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In a stunning blow to the growingly theocratic Australian Government, the United States Government has officially raised concerns about Australia's proposed internet filter.
According to Australian media reports, the U.S. State Department has "raised...concerns on this matter with ...
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It doesn't take much skill in prognostication to figure out when I got up this morning and started perusing my morning feeds that the whole China vs Google and their coattail riders would still be hitting the ...
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At I read Duncan's post the other day about Google climbing back on their phoney high horse to ride out of China on I remembered back to a podcast that Cyndy Aleo-Carreira, myself and Duncan did together ...
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Switzerland looks like it could be following the lead of Germany, Venezuela, and Australia, and clamping down further on violent videogames in the near future.
The Swiss parliament has passed a proposal to ban any game that "requires ...
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11 March 2010 (Inquisitr Wire): The Australian Governmentʼs Internet censorship proposal is a deep concern for artists, civil libertarians and for parents -- indeed, it is a concern for all Australians. Anti-censorship
activists plan to strike back ...
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If you live in Perth, Melbourne and Brisbane, a big reminder that if you can spare an hour or two tomorrow (Saturday March 6) there are Stop The Filter rallies in each city.
Each rally is being ...
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The ongoing obsession with censorship by the Australian Government continues with two new targets coming into view: Facebook and game review sites.
The interest in Facebook comes after a number of tribute Facebook groups for killed kiddies were ...
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It is really funny to watch all this gnashing of teeth over Apple's decision to institute a whole new set of guidelines as to what apps are copesetic or not in its App Store. I mean seriously ...
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PlayStation 3 exclusive Heavy Rain won't be appearing in the United Arab Emirates, due to its focus on serial killers, violence and boobies. The censorship-happy Gulf state has announced that it has banned the game, which ...
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The Australian Government is considering a crackdown on online racism, including the possibility of extending the proposed internet filter to block anything moderately deemed as racist content.
Australian Attorney-General Robert McClelland has requested that the Australian Human Rights ...
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If you haven't seen our coverage before, the Australian Government is proposing to introduce Chinese style internet censorship on internet access in Australia.
Going into the last Australian Election, the Australian Labor Party (ALP) presented a policy of ...
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12 hours after launching Operation Titstorm, the campaign by Anonymous against the Australian Government continues.
At the time of writing (8:20pm AEDT) aph.gov.au isn't completely down (that is, with a down message) but in our testing hasn't loaded ...
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Anonymous has targeted the Australian Government today in a co-ordinated protest raid against Australia's ban on small breasts and proposed introduction of Internet censorship.
The raid started at 8am AEDT (1pm US PST) and involves denial of service ...
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Although user reports about 4chan access on Verizon Wireless vary, the 4chan status blog reports that Verizon may have taken the inadvisable step of "explicitly" blocking the site.
4chan is famous in part for large scale retaliation against ...
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"The spectre of broadscale Internet censorship in Australia has been covered previously here on The Next Web before, but many outside Australia may wonder: why should you care if you don’t live in Australia."
So begins my guest ...
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The Pirate Party Australia welcomes the decision of Justice Cowdroy in the Federal Court today,
and whilst AFACT will most probably appeal this decision, we take it as a victory for common
sense.
"This is a good decision by Justice ...
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Because Christians and their belief in an invisible sky man must never, ever, ever be offended, forthcoming EA game Dante's Inferno will have its motto - "Go to Hell" - censored when a commercial for the game ...
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The news yesterday that the Australian Government has banned small breasts in adult content on the basis that they might look underage has been confirmed...sort of.
In response to Somebody Think of the Children, the Australian Censorship Board ...
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Any pretense from the Australian Government that its proposed internet filter will not extend to millions of sites has died with news that the Government has banned small breasts and female ejaculation in adult material.
The ban (RC) ...
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We knew it was only a matter of time before Google's refusal to censor search results in China would spill over into other aspects of the companies business, now the Cupertino, California company have announced the delay ...
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China Unicom has announced today that their two newest Google Android based devices have been delayed as the Cupertino, CA company continues to battle China over internet search censorship issues. The devices include an offering from Samsung ...
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The Australian media (via an AAP story) is reporting today that Google Australia has agreed to "take down a racist site" (Fairfax) or block "links to Encyclopedia Dramatica Aborigine page" (News Ltd).
The report details a complaint from ...
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