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Chilly7 - EFA congratulates iiNet on its historic High Court victory

Chilly7 — Mon, 7 May 2012 14:51:42 +0000

Though the high court made its ruling, ISPs and Web sites may not be out of the woods yet. The "Future History" on on althist site predicts a law that would be SOPA 3.0, to be enacted in the next Congress that could have severe repurcussions for Australia, if their predictions are true. Australians could find themselves being extradited to the USA for violation of new criminal copyright statutes. I hope their predictions are wrong, but you never know what these SOPA weasals will come up with next.

Alexander Hayes - Melbourne event: War on the Internet

Alexander Hayes — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 23:12:33 +0000

Added this post detail to the Uberveillance website - http://uberveillance.squarespace.com/blog/2012/3/...

Jeff Citizen - Conroy: Filter alive and kicking

Jeff Citizen — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 07:48:33 +0000

I never used to care about such things but my eyes were opened one day when I realized what the social engineers like Conroy were taking away from us, piece by piece. It's not child porn they're 'saving' us all from, it's INFORMATION they don't want us to have. It's no coincidence that the number of sites that greet me with 'Connection has been reset" these days is creeping higher and higher. We Australians are so much like stupid sheep. We let our government order us around instead of showing them who's boss at election time. That miserable bastard Conroy has to go and anyone else who messes with our basic freedoms.

Jon Lawrence - Melbourne event: War on the Internet

Jon Lawrence — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:20:20 +0000

There's a link in this article that may be helpful: http://newmatilda.com/2012/01/24/yes-you-are-bein...

Jon Lawrence - Melbourne event: War on the Internet

Jon Lawrence — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:11:00 +0000

No internet filtering legislation has been introduced into parliament. EFA does not believe that such legislation would be likely to attract the support of the Greens and independents necessary to pass through the current parliament, and does not expect it to be introduced in the near future. EFA remains prepared to fight a public campaign against this legislation should it, or anything similar, be introduced.

Jon Lawrence - Melbourne event: War on the Internet

Jon Lawrence — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:09:57 +0000

Recording is available now at: www.vimeo.com/.efaoz

xanniau - Melbourne event: War on the Internet

xanniau — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 01:33:20 +0000

The videos are now available here: http://vimeo.com/efaoz/videos

Dan - Melbourne event: War on the Internet

Dan — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 14:44:50 +0000

I wasn't able to get online to watch the live stream. Will the recording be available for download?

Anonnation - Melbourne event: War on the Internet

Anonnation — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 11:47:26 +0000

One of the private organisations refereed to by Scott Ludlam was NOSIC. That ASIO, AFP outsourcing open source intelligence on people. Their website is nosic.com.au.

Paul Harrison - Melbourne event: War on the Internet

Paul Harrison — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 04:34:48 +0000

There discussion of police access to phone-call metadata of about 250,000 Australians with minimal oversight. I'd like to learn more about this, can anyone provide any links?

@indiacarless - Melbourne event: War on the Internet

@indiacarless — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 19:40:05 +0000

Will the recording be available soon? Saw it last night; so much great information that I'd like to watch it again.

Alexander Hayes - Melbourne event: War on the Internet

Alexander Hayes — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 11:17:06 +0000

A new category ? Surveillance ?

Rukkidin - Melbourne event: War on the Internet

Rukkidin — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 01:32:54 +0000

I would not be surprised if this will have deliberate contention issues in place by the government.

Jon Lawrence - Melbourne event: War on the Internet

Jon Lawrence — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 05:40:34 +0000

Hi Richard - Yes! We are planning to stream the event at: http://www.livestream.com/efa_oz We will also post a recording to this website, once it's ready. cheers Jon Lawrence EFA Board

richard crowden - Melbourne event: War on the Internet

richard crowden — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:23:46 +0000

Unfortunately I can't make it to Melbourne, is there going to be a live video feed or recording available afterwards?

grahamwhittaker - Melbourne event: War on the Internet

grahamwhittaker — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 23:37:49 +0000

What is the current state of Cleanfeed and internet censorship as of Jan 2012. I have been unable to find a single thing and suspect that Conroy has been very silent recently. Is there anywhere i can follow the progress of legistlation? Thanks

forsaken child - New domain names on the way

forsaken child — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 22:09:46 +0000

i'm happy to whatsoever things are good going on in the internet world. You make GOD Happy! keep up the Great Work! That's using the talents GOD Gives, and please praise GOD and continue being Thankful He chose YOU to give talents work!

Rebecca - Media Release - EFA condemns Whirlpool lawsuit

Rebecca — Thu, 3 Nov 2011 08:22:59 +0000

I'm obviously very naive - because to me this appears to be an open/shut case, since there is a strong defence (according to the defamation act 2005). I really don't see how they have a case at all, since the negative comments are obviously about individual users opinions (honest opinion) based on their experience. Surely if their products did what their customers expected (i.e. they got what they paid for) then their products would not be criticised so heavily. This could also go into substantive or contextual truth. Then you add in - what does whirlpool have to do - not allow 'public interest' information to be disseminated? How does the consumer group 'Choice' avoid defamation? If whirlpool users want to advise their community (it may be huge, and distributed, but it is essentially a community group) of the pitfalls they've experienced, and someone chooses not to spend their cash on that product because of it - surely thats not defamation, thats consumer choice based on workmanship?

Rob - Copyright fight heating up in Australia

Rob — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 05:26:36 +0000

Looks like I might give FreeNet a go after all.

Chilly8 - Copyright fight heating up in Australia

Chilly8 — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 06:05:24 +0000

And it may get worse. If Demand Progress is correct on the House version of Protect IP, in America, sites that host content anywhere in the world, could become liable under US laws. This could end up being far worse than anything has proposed so far. Australia could end up being affect by Protect IP. This bill will destroy the internet, it it becomes law.