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Australia’s Mandatory Internet Filtering plan scrapped in favour of INTERPOL block list 9 Nov 2012 | 12:10 am
The Australian Government will no longer introduce Mandatory Filtering legislation in Australia. Labor’s planned filtering legislation would have seen a broad range of legal content (originally define...
Movies you won’t see at the 2012 Mardi Gras Film Festival 21 Feb 2012 | 09:45 pm
Screen cap from In Their Room: Berlin You won’t see Community Action Centre or In Their Room: Berlin at the 2012 Mardi Gras Film Festival. The Australian Classification Board has refused to give fest...
Shoot View: Google Maps shooting mash-up a controversy in waiting? 13 Dec 2011 | 01:42 pm
It’s rare that I use Somebody Think of the Children to preempt outrage (rarer than me posting at all, sorry), but I expect we’ll hear more about this Google Maps Street View mashup that allows you to ...
Billboard trolling: The Tool Shop 20 Jul 2011 | 10:04 pm
The billboard The Tool Shop’s “Imagine all three at once” billboard is the advertising equivalent of trolling Facebook. And where there’s a troll there’s someone taking the bait. In this case Queensl...
Welcome home? 25 Jun 2011 | 02:47 am
Hi all. It’s been nearly a year since I blogged about censorship here on Somebody Think of the Children. In fact, it’s been nearly a year since I wrote about censorship at all. Apart from the occasion...
L.A. Zombie banned at Melbourne International Film Festival 21 Jul 2010 | 10:21 am
The Australian Classification Board has banned L.A. Zombie from screening at the Melbourne International Film Festival. According to The Age, the ACB refused to issue an exemption for the festival to ...
Filter on hold until 2011, post election 10 Jul 2010 | 12:04 am
by Tim Biggs The Federal Government’s mandatory internet filter will not likely be introduced for a year, until after a review of what content would be blocked. Stephen Conroy today announced a new ...
Four Corners and Q&A look at Rudd’s net censorship plans 10 May 2010 | 07:50 pm
Just a quick reminder folks that both Four Corners and Q&A on ABC this evening (Monday, May 10) are about Labor’s Internet censorship policy (which is still very much on their agenda, despite some rep...
Giveaway: Ticket to Sydney IQ2Oz net censorship debate, May 11 5 May 2010 | 09:37 pm
Update 6:40PM May 6: Ticket is still available. I can’t make it down to Sydney next week as planned, so my ticket to IQ2 Oz’s Governments should not censor the Internet debate to be held at Angel Plac...
Conroy to debate Newton, Lumby, Jacobs on Radio National 28 Mar 2010 | 06:17 pm
Senator Conroy will debate ISP filtering with Colin Jacobs from Electronic Frontiers Australia, network engineer Mark Newton and Professor Catharine Lumby on Radio National this Monday the 29th of Mar...
