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South Australian Government gags internet debate
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| * Anonymous comments banned for SA
| election
| * Michael Atkinson says speech still
| free
| * Media says censorship is 'draconian'
|
| SOUTH Australia has become one of the few
| states in the world to censor the
| internet.
|
| The new law, which came into force on
| January 6, requires anyone making an
| online comment about next month's state
| election to publish their real name and
| postcode.
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http://www.news.com.au/technology/south-australian-state-government-gags-internet-debate/story-e6frfro0-1225825750956
Rann Government curbs internet debate
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| South Australia's Attorney-General has
| defended tougher laws on political comment
| made on the internet.
|
| During election periods, anyone posting
| comment or blogs must publish their real
| name and postcode.
|
| Michael Atkinson says it has long been a
| requirement that newspapers verify
| personal details for letters published
| during election periods.
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/02/02/2807584.htm
Does Freedom Of The Press In The UK Include Just Making Things Up?
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| Of course, it's also noted that Reporters
| Without Borders ranks the UK higher than
| the US when it comes to freedom of the
| press, leading the professor to claim that
| perhaps the UK press is a little too free
| when it feels comfortable making such
| totally unsubstantiated claims.
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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100127/2059357952.shtml
Vision Media Requests Injunction Against Blogging That âCast[s it] in a Negative Lightâ
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| When it added Public Citizenâs defense of
| Julia Forteâs 800Notes.com to the Citizen
| Media Law Project database the Project
| took note of a bizarre motion filed by
| Vision Media, asking the court to prohibit
| any public discussion about its lawsuit,
| including blogging. The motion is an
| apparent response to my email to Vision
| Mediaâs counsel inviting them respond on
| this blog to my comments about their
| lawsuit.
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http://pubcit.typepad.com/clpblog/2010/01/vision-media-requests-injunction-against-blogging-that-casts-it-in-a-negative-light.html
Recent:
Internet Blackout: The final verdict
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| The Great Australian Internet Blackout
| campaign against mandatory ISP-level
| filtering has attracted twice as many
| websites to its cause as had pledged before
| it began.
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http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/communications/soa/Internet-Blackout-The-final-verdict/0,130061791,339300670,00.htm?omnRef=1337
Lundy plays good cop to Conroy's bad cop
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| Last week at the annual Australian national
| Linux conference in New Zealand, Waugh, a
| former self-styled open source advocate, was
| using loads of tired bizspeak to promote
| the so-called open government policy - but
| she avoided saying anything about the
| filter. When someone dd try to engage her on
| the subject, she did a deft sidestep.
|
| Meanwhile, yesterday, at the closing
| ceremony of the same conference, the other
| half of the family, Jeff, was urging people
| to black out their avatars on their social
| networking sites to protest against the
| policy.
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http://www.itwire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=30665&Itemid=1090
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