Thai net filter

Wanna see what Australia's net filter will look like in a few years. Thailand is a few steps further along this path than us.

There is all the emotive talk of child protection and terrorism.

Wikileaks:

It probably started with a public morality issue...

It probably started with a public morality issue but Iran's internet is now going to be used to stop any nasty little outbreaks of democracy such as the one we saw lately.

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Iran has passed a new internet law that experts fear will make information on internet users more readily available to the authorities.

It wasn't gamers, it was a devout christian

Conroy wants to block gamers from accessing games rated above M 15+ because there might be violence. Perhaps he should be looking at what the fundamentalists are telling people about possession by demons to stop violence.

All the moderate christians out there who say that this isn't your christianity doing this should look closely at what you did to stop this sort of nonsense from gaining traction in the world. It has traction right now. What are you doing to stop this rubbish because I don't want the demons shot out of me.

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We don't need a filter, we need a reality check.

Looking for the corrupting influences on children? Look no further than the High School Mathematic teaching Christian Album releasing minivan owning mother's of three.

Qantas wont have it

Qantas have refused the ad, despite giving a quote to show it. But censorship ads censored by big business are better than ads shown.

Conroy responds to GetUp ad

Conroy has denied the accusation that his net filter will stuff the internet.

Conroy's fame has spread to the UK.

Stephen Conroy's mandatory internet filtering plans have earned him the title of Internet Villain of the Year

The UK Internet Industry Awards

Conroy's fame has spread to the UK.

Mansfield man, 75, sued for sex abuse

David Harvey of 2061 Ranchwood Drive is named in the suit, along with the Rev. Sonny Thayer, 2878 Millsboro Road; Dianna Kochheiser, 1109 W. Hanley Road; and Russ Harvey of Galion. Grace Brethren Church, 531 Marion Ave., also is named.

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Once again, religion shows that it is incapable of forming a good society that protects children.

While governments and churches are busy deriding the internet as a terribly dangerous place for children the pedophiles are grooming the church kids. Kids who are taught that people in their church are inherently trustworthy simply because they are members of their church are left very open to abuse.

Children need to learn early that their bodies belong to them. Children have to know that they get to decide who touches them and they are allowed to say no to wrong or uncomfortable things regardless of who is doing it. That's what I taught young people in karate lessons. It doesn't take much to push an adult away. Pedophiles need quiet compliant children. They will run a mile if a child shows that he or she will fight, kick, bite and scream (yes, I gave bitting lessons). It takes 5 minutes to teach the average child to drop down in their stance (or sit down) and twist out of a wrist hold (being dragged by the hand). If they could break the hold, attack the groin. If you get away, run as fast as you can. I never got complaints from parents that the lessons caused negative behaviour.

This old guy in the church was probably trusted by all of the parents and he used this trust to get access to the children. This shows again that the church model of community is inherently flawed.

But, that aside, adults that were abused as children probably tithe more than non-abused so it's good for business. To be so damaged and confused would probably make them cling to the church.

Australian Institute of Criminology's report.

Online child grooming: a literature review on the misuse of social networking sites for grooming children for sexual offences.

ICANN says Web filters will "embarrass" Aussie govt

An Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) chief has said the Australian government will "embarrass itself" if it pushes ahead with plans to install a national Internet content filter.

ComputerWorld Article

Censordyne - Web Filter Parody

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Censordyne - cleaning the internet Conroy style.

GetUp Campaign - flick them a few bucks to get this ad in front of politicians.

Chinese Govt. Vs Google

On Thursday, a Chinese official accused Google of spreading obscene content over the internet. The comments came a day after Google.com, Gmail and other Google online services abruptly became inaccessible to many users in China.

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This is the kind of crap that Conroy will be going on with once his filter is in place.

Chinese netizens.

Chinese netizens are fighting back.

China's filter isn't to US taste. Conroy's at it again.

US asks China to drop their filter.


And gamers find out that 15+ games are on Conroy's chopping block too. Despite almost everyone not wanting this Conroy forges on ahead.

There are two types of people in this debate: people who want a filter and people who know that it is an unworkable idea which is pushing against the censorship tide.

People want less censorship. We have tasted a world without the government telling us what to do. Toto has pulled back the curtain. Saying "Ignore the little man behind the curtain" isn't gonna work.

People don't just want Porn

Despite what the religious right would have us believe, the internet isn't awash with porn and people use it to socialise and research.

Much of this functionality will be damaged by the government's attempts to dumb down the internet to a G-Rating.

If people are seeking porn, they aren't seeking it because of the internet, they are seeking it because it is part of their sexual orientation.

Even China is ahead of Conroy

Even the Chinese Communist Party is more liberal minded and democratic than Conroy the puppet of the religious right.

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The Chinese government still has a problem with google allowing the Chinese to find porn.

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Those wacky chinese

I think the picture really sums it up. The internet is full of evil, black... spikey... thingoes that will un-happi-er-fy children.

Riiiiiight.

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China's compulsory filtering software.

China's filtering, in the same guise of protecting children as the Australian government's, will be just as easily abused to block anti-government content such as pictures of Garfield.

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The software has glitches and the communist party doesn't care what it's critics think and is going ahead with it's plan to implement the software regardless... sound familiar (I'm looking at you Conroy).

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Better filter this Conroy

Mr Illingworth retains Michael Byrne, QC

Mr Illingworth has retained Michael Byrne, QC to represent him in Maroochydore court this July. This is a hearing to determine whether the case will go to trial.

Byrne indicated that they will argue that the video is of a Russian circus family. He has similar videos to support this claim.

If Mr Illingworth is committed to trial none of us will be able to safely surf the net. As it is we could be charged for watching the video. With so many blind links on the net who knows what site we are off to next. Mr Illingworth did what most of us would naturally do, ask our peers whether the video was acceptable. It is just that his peers were a group on LiveLeek. As a community they didn't think there was much wrong with it but the police had to come in with their MeatWorld interpretation. Why can't they just leave us the hell alone?

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Finally, they admit they don't know what they are doing.

They don't have a defined outcome. They are just hoping that the technology reveals what is possible and that might be enough. Hopeless!

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Conroy's sex education

This is how he would have all sexual topic presented.

Australian Christian Lobby squarks

Wallace from the Australian Christian Lobby is carrying on about Labor's betrayal.

I like this article. It ties this stupid policy to its source, fundamentalist religion. This is an attempt by religious groups to get their religious views legislated.

They do not have to show causality. They do not have to show that people have been harmed by adult material they can just claim it and that is enough for them to get a say. Religion gives ignorance power and credibility that they have not earned and do not deserve.

Asher Moses's SMH article:

We walk with Egypt in web filtering.

"Freedoms of expression and public rights should be restricted by maintaining the fundamentals of religion, morality and patriotism."

Another secret museum of porn

It's OK for Museum staff to see porn, they've got the magic porn proofing that means they can look at it without exploding.... or some shit like that.

Why is this journo so upset about this? Have they failed to notice that the porn is for sale where the politicians work? Who could have missed that one?

It is quite right and appropriate for a national film archive to be holding pornography. This sort of body is the best defense against the nonsense that porn was invented in the 70s and will destroy society. Every recording technology ever invented has been used to record sexual acts. Get over it. Imagine th last time you had sex. Imagine it right now. See, we even use our memory to make porn.