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What is the 'Clean Feed'?
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| The Australian Federal Government is pushing
| forward with a plan to force Internet
| Service Providers [ISPs] to censor the
| Internet for all Australians. This plan will
| waste tens of millions of taxpayer dollars
| and will not make anyone safer.z
|
| Despite being almost universally condemned
| by the public, ISPs, State Governments,
| Media and censorship experts, Communications
| Minister Stephen Conroy is determined to
| force this filter into your home.
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http://nocleanfeed.com/
Australia Edges Us Towards the Digital Dark Ages
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| The first is that it won't actually stop
| people accessing illegal or unsuitable
| content. As fast as sites and IP addresses
| are blocked, others will pop up in an online
| arms race that is unwinnable by leaden-
| footed bureaucracy.
|
| Another issue is that by providing a
| compulsory filtering of the feed, the
| Australian government could easily lull
| parents into a false sense of security, and
| actually *increase* the risk of children
| being exposed to dangerous material. As with
| all kinds of online dangers, the best
| protection is for parents to be actively
| involved in the children's exploration of
| that world, and it's foolish to send out the
| message that the government is now
| âtacklingâ this problem, because many people
| will draw the inevitable conclusion that
| they don't need to worry about the issue any
| more.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=2698&blogid=14
Chinese domain crackdown targets smut sites
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| Chinese regulators have started to request
| business licences and paperwork before
| allowing future .cn domain registrations.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/15/china_domain_regs/
District Court Finds Personal E-Mail From Work Still Privileged
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| A federal prosecutor has won his fight to
| conceal e-mails he sent to his attorney over
| the governmentâs computers, contradicting a
| popular belief that employees have no
| expectation of privacy on work computers.
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http://legaltimes.typepad.com/blt/2009/12/district-court-finds-personal-email-from-work-still-privileged.html
North Face Didn't Get The Message; Sues South Butt
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| Earlier this year, we wrote about how
| outdoor clothing firm North Face was
| seriously overreacting in threatening a
| small parody clothing manufacturer run by an
| 18-year-old student creating clothing under
| the "South Butt" brand name. At the time, we
| were amused by the boy's lawyer noting:
|
| "I did try to explain with a great deal
| of candor to counsel for the North Face
| that the general public is aware of the
| difference between a face and a butt."
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20091214/2350107352.shtml
Don't Sing-a-long: Capitol v Vimeo re 'Lip Dub' Videos
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| Vimeo is a video-sharing site (owned by
| InterActive Corp). It apparently hosts many
| videos consisting of 'lip dubs,' like the
| one above actually performed by the Vimeo
| staff.
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http://www.schwimmerlegal.com/2009/12/dont_singalong.html
Recent:
Mandelson's Power to Censor the Net
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| Hidden away inside the Bill, there's
| unlimited - and arbitrary - censorship of
| any site the Secretary of State takes
| against:
|
| Surely something must limit this power
| you ask? It seems not. The Secretary of
| State may make an order if "he considers
| it appropriate" in view of:
|
| (a) an assessment carried out or steps
| taken by OFCOM under section 124G; or
| (b) any other consideration.
|
| Where "any other consideration" could be
| anything. To their credit the Tories do
| seem to have realised that this
| particular alternative is overly
| permissive. Lord Howard of Rising and
| Lord de Mauley have proposed (in the
| first tranche of amendments proposed
| that the "or" be replaced by an "and".
|
| What astonishes me is that there is no
| obligation for the Secretary of STate to
| even publish such an order, let alone
| subject it to the scrutiny of
| Parliament, yet he could fundamentally
| change the way the internet operates
| using it. Other orders made under other
| parts of the Bill will have to be made
| by statutory instrument and most will
| require Parliamentary approval. Not this
| one.
|
| If this goes through, we are in deep
| trouble, people....
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/12/mandelsons-power-to-censor-net.html
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