In addition to getting involved in the EFA's campaign
http://nocleanfeed.com
you can subscribe to their lists to stay informed (there are familiar
SLUG names there too!) http://www.efa.org.au/about/lists/
http://libertus.net/ and http://sites.google.com/site/filtermenot/home
have additional
meryl wrote:
In addition to getting involved in the EFA's campaign
http://nocleanfeed.com
you can subscribe to their lists to stay informed (there are familiar
SLUG names there too!) http://www.efa.org.au/about/lists/
http://libertus.net/ and http://sites.google.com/site/filtermenot/home
have
The no clean feed group have a template for a letter on their site I
think, I'll try to dig it up later.
I think this is very relevant to us as linux/open source/free software
users, if we follow the philosophy free as in freedom, not fee as in
beer then that should go not only for the os
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 09:02:52AM +1100, Mike wrote:
The no clean feed group have a template for a letter on their site I
think, I'll try to dig it up later.
http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/12/16/dont-waste-your-time-waste-theirs-a-guide-to-writing-to-ministers/
May (or may not) be of use.
Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
Well maybe it should have defaulted to a more restrictive scheme
rather than a less restrictive scheme.
I agree with that. The default should have been to move to next most
restrictive option in each case.
Terry
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jam wrote:
I'm not sure if this belongs here, sorry if it doesn't.
Well looks like the government got it's way. Our Internet will be
censored next year.
http://www.minister.dbcde.gov.au/media/media_releases/2009/115
I wrote to Conroy talking about proxies and ssh tunnels and received
Hey y'all
Sign the petition,
http://www.getup.org.au/campaign/SaveTheNetid=892
ddave
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David Andresen da...@hayday.biz writes:
Sign the petition,
http://www.getup.org.au/campaign/SaveTheNetid=892
A list of better things to do, which are more likely to influence the
legislation than a petition, is here: http://nocleanfeed.com/action.html
While petitions are nice and all, their
Don't pirates kidnap people and hold them for ransom, therefore denying
their freedom?
Anyway, I for one don't mind the Gov't filtering out child porn and all
the other crap that tries to get my attention.
There is so much good stuff out there that I can fill my mind with that
rather than
Not heard that one before.
Ben Donohue wrote:
Don't pirates kidnap people and hold them for ransom, therefore
denying their freedom?
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Is anyone aware of any groups taking more direct technical action
against this proposal?
I'm more of a builder of things than a talker, and it occurs to me
that if the scope of potential blocking is as wide as it (naively, to
me) appears to be (and based on comments such as 80% of the 95
million
Anyone heard of actual protests?
Dean
Adam Kennedy wrote:
Is anyone aware of any groups taking more direct technical action
against this proposal?
I'm more of a builder of things than a talker, and it occurs to me
that if the scope of potential blocking is as wide as it (naively, to
me)
Dean Hamstead wrote:
Anyone heard of actual protests?
there is/was this...
Aussie Gamers all around the country are preparing to take to the streets this
Saturday to protest the lack of an R18+ rating for video games in Australia
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Ben Donohue wrote:
Don't pirates kidnap people and hold them for ransom, therefore denying
their freedom?
Anyway, I for one don't mind the Gov't filtering out child porn and all
the other crap that tries to get my attention.
There is so much
I'm sure it wouldn't be QUITE that simple, but for 100 lines of code
I'm sure you could modify that to search for beastiality or Left 4
Dead 2 US Edition, scrape the front page to validate it a bit, then
submit.
But like I said, doing it properly would mean a bit more co-ordination...
Adam K
On
Adam Kennedy a...@ali.as writes:
I'm sure it wouldn't be QUITE that simple, but for 100 lines of code
I'm sure you could modify that to search for beastiality or Left 4
Dead 2 US Edition, scrape the front page to validate it a bit, then
submit.
But like I said, doing it properly would mean
Why would we need to bother writing something ourselves?
1. Go to google
2. Type in something likely to get bad content (eg. sex)
3. Submit EVERY SINGLE result to the list arbitrators
(Reasoning: well, clearly WE don't know what's classified - if we did,
why would we need the Government to
Daniel Pittman wrote:
Adam Kennedy a...@ali.as writes:
I'm sure it wouldn't be QUITE that simple, but for 100 lines of code
I'm sure you could modify that to search for beastiality or Left 4
Dead 2 US Edition, scrape the front page to validate it a bit, then
submit.
But like I said, doing it
Heracles is right. The Filtering problem is more about stifling freedoms
of speech and censoring the Net than it is about blocking child porn,
and it is bound to be extended into other areas so freedom of speech
will become a thing of the past for us in Australia. Apart from slowing
down our
After a quick scan through the restricted classification database on
the censors site, from which it appears that detailed instructions on
the production of homemade gun silencers is rated RC, I managed to
find a random YouTube video showing such details, and submitted it to
see what the process
On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 16:08 +1100, Adam Kennedy wrote:
Is anyone aware of any groups taking more direct technical action
against this proposal?
..
I'm pondering the idea of automating the web trawling process to find
NC content, and then just submit all 100 million NC content URLs to
the
I'm not suggesting this be the ONLY way of dealing with the issue.
If it's possibly to at least remove all the excuses that it's cheap
and easy, and demonstrate an ongoing series of high profile false
positives, and the resulting latency issues, and that the whole thing
is ungodly expensive.
On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 18:24 +1100, Adam Kennedy wrote:
I'm not suggesting this be the ONLY way of dealing with the issue.
If it's possibly to at least remove all the excuses that it's cheap
and easy, and demonstrate an ongoing series of high profile false
positives, and the resulting latency
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