Late last year the Federal Government announced that it intended to go ahead with one of the worst ideas I’ve heard in a long time. The Communications Minister Senator Stephen Conroy – presumably assuming Australia was distracted by Christmas and Copenhagen to notice – announced that an expensive, ineffective and intrusive filter will be installed [...]
Internet Censorship and The Arts
January 22nd, 2010 13 Comments
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How the Internet filtering trial works and fails (via my brother)
December 16th, 2009 5 Comments
I’ve been tyring to get my head around the results of the Federal Government’s internet filtering trial. Rather than undertake hours of laborious research off my own bat i decided to consult the resource that all people i know turn to when stuck with a technical question: my brother Stuart.
His assesment:
Here is a bit of [...]
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