This is a cross post from my Facebook note found here: http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=299394242033&comments I did this on the spur of the moment last night so wasn’t concerned about accessibility outside of Facebook so this also includes the comments for those that cannot access the note. I apologise about the formatting; just in a bit of a [...]
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The Digital Liberty Coalition is currently trying to organise material and goodies for anyone wishing to volunteer to hit the streets and spread awareness. Any town or city, if you’d like to give an hour or two of your time – let us know by emailing volunteers[at]dlc.asn.au and we’ll see if we can organise [...]
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So I came off a graveyard shift this morning and slept all day. Now catching up on the chatter about developments on Conroy’s filter… looks like we had a fun day! So here’s a summary and some nice links to reports: Thailand’s secret Internet blacklist has been leaked on Wikileaks. Followed by Denmark’s blacklist too. [...]
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The internet filter proposal has now got even worse (or well, more laughable really), with Senator Conroy announcing on his latest blog post that the “live” trial will also be testing P2P filtering: “The Government understands that ISP-level filtering is not a ‘silver bullet’. We have always viewed ISP-level filtering as one part of a [...]
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Nothing but appalled and enraged by Deborah Robinson’s latest low act to silence those with an opposing viewpoint. Australian Women Online are one of the few supporters of the mandatory internet filter and like many other filter supporters, don’t seem to listen to logic when someone from the anti-filter movement tries to reason with them. People [...]
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I’ve been asked a lot of questions about the Digital Liberty Coalition (‘DLC’) so I’ll try and address the main ones here. If you attended Sydney’s rally, you would have heard Jerry Hutchinson speak on behalf the DLC, our national resources manager. He always welcomes people to contact him and you can reach him at [...]
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Well I’ve still not fully recovered from the rally, work needs to be done so it’s time to be off my butt… I kicked off Saturday, December 13th in great shape – sick as a dog. Been sick for a few weeks and a guess the big day’s stress just wasn’t helping. So before 10am [...]
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