Showing posts with label internet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label internet. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Early news report into the phenomenon of "internet"

A classic early '90s news report into the "revolution" of "internet".

"… there's not a lot of cursing or swearing, there's not a lot of personal cuts, there's not a lot of the put-downs that one would expect to find. There's not screenfulls full of 'Go to hell'…"


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Great video about this new thing called the internet.

At the end of the report they say that the government is looking at how best to regulate it.

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

ISPs will pay = ISPs will charge

ISPs will be required to pay for the installation and maintenance of filter hardware for a mandatory filter service, with the threat of $27,500 fines per day for non-compliance. The federal government plans to introduce legislative amendments to the Broadcasting Services Act requiring mandatory filtering in 2010, and "ISPs will be required to begin filtering within 12 months of the passage of the legislation," according to the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy.


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