The Rudd Government, via Communications Minister Stephen Conroy, has closed down a free, optional software filter system for parents…so they can replace it with a mandatory filter system for everybody about 12 months from now. In the meantime? Open sla…
Communications Minister Stephen Conroy’s tangled web is getting is gettting more deceitful by the day! His ACMA censors have blocked an anti-abortion site, which even has the pro-censorship churches up in arms. Read more…
A major debate on ‘The Future of Freedom and Control in the Internet Age’ will be held in New York on 10, by the Open Society Institute. OSI usually makes its debates available on audio afterwards. The Open Society Institute and the Asia Society cordia…
"Freedom of speech is fundamentally important in a democratic society and there has never been any suggestion that the Australian Government would seek to block political content," intoned Senator Stephen Conroy one day. Yet the very next day,…
The Supreme Court has ruled that a US law aimed at shielding children from pornography online violates the constitutional right to free speech. The American ruling is a severe embarrassment to Australian Communications Minister Stephen Conroy, who is…
A Harvard-led research panel, created by 49 US state Attorneys-General, has found that the internet may not be such a dangerous place for children after all – bullying offline and online is a far greater problem. The 278-page report concludes that there…