So, the Youth Ordinance Bill that just passed in Japan - what do you think?

Me, I want to read the text of the bill as passed first before I draw any conclusions, so if anyone out there has a link to it please send over. Preferably properly translated English version, but I'll take the original Japanese (and badger tammaiya with her l337 Japanese plus ( Read more... )

The Australian Human Rights Commission has threatened legal action against the widely read but controversial Encyclopedia Dramatica over an article that encourages racial hatred against Aborigines.For those in Australia keeping an eye on what's been happening with the internet filter, Encyclopedia Dramatica was listed by the Australian ( Read more... )

Federal Labor split over mandatory internet filter

Best news I've read today, particularly while I'm trying to write my own piece on the internet filter.

As an update on yesterday's post, this was great news to wake up this morning.

South Australian Attorney-General backs down, will ditch law outlawing anonymous political bloggingIn Atkinson's words: "It may be humiliating for me but that's politics in a democracy, I'll take my lumps. This way, no one need fear now that they are being censored on ( Read more... )

The South Australian Government has passed laws that may effectively censor political speech during election times.The new law, which came into force on January 6, requires internet bloggers, and anyone making a comment on next month's state election, to publish their real name and postcode when commenting on an election story on South Australian ( Read more... )

Follow-up to previous entry re: the introduction of the mandatory internet filter in Australia, for all the Australian netizens on my flist, if you want to do something about the filter, something more than ranting at the computer or TV screen, try writing to Minister Conroy, the Department of Broadband, Communications, and the Digital Economy ( ( Read more... )

FUCKING HELL.

The Australian Government has green-lighted its highly controversial censorship plan to introduce a mandatory internet filter that will block refused classification content from being accessed on Australian soil.

New legislative amendments to be introduced to the Broadcasting Services Act when parliament resumes next year could see ( Read more... )

UK Parliament considering extending legislative definition of child pornography to cover "non-photographic images." Read: artwork and comics and manga.