THE PROPOSED MANDATORY INTERNET FILTER, talked up by the Australian Government to protect children online, is now delving into freedom of speech.
After a user under the alias of of xFOADx wrote on online forum Whirlpool this evening….
Image: Aeriana on Whirlpool
It is still unknown as to where we are at when it comes to Internet censorship in Australia. With the Government continuing to not respond to media enquiries, it continues to make it difficult for people like myself to write about their side of the story. What do we do whilst people continue to get frustrated about this? Complain? Well that’s about all we can do.
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I had the chance to do a follow up interview with Mark Newton of Internode regarding the Australian Internet filtering proposition put forward by the Federal Government.
In the Interview Mark and Tech Wired Australia discuss what has happened in the past few weeks since we talked, including the expression of interest of which was released a couple of days ago.
Mark finds that the expression of interest is of very poor standard and seems like a rush job by the Government.
Give the interview a listen, and keep writing to the Government.
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THIS afternoon the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy officially released a wide net expression of interest for a trial phase of ISP level filtering.
According to publicly available documents that have been released by the Department…
“Limited funding is available for ISPs participating in the Pilot”
What exactly does this mean? Read more
