller the internet represents a serious threat to national security. Rockefeller is not alone in this assessment. His belief that the internet is the “number one national hazard” to national security is shared by the former Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell and Obama’s current …
2012 is when the Internet will end – Part 1
Thursday, August 20th, 2009In 2012, the internet as we know it today will be completely different. Big players in the ISP industry have supposedly signed contracts to implement ‘internet 2′ in 2012 – meaning free wireless internet broadband access for all, but only access to a few thousand sites (some of which you must pay for before gaining access to). This inevitably means a reduction in our freedom of expression, since the internet was originally designed to be a ‘free space’. What has to be done is wide-spread …