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  Internet censorship in Australia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Internet censorship in Australia is largely the province of the Federal Government and its laws on internet censorship are, theoretically, amongst the most restrictive in the Western world.
According to Electronic Frontiers Australia in at least one documented case, the hosting was merely shifted to a server in the United States, and the DNS records updated so that consumers may never have noticed the change.
Opponents of this petition claim that given the outcomes of Internet censorship it is possible that further restrictions on Internet usage will not have outcome desired by this conservative organisation, but will, rather, further restrict freedom of other usages of the Internet.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Internet_censorship_in_Australia   (625 words)

  
 Randyte Zone - Censorship
Censorship related articles in 2000 included a discussion on internet gambling, as well as a piece on the first six months of Internet censorship in Australia.
In September 1999 I made a submission to the Internet Industry Association in relation to the internet censorship (what they call "content regulation") modules of their code of conduct.
In February 1999 I presented a paper on internet censorship at the 'Advanced Liberty and Society' seminar conducted by the Centre for Independent Studies.
www2.hunterlink.net.au /~ddhrg/censorship.html   (733 words)

  
 Internet Censorship Laws in Australia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Subsequently Internet censorship legislation was passed by the SA Parliament on 24 October 2002 and came into effect on 1 December 2002.
The SA Internet censorship legislation is based on the 1999 draft model legislation, but is not identical, nor is it identical to the NSW Act that was also based on the draft model.
The WA Censorship Act came into effect on 1 November 1996, and covers both offline material and Internet content, flying in the face of the Commonwealth Government's then attempts to confine any new Internet legislation to the Commonwealth sphere.
www.efa.org.au /Campaigns/stop.html   (5372 words)

  
 wintersun.org - End censorship in Australia
Freedom of expression in Australia is under threat from increasingly intrusive censorship.
Australia is particularly vulnerable amongst Western liberal democracies because it has no constitutional or legislative protections for freedom of expression.
Censorship and Classification in Australia, a briefing paper from the Australian Parliamentary Library.
wintersun.org /censorship   (706 words)

  
 Hoodwinking the Public: Australia's Internet Censorship Regime   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
There is no evidence or indication in Government reports to support the Minister's claim on 21 August 2002 that the Internet has been made safer as a result of the Government's Internet censorship regime.
Although government reports claim prohibited Australian content has been taken-down from the Internet, the government's desire to amend Freedom of Information law, to place a thicker veil of secrecy over operation of the regime than already exists, demonstrates the government is well aware that "taken-down" content remains publicly accessible on the Internet.
Protection of children on the Internet is a serious community problem, requiring adequate police resources and a commitment to community education, including practical Internet lessons for children and for adults unfamiliar with computer and Internet technology.
www.efa.org.au /Publish/bsa_analysis2002.html   (5463 words)

  
 More on Censorship
Censorship is the use of state or group power to control freedom of expression.
Censorship is commonly used by social groups, organized religions, corporations and governments.
Censorship is regarded as a typical feature of dictatorships and other [[, and instead tout the importance of freedom of speech.
www.eduhistory.com /censorship.htm   (577 words)

  
 Censorship Portal @ Forbade.net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Sanitization (removal) and whitewashing are almost interchangeable terms that refer to a particular form of censorship via omission, which seeks to "clean up" the portrayal of particular issues and/or facts that are already known, but that may be in conflict with the point of view of the censor.
However, censorship is often alleged when an essentially private entity, such as a corporation, regulates access to information in a communication forum that serves a significant share of the public.
Censorship in the world - Chronicle of the societal control of behavior considered in violation of traditional and conventional morality.
www.forbade.net   (1983 words)

  
 Internet Censorship and Civil Liberties (Australia)
I attended a Watch on Censorship forum "Meet the Censor", with special guest is Des Clark, the new Director of the OFLC.
Censorship in Australia is discussed in the newsgroup
source for information on Internet censorship in Australia is Irene Graham's Liberty or Tyranny site; her The State of Censorship covers Australian censorship more generally.
danny.oz.au /freedom   (238 words)

  
 Australia and the Internet
The DCITA report, Australia's e-commerce report card (1999) gives the policy framework for e-commerce and describes those areas in which the Commonwealth is partnering industry and other governments to increase the use of e-commerce by Australian business.
Statistics on Internet commerce in Australia are available from the NOIE web site, in particular their Current State of Play page (a quarterly summary of statistical and other data) and their report, stats.
The Internet Society of Australia is the Australian chapter of the Internet Society (ISOC).
www.aph.gov.au /library/intguide/SP/Australiainternet.htm   (2207 words)

  
 Censorship in Australia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Australia is a federal nation, and responsibility for censorship rests neither wholly with the states, nor wholly with the federal government.
Australia’s laws on Internet censorship are, theoretically, amongst the most restrictive in the Western world.
Internet Censorship in Australia by Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA), a group that opposes government attempts to censor the Internet.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Censorship_in_Australia   (4220 words)

  
 Silenced: Censorship and Control of the Internet
The Internet has evolved to become an increasingly important platform not just for economic development, but also as a support for advocates who wish to express their opinion freely and to work toward the development of democracy.
Control and censorship has a substantial effect on the Internet because it undermines confidence and trust in the medium and inhibits crucial flows of data.
This study has found that censorship of the Internet is commonplace in most regions of the world.
www.privacyinternational.org /survey/censorship   (669 words)

  
 Freedom: Net Censorship: more government control and freedom abridgement
Australia is virtually certain to adopt an Internet censorship law that breaks with the western tradition of free speech.
Australia is moving toward adopting Internet censorship laws that are inconceivable in the United States and bring the land downunder's status as a free nation into question.
Australia's plans to impose the most authoritarian online censorship regime in the developed world are under fire from Internet companies.
www.bmstahoe.com /Libertarian/netcensor.html   (1596 words)

  
 Jerry Everard's Personal Site: Internet censorship - Australia
Australia doesn't have anything like that, other than a harking back to some second-hand legislation written in the 1680s under William and Mary, that we borrowed from the UK.
As recently as 5 May 2000 the Electronic Frontiers Australia was saying that the Australian internet censorship regime is one of the most draconian Net censorship proposals the world has ever seen.
I suppose this statement could be accurate if you were to list the censorship regimes of about 45 of the world's countries, in which case Australia might scrape in.
www.lostbiro.com /papers/net_censorship_aust.html   (3896 words)

  
 anvilfire NEWS Vol. 16 Eternal Flame Edition, p.3 Internet Censorship
AUSTRALIA has now passed another law allowing government agents to access and change data on individual computers as necessary.
Likewise those being censored in Australia are leading the fight for all Australians and maybe the rest of the free world.
The following links, while defending the right of free speech and against censorship on the Internet, use examples or contain links to the type of adult content sites that are the target of censorship.
www.anvilfire.com /news1/news1603.htm   (631 words)

  
 AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT FAILS IN ATTEMPT TO CENSOR INTERNET
In September 1997 Australia's most frequently banned investigative author, Raymond Hoser was advised that the Kennett State Government was again attempting to have his 60 odd internet websites wiped from the internet.
Hoser notes that (illegal) internet censorship in Australia is now perhaps the worst in the western world.
If you disagree with his improper and illegal tactics of censorship on the internet as well as his actively aiding and abetting corruption in Australia, then e-mail your protest to him at victorp@vicnet.net.au (click here to e-mail him now).
www.smuggled.com /censor1.htm   (984 words)

  
 libertus.net: about censorship and free speech
Includes information about the censorship and classification laws, the censors, banned and challenged information, articles and research studies about censorship and media effects, etc. More...
Includes information about the Australian internet censorship legislation introduced in 2000 and the prior and ongoing debate surrounding it.
PICS ("Platform for Internet Content Selection"), like the now dead Communications Decency Act that kindled it, threatens to torch a large segment of the Net community - reasons for the view that PICS is the devil, rather than our saviour.
libertus.net   (148 words)

  
 censorship - the new australian pledge of allegience
Angela --- >Help fight censorship Sign the Senate Petition: >http://www.efa.org.au/Campaigns/alert99.html http://rene.efa.org.au/liberty/debate1a.html#DCITA99 On April 21st 1999 the Australian government tabled sweeping Internet censorship legislation.
This legislation threatens the freedom of Australian Internet users and the future of our economy - but will not achieve its claimed goal of protecting children.
--- Fighting Internet Censorship in Australia http://www.anatomy.usyd.edu.au/danny/freedom/ --- On this site you will find a wide range of information concerning attempts around the world to censor what we can say and see on the Internet, with primary focus on the Australian situation.
mailman.lbo-talk.org /1999/1999-May/009881.html   (298 words)

  
 Censorship
Censorship exists to some extent in all modern countries, including the U.S.A., the U.K., Germany, France, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand.
An example of this is the censorship of the essay against genocide written by John Bart Gerald.
Very few 'pro internet' stories deal with the REAL benefits of the Internet — the breakup of the media monopoly, the 'everyone is a reader, everyone is a writer' concept, the building of communities of interest rather than coincidence.
www.serendipity.li /cda.html   (5073 words)

  
 One Year of Internet Censorship in Australia
Content hosted in Australia which is classified R and not subject to a restricted access system which complies with criteria determined by the Australian Broadcasting Authority (ABA).
Overall, the verdict was that filtering the Internet is a hit and miss affair, and that nothing substitutes parental supervision.
While the new censorship legislation has made no immediate difference to my access to Internet content (I happen to have no interest in the material considered to be prohibited content), I believe it is an inappropriate use of taxes.
www.melbpc.org.au /pcupdate/2102/2102article4.htm   (1205 words)

  
 AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT CENSORSHIP OF INTERNET
Perton simply phoned the internet provider and made threats to them, thereby intimidating them to wipe Hoser's sites and access, even though such an action was in violation of the commercial agreement between Hoser and the server.
We hope that it is made as widely known as possible that Victor Perton (a member of Parliament here in Australia) has been guilty of perhaps the first case of overt internet censorship and a contempt of the Supreme Court.
Whistleblowers Australia have previously stated that ICAC is nothing more than a shield behind which the corrupt can hide and continue their activities.
www.smuggled.com /vac.htm   (9709 words)

  
 Australia goes stark raving mad over Net censorship | The Register
The South Australia Parliament is pushing an Internet censorship bill that will make it an offence for anyone to post any information deemed offensive to children anywhere on the Internet.
The basic premise of the legislation appears to be that since kids are able to access Internet sites at any time, then everything on the Internet ought to be acceptable to children.
We searched the South Australia Parliament Web site but their search function is useless and the site is poorly updated.
www.theregister.co.uk /2001/03/02/australia_goes_stark_raving_mad   (571 words)

  
 First Principles - Robin Whittle
Telecommunications privacy and related issues: telemarketing, a Do-Not-Call registry for Australia, Internet censorship and a systematic review of which matters are most suitable for government regulation or self-regulation.
In late 2005, the Department released a discussion paper on how telemarketing in Australia might be regulated by a Do-Not-Call system to protect people at home and at work.
This submission proposes criteria for determining whether formal regulation is required - and if it is required, for determining whether it should be accomplished directly by government, by an industry developed self-regulatory approach, or by an industry based "forced-self-regulatory" approach developed to meet government priorities, on threat of legislative regulation.
www.firstpr.com.au /issues   (892 words)

  
 Freedom of Speech, Internet Censorship
The Australian Library and Information Association and Electronic Frontiers Australia Inc. jointly sponsored a forum on Internet censorship on 9 October 2000 in Melbourne: "Filtering the Internet: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly".
In her presentation, Ann Symons said that there is nothing good about filtering the Internet, except perhaps that it gives parents a choice to use filtering software.
The "ugly" side of Internet censorship is that filters are used in publicly funded institutions.
www.melbpc.org.au /pcupdate/2012/2012article3.htm   (1260 words)

  
 ICE: Internet Censorship Explorer » Australia: Censorship & Surveillance
As if censorship was not enough Australia has now passed a new surveillance law.
Groups such as Electronic Frontiers Australia have been monitoring the growing body of censorship laws in Australia.
Regardless of the initial reason for implementing Internet filtering, there is increasing pressure to expand its use once the filtering infrastructure is in place.
ice.citizenlab.org /?p=199   (504 words)

  
 Games Censorship Collection - Resources - Computer Games
Originally, it was allowed into Australia only with the game's internal censorship feature (that removed all the women) turned permanently on, but this ruling was later overturned and it was placed on sale unmodified (MA 15+ rating from the OFLC in both instances).
Although this much delayed title was mentioned numerous times as justification for the creation of games censorship schemes around the world, it was never put to the test in Australia as no one submitted it for classification and thus it was never sold here.
It places the player in the role of a protector of a group of young women dressed in sleepwear who are being threatened with having their blood drained from their necks by a strange race of vampires.
anthonylarme.tripod.com /gc/gcrgames.html   (2287 words)

  
 vigilant tv: South Australia approves internet censorship law
The South Australian state government has passed an internet censorship bill that prohibits the publication of material unsuitable for children, even if minors are prevented from accessing it.
Thus, even if content which could be rated R is put up on a password-protected region of a site, and the password is provided only to adults, one could still be prosecuted under criminal law.
A practically identical bill was introduced in South Australia in November 2000 but was not passed by either house of parliament in February 2002, just before the last elections were held in the state.
vigilant.tv /article/2399   (129 words)

  
 The Art of Shoplifting
As a result of blatant abuse of political power, the editors of a student newspaper called Rabelais were prosecuted for publishing this article.
It is republished here as an act of civil disobedience and an illustration of the appalling reach of Australia's censorship system.
Western Australia) and its publication would be an offence in others (e.g.
danny.oz.au /freedom/cases/Rabelais.html   (2952 words)

  
 Why the Net doesn't belong to America | Tech News on ZDNet
After all, the Internet was created in California on Oct. 20, 1969, and funded by the U.S. military's Advance Research Projects Agency (ARPA).
Likewise, when the United States decides on any given course of action involving the Internet, it cannot assume that's the final word (or even that there is such a thing as a final word anymore).
The Internet industry associations of Europe, the United States and Australia have forged official affiliations, and the first international gathering of Net industry groups is earmarked to take place in Australia this December.
news.zdnet.com /2100-9595_22-519430.html   (1046 words)

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