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Category: FilteringBy Curt on Sep 20, 2007 in Australia, Filtering, Censorship | 0 Comments
The desire to censor is global. An article in The Australian outlines efforts by Communications Minister Senator Helen Coonan to extend the “black list” of banned websites in that country. The West’s equivalent to “insulting the leaders” and “fomenting hatred” is “enabling terrorism” and that’s the fulcrum Senator Helen’s legislation moves on.
By Curt on Sep 20, 2007 in Burma, Filtering, Censorship | 1 Comment
Interesting article in Asia Times Online. Burma’s devoted to suppression of thought on the Internet but dissidents, internally and externally, are working around it.
By Curt on Sep 17, 2007 in Filtering, Google, Iran | 0 Comments
Calling it an “error” the briefly-blocked search engine Google is usable again in Iran. One of the problems with filtering software, according to ONI reports, is the difficulty, perhaps impossibility, in not throwing out the baby with the bathwater. The filtering controls are ham-fisted and it’s difficult, if not impossible, to surgically ban say pornography […]
