Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Conroy admits that it wont block child porn
Conroy admits that his filter wont stop child porn... well what will it do? WTF!?
Conroy is making this s&)# up as he goes along.
Conroy is making this s&)# up as he goes along.
Monday, March 30, 2009
ACMA Hacked
A screen shot of the ACMA hack.
They'd better get their security up to speed. I suspect there may be a lot of this mischief in the future. Wouldn't it be fun to be able to do stuff like this. :)
They'd better get their security up to speed. I suspect there may be a lot of this mischief in the future. Wouldn't it be fun to be able to do stuff like this. :)
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Friday, March 27, 2009
Conroy on Q and A
Conroy appeared on Q and A to discuss his filter. Asher Moses gives us a rundown for the SMH.
SMH Article
The article sites a caching error for the inclusion of Henson's photos. If the ACMA is not computer savvy enough to manage the list what makes them imagine that the will be able to do it better with the power to ban anything.
Conroy has missed the point. We don't give him permission to do this. He acts as an elected official. People do not want this. Australians do not want this. They are saying stop wasting time and money on a thing we don't want. Listen, fv(# ya!
He goes on to blame the Russians for spamming a page on the dentist's site. Will the government compensate businesses that it sends broke by mistakenly secretly banning their sites? Blamming the Russians?? Are you aware that the cold war is over?
SMH Article
The article sites a caching error for the inclusion of Henson's photos. If the ACMA is not computer savvy enough to manage the list what makes them imagine that the will be able to do it better with the power to ban anything.
Conroy has missed the point. We don't give him permission to do this. He acts as an elected official. People do not want this. Australians do not want this. They are saying stop wasting time and money on a thing we don't want. Listen, fv(# ya!
He goes on to blame the Russians for spamming a page on the dentist's site. Will the government compensate businesses that it sends broke by mistakenly secretly banning their sites? Blamming the Russians?? Are you aware that the cold war is over?
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
All power is open to abuse.
A police liaison officer has been charged with indecent assault while on duty at a school. It doesn't matter who you give power to it is still likely to get abused. The millions upon millions of dollars being burnt up by the Conroy filter could have allowed police liaison officers to work strictly in pairs avoiding this alleged incident.
Millions upon millions of dollars! Think of the opportunity cost. What else could this have achieved?
SMH article:
Millions upon millions of dollars! Think of the opportunity cost. What else could this have achieved?
SMH article:
Legal content blocked.
The blacklist has a Bill Henson fan-site on it. There were 5 images of young boys, one of which was naked. These images are legal to see out here in the real world, however, once they are online the ACMA takes a dislike to them.
This whole black list is a blight on this country, a cancer of stupidity.
This whole black list is a blight on this country, a cancer of stupidity.
Not all but at least some women just want to be involved in the adult industry.
These women want to work in the porn/erotic dancer industry to get ahead. Who is to say that their plan is wrong? They aren't hurting my by doing it. It has no effect on me. It doesn't mean that they should be shunned by society. I'm not interested in watching them do it.
Conroy, being a conservative, anti porn sort of guy would probably be against their right to choose for themselves and an audiences right to decide to be entertained by their show.
Censorship is all about protecting the weak. On this round it is the children who are being held up as the innocent victims of porn. Firstly, I want to see the empirical data of who is getting harmed and how.
In the 1800s the intelligencia felt that they could deal with adult entertainment but that their wives and the working class had to be protected. Little consideration was given to limiting information available to children. Prior to the sexual revolution in the 1960s women had to be protected from information. This is the burkah that women still wear under Islam. This patronising attitude that they need to be protected from something that their husbands access freely is really just a way of keeping them ignorant and, thus, easier to control.
So we move to Conroy's great wall. Under the guise of child protection the elderly wont be able to access euthenasia information. WTF?! It sounds like the church (not happy with the impending doom of irrelivence) trying to re-assert it's control over who gets to shag who and the proper place for women in society.
Conroy, being a conservative, anti porn sort of guy would probably be against their right to choose for themselves and an audiences right to decide to be entertained by their show.
Censorship is all about protecting the weak. On this round it is the children who are being held up as the innocent victims of porn. Firstly, I want to see the empirical data of who is getting harmed and how.
In the 1800s the intelligencia felt that they could deal with adult entertainment but that their wives and the working class had to be protected. Little consideration was given to limiting information available to children. Prior to the sexual revolution in the 1960s women had to be protected from information. This is the burkah that women still wear under Islam. This patronising attitude that they need to be protected from something that their husbands access freely is really just a way of keeping them ignorant and, thus, easier to control.
So we move to Conroy's great wall. Under the guise of child protection the elderly wont be able to access euthenasia information. WTF?! It sounds like the church (not happy with the impending doom of irrelivence) trying to re-assert it's control over who gets to shag who and the proper place for women in society.
Don't criticise the government or you'll get the sack.
Don't criticise the government or you'll get the sack.
The author of the Fake Stephen Conroy blog and Twitter Leslie Nassar's employer haven't sacked him, however: "We have started a disciplinary process against him."
This sounds like the lead up to being sacked. If he farts off key in the future he will get the sack. I can't imagine that he will be considered for promotion.
It would be hard to argue that Mr Nassar's actions were the wisest move but did it actually affect his job? How did it stop him from doing his job?
Blogs and Twitters are a conversation, not a publication. I don't look for facts on blogs or Twitters. Only an idiot would see a blog or Twitter as anything more than a personal opinion. Sure thousands of people might read it but blogs becoming popular or even having visitors is very much the exception to the rule. Bitching about the government, Telstra and the boss is part of the cherished Australian psyche. It's the modern world way of stuffing jolly jumbucks into tucker bags. Who are Telstra to punish people for that.
SMH article:
The author of the Fake Stephen Conroy blog and Twitter Leslie Nassar's employer haven't sacked him, however: "We have started a disciplinary process against him."
This sounds like the lead up to being sacked. If he farts off key in the future he will get the sack. I can't imagine that he will be considered for promotion.
It would be hard to argue that Mr Nassar's actions were the wisest move but did it actually affect his job? How did it stop him from doing his job?
Blogs and Twitters are a conversation, not a publication. I don't look for facts on blogs or Twitters. Only an idiot would see a blog or Twitter as anything more than a personal opinion. Sure thousands of people might read it but blogs becoming popular or even having visitors is very much the exception to the rule. Bitching about the government, Telstra and the boss is part of the cherished Australian psyche. It's the modern world way of stuffing jolly jumbucks into tucker bags. Who are Telstra to punish people for that.
SMH article:
China blocks Youtube.
China has blocked access to youtube.
This is the kind of control that Conroy wants over Australian ISPs. Tell me how they are going to avoid abusing this power. Governments are not known for not using power we give them.
This is the kind of control that Conroy wants over Australian ISPs. Tell me how they are going to avoid abusing this power. Governments are not known for not using power we give them.
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Articles:
ABC Unleashed:
Wikileaks Home Page:
Can't work out whether a site is inaccessable by you or just down? Down For Everyone Or Just Me is the site to test with.
Guardian UK article: Maybe the Queen can save us.
Whirlpool coverage and comments:
Wikileaks Home Page:
Can't work out whether a site is inaccessable by you or just down? Down For Everyone Or Just Me is the site to test with.
Guardian UK article: Maybe the Queen can save us.
Whirlpool coverage and comments:
SMH Article
Asher has been busy again. In this SMH article: iiNet drops out of the trial and a grandmother is cross about threats to blacklist eutheasia information.
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Saturday, March 21, 2009
The full extent to the current federal governments plan to control and monitor the internet is starting to come to light. The whirlpool forum is being monitored by government officials now.
This comes hot on the hypocritical heals of him commending Singapore for stopping this same behaviour.
SMH article:
This comes hot on the hypocritical heals of him commending Singapore for stopping this same behaviour.
SMH article:
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Dentist vs Conroy
The dentist named on the banned list is cross. The article goes on to quote Conroy denying that this is the list.
The Brisbane Times article quotes Conroy threatening to put the Australian Federal Police onto anyone distributing the list. So, a list that we aren't allowed to see... which we don't have a real copy of... is gonna get us reported to the Federal Police... who are gonna charge us with... what... having a fake list? WTF?!
I think it's time to roll out the Chewbacca defence: That does not make sense!
The Brisbane Times article quotes Conroy threatening to put the Australian Federal Police onto anyone distributing the list. So, a list that we aren't allowed to see... which we don't have a real copy of... is gonna get us reported to the Federal Police... who are gonna charge us with... what... having a fake list? WTF?!
I think it's time to roll out the Chewbacca defence: That does not make sense!
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
The blacklist grows.
The blacklist is growing. Part of the blacklist is the blacklist itself. Talking about the blacklist on a forum will have the forum blacklisted. Linking to sites that disclose blacklists will result in $11,000 per day fines.
This is exactly the kind of shit that we are fighting against. The internet has shown us a new world, one where we can talk to each other freely and go where we want. I don't think people want to give that world up.
SMH article:
This is exactly the kind of shit that we are fighting against. The internet has shown us a new world, one where we can talk to each other freely and go where we want. I don't think people want to give that world up.
SMH article:
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Analysis of who needs filters.
Adam Thierer has researched who needs net filters.
The pff.org page.
The .pdf of the images used in the video.
The pff.org page.
The .pdf of the images used in the video.
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