Hi, Thomas Beagle at Tech Liberty has been following this closely: http://techliberty.org.nz/issues/internet-filtering/
This is the closest to a unified protest point in NZ I am aware of, so you may like to consider directing contributing your voices of opposition there. Its a tricky issue: on one hand its great that evil things like child porn are being blocked, but on the other hand there isn't enough gov't accountability for what goes on the list. That imho is the real crux of the issue, and reflects the problem with the oz situation. Who decides what is blocked and why? According to what value system? AND...why aren't there any women in the independent reference group (any volunteers?)? Cheers, Bronwyn On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 10:41 PM, Julian Oliver <[email protected]>wrote: > ..on Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 03:35:19PM +1300, Peter Gorman wrote: > > It appears that the filter list contains 7000 urls and is secret: > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/12/new_zealand_internet_filter/ > > If these URLs were places, other countries or even landmark objects on the > landscape that couldn't be visited, people would take to the street and > demand > answers. > > Just as with the U.S Homeland Security act's surveilling of digital data, > it is > because people can't /imagine/ the process of capturing and opening an > email, > listening in on a cellular phone call or snooping on HTTP traffic they let > it > go. Conversely, if they knew their hand written letters to Aunty Betty were > being > opened by the postal service, they'd be up in arms. > > The increasing sophistication and thus opacity of digital technology yields > itself well to the persistent corporate and governmental compromise of > basic > civil rights, even the idea of civil rights themselves. > > The vast proportion of people that depend on email and the internet don't > really > know what email and the internet actually are. They don't know what a > server is, > let alone ports and protocols, the basis of filters. > > Without wanting to get too poetic here, it is death by a thousand cuts from > a > blade honed on ignorance. > > tcpdump -i wlan0 -s 0 'tcp port 25' -A | grep "a thousand cuts" > > Julian > > > > > On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 5:12 AM, Julian Oliver <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > ..on Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 05:10:07PM +0100, Damian Stewart wrote: > > >> i don't understand - what is being filtered? why? and in what form? > black bars instead of images? the scoop article doesn't really say anything > about this, anyone have any more details? i assume they're looking for child > porn or something.. > > > > > > Yep, it seems so. Though in practice citizens would be none the wiser > if other > > > content was also being filtered/inspected! > > > > > > > http://techliberty.org.nz/issues/internet-filtering/filtering-faq/ > > > > > > (love the fact one of the ISPs is called 'Watchdog'). > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > > > Julian > > > > > >> > > >> On 12 Mar 2010, at 16:52, Julian Oliver wrote: > > >> > > >> > > > >> > NZ has joined the likes of China, United Arab Emirates, Australia > and Iran as > > >> > countries whose leaders coerce ISPs to filter internet content: > > >> > > > >> > http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1003/S00159.htm > > >> > > > >> > Reccommended reading for New Zealanders: > > >> > > > >> > http://en.flossmanuals.net/CircumventionTools > > >> > > > >> > Reccommended Song O' the Day: > > >> > > > >> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=monyiOsoKxg > > >> > > > >> > Beast, > > >> > > > >> > -- > > >> > Julian Oliver > > >> > home: New Zealand > > >> > based: Berlin, Germany > > >> > currently: Berlin, Germany > > >> > about: http://julianoliver.com > > >> > _______________________________________________ > > >> > Ada_list mailing list > > >> > [email protected] > > >> > http://aotearoadigitalarts.org.nz/ > > >> > > >> -- > > >> damian stewart . @damiannz . [email protected] > > >> frey . contemporary art . http://www.frey.co.nz > > >> > > >> _______________________________________________ > > >> Ada_list mailing list > > >> [email protected] > > >> http://aotearoadigitalarts.org.nz/ > > > > > > -- > > > Julian Oliver > > > home: New Zealand > > > based: Berlin, Germany > > > currently: Berlin, Germany > > > about: http://julianoliver.com > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Ada_list mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://aotearoadigitalarts.org.nz/ > > > > > -- > Julian Oliver > home: New Zealand > based: Berlin, Germany > currently: Berlin, Germany > about: http://julianoliver.com > _______________________________________________ > Ada_list mailing list > [email protected] > http://aotearoadigitalarts.org.nz/ >
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