Communications Regulator to Fine People Who Link to Blacklisted Sites
Posted in Big Brother, Government, Law Enforcement, Politics, Technology on Mar 18th, 2009
Tag Archive 'censorship'
Uproar in Australia Over Plan to Block Web Sites
Posted in Big Brother, Computer, Facebook, Government, Science, Surveillance, Websites on Dec 26th, 2008
A proposed Internet filter dubbed the “Great Aussie Firewall” is promising to make Australia one of the strictest Internet regulators among democratic countries.
Consumers, civil-rights activists, engineers, Internet providers and politicians from opposition parties are among the critics of a mandatory Internet filter that would block at least 1,300 Web sites prohibited by the government — [...]