Tag: firewall

No Clean Feed

Posted by – 04/01/2010

[via nocleanfeed.com]

The Australian Federal Government is pushing forward with a plan to force Internet Service Providers [ISPs] to censor the Internet for all Australians. This plan will waste tens of millions of taxpayer dollars and will not make anyone safer.

The filter will do almost nothing to prevent the people who are willfully making, trading, and accessing child sexual abuse material. This type of material is not distributed in the open and we need to fund police to continue to infiltrate and prosecute the groups of people responsible for creating and distributing such material.

The Pirate Party raids Canberra

Posted by – 04/01/2010

[via digihub.smh.com.au, originally written by aturner]

As if the Liberals didn’t have enough troubles, swashbuckling copyright pirates intend to contest the next federal election.

It’s not a joke, The Pirate Party is currently seeking 500 members – at $20 a piece – so it can become an officially registered party with the Australian Electoral Commission. The party’s constitution is “still in progress”, but its policies will be built on a “serious platform of intellectual property law reform and protection of privacy rights and freedom of speech”.