Is the internet going down down under?
Is the internet going down down under?: “ It’s the end of the net as we know it The battle is now on for the soul of the Australian internet. The outcome could have enormous…
Content Regulation
Filtering out the fury: how government tried to gag web censor critics
Filtering out the fury: how government tried to gag web censor critics – BizTech Asher Moses, October 24, 2008 The Federal Government in Australia is attempting to silence critics of its controversial plan to censor…
EU – Commission welcomes European Parliament’s strong support for a new Safer Internet Programme
EU – Commission welcomes European Parliament’s strong support for a new Safer Internet Programme: “(RAPID) The European Parliament cast an overwhelmingly positive vote on the report drafted by MEP Roberta Angelilli which supports the launch…
BBC News: Web content ‘disturbing children’
Apparently “Children are just a few clicks away from innocently stumbling across upsetting or even dangerous pictures and films” and so why not regulate the Internet for all of us? I suspect we will see…
UK.gov says: Regulate the internet
UK.gov says: Regulate the internet: “ Eradicate smut and unemployment As unemployment looks set to soar in the months ahead, quangocrat and soon to be ex-head of Ofcom Lord David Currie appears to have discovered…
AU – No opt-out of filtered Internet
AU – No opt-out of filtered Internet: “(Computerworld) Australians will be unable to opt-out of the government’s pending Internet content filtering scheme, and will instead be placed on a watered-down blacklist. Under the government’s $125.8…
Council of Europe plans extension of broadcast rules to on-demand material
Council of Europe plans extension of broadcast rules to on-demand material: “The Council of Europe aims to increase the scope of a convention that affects the regulation of TV broadcasting to include video on-demand services…
Porn, abuse, depravity – and how they plan to stop it
Porn, abuse, depravity – and how they plan to stop it: “ Part one: Strangling content Policing the Internet Contrary to popular belief, the government and police forces have hitherto not exerted a great deal…
Eurasia Daily Monitor: Turkish authorities step up censorship of Internet web sites
Eurasia Daily Monitor: Turkish authorities step up censorship of Internet web sites By Gareth Jenkins, Friday, October 3, 2008 In the early hours of October 4, 2005, Turkey officially began accession negotiations with the EU….
Government to ban suicide-promoting websites
Government to ban suicide-promoting websites: “The Government will change the law to make it clear that promoting suicide on the internet is illegal. The Ministry of Justice said that it will rewrite the Suicide Act…