Re: [OT] Australian internet blackout

2010-01-28 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 28/01/2010 09:57, stephen barncard wrote: Sarah, that's a troubling issue. Has the EFF Electronic Frontier Foundation gotten involved? I know the founder John Barlow personally from my Grateful Dead days Some of us are just grateful that we are still alive (says he, misreading the

Re: [OT] Australian internet blackout

2010-01-28 Thread François Chaplais
There have been some attempts at that in France. Until now, they have been thwarted by the Constitutional Council who has asserted that the right to access the internet is part of the fundamental right to access information and (implicitly) is guaranteed by the constitution. Of course the

Re: [OT] Australian internet blackout

2010-01-28 Thread René Micout
Francois, I do not think the Hadopi law is comparable to what is happening in Australia (if I understand my English being what it is ...). In Australia, it seems that the government wants to censor access to some sites to protect children (?!), in France, the government would allow the

Re: [OT] Australian internet blackout

2010-01-28 Thread J. Landman Gay
Sarah Reichelt wrote: Hi All, I would like to apologise for any inconvenience, but anyone visiting my web site over the next week will see a blackout message in protest against the Australian government's planned compulsory internet filtering. I was reading about this elsewhere and I'm

Re: [OT] Australian internet blackout

2010-01-28 Thread François Chaplais
answer below René's post... Le 28 janv. 2010 à 17:20, René Micout a écrit : Francois, I do not think the Hadopi law is comparable to what is happening in Australia (if I understand my English being what it is ...). In Australia, it seems that the government wants to censor access to some

Re: [OT] Australian internet blackout

2010-01-28 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 28/01/2010 18:41, J. Landman Gay wrote: Sarah Reichelt wrote: Hi All, I would like to apologise for any inconvenience, but anyone visiting my web site over the next week will see a blackout message in protest against the Australian government's planned compulsory internet filtering. I was

Re: [OT] Australian internet blackout

2010-01-28 Thread Judy Perry
Stephen, Yes, the EFF is aware of the situation: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/12/fighting-internet-censorship-australia Judy On Wed, 27 Jan 2010, stephen barncard wrote: Sarah, that's a troubling issue. Has the EFF Electronic Frontier Foundation gotten involved? I know the founder

[OT] Australian internet blackout

2010-01-27 Thread Sarah Reichelt
Hi All, I would like to apologise for any inconvenience, but anyone visiting my web site over the next week will see a blackout message in protest against the Australian government's planned compulsory internet filtering. This is a badly considered policy that will not achieve it's intended goal,

Re: [OT] Australian internet blackout

2010-01-27 Thread stephen barncard
Sarah, that's a troubling issue. Has the EFF Electronic Frontier Foundation gotten involved? I know the founder John Barlow personally from my Grateful Dead days sqb - Stephen Barncard San Francisco http://houseofcubes.com/disco.irev On 27 January 2010 22:15, Sarah