marcus westbury

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How the Internet filtering trial works and fails (via my brother)

December 16th, 2009 View 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 [...]

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The problem with censorship: it’s not working

November 9th, 2009 View Comments

How can we make reasonable judgments about what is acceptable when censorship laws can’t keep up? Australia’s censorship and classification regime has a major problem. It is breaking, if not broken. It is in need of a serious national debate and not the simplistic solutions or opportunistic point-scoring that tends to characterise debates around censorship. [...]

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