• A Song From Port-Au-Prince

    Updated: 2010-01-29 16:08:20
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  • Presenting the Fed as Financial Philosopher Kings

    Updated: 2010-01-29 14:52:23
    AP's story (1/28/10) on Ben Bernanke's reconfirmation as chair of the Federal Reserve states plainly what is more usually the unstated assumption in corporate media coverage of the Fed: The battle over Bernanke's confirmation has been a test of central bank independence, a crucial element if the Fed is to carry out unpopular but economically essential [...]

  • Obama Reverses Position on Disclosing Lobbyist Contacts

    Updated: 2010-01-28 21:45:25
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  • ACTA negotiations underway; background information from Michael Geist

    Updated: 2010-01-28 11:17:41
    The negotiations for the ACTA, the secret Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, are underway in Mexico this week, and there’s been a lot of coverage around the world of the lack of transparency in these talks. For those who are not familiar with the agreement, I want to recommend Michael Geist’s excellent five part ACTA Guide: The ACTA Guide, Part One: The Talks To-Date ACTA Guide, Part Two: The Documents (Official and Leaked) ACTA Guide, Part Three: Transparency and ACTA Secrecy Parts four and five will be up later this week. So far, these posts do a great job of succinctly explaining the ACTA process, what [...]

  • Update on the Great Australian Internet Blackout

    Updated: 2010-01-28 03:38:46
    All this week Australian websites having been going black as part of the Great Australian Internet Blackout.  So far this online demonstration has successfully reached a wide range of audiences, educating them about the problems with the Government’s mandatory Internet filter policy: There are 480 verified participating websites (and that only counts the websites that have directly submitted their sites for inclusion on our list),  including the websites of the Australian Greens, the Australian Democrats, iiNet, New Matilda and Online Opinion. More than 2300 Twitter users have blacked out their profile pictures using a countable method (Twibbon), while many more have blacked out their profile [...]

  • Help EFF Research Web Browser Tracking

    Updated: 2010-01-27 11:18:53
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  • Free Press Blogs on FCC's Net Neutrality Plans

    Updated: 2010-01-27 01:32:58
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  • Google has blocked all search recommendations on islam but has left negative search recommendations for other religions such as Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism etc…

    Updated: 2010-01-26 08:06:04
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  • Australian web sites to go black on Australia Day

    Updated: 2010-01-25 04:26:08
    Electronic Frontiers Australia today announced that over 500 web Australian sites will be “blacked out” on Australia day in protest against the Rudd government’s mandatory Internet filtering plan. Included among them are the Australian Greens, an Internet service provider, media outlets, and hundreds of other Australian businesses and organisations. “This policy has caused considerable anxiety amongst Australian Internet users,” said EFA Vice-Chair Colin Jacobs. “The idea that the Government will be inserting itself in every Internet connection in the country is a tough one to swallow, especially without a workable policy goal behind it.” The “Great Australian Internet Blackout” was the brainchild [...]

  • What can you do to help?

    Updated: 2010-01-25 01:45:24
    Ever since I became campaign manager for the EFA’s campaign against the Government’s mandatory Internet filter two and a half weeks ago, I have been overwhelmed by the level of enthusiasm and support for the EFA’s campaign.  Accordingly, the most frequent question I have been asked is “what can I do to help?”  Given this level of support and the desire of so many Australians to help defeat the Government’s policy, I thought I’d suggest ten things you can do to help the EFA’s campaign against the Government’s mandatory Internet filter. 1. Sign the Senate Internet Censorship Petition. Last week the EFA [...]

  • Government: “Global Internet freedom” means censorship

    Updated: 2010-01-22 04:44:52
    U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton yesterday delivered an important, wide-ranging speech on the subject of Internet freedom. Coming on the heels of the Chinese cyber-attacks on Google and other U.S. companies, and the increasing use of online censorship by authoritarian governments around the world, the speech draws a line in the sand and presents the USA as the global champion of online openness. Secretary Clinton Recognised that free access to information online is just as important in the modern age as the right to use a printing press was in earlier times. The ability to communicate with others over the [...]

  • Clinton speaks on Internet freedom

    Updated: 2010-01-21 23:58:47
    The cartoonist-blogger "Chengcheng" posted this photoshopped picture to express his feelings about Secretary Clinton's Internet freedom speech. He titled it: "Hillary leads the people." It appears that quite a lot of people in China watched the live video stream. The...

  • How not to save the Internet...

    Updated: 2010-01-20 00:23:02
    Secretary of State Hillary Clinton plans to give a big speech about Internet freedom on Thursday. People are calling on her to speak loudly against Chinese censorship and stand firm for free speech on the Chinese Internet - and elsewhere...

  • Authorities in India’s Orissa state are reportedly forcing Christian refugees out of the makeshift camps ahead of a visit this month by a European Union delegation.

    Updated: 2010-01-18 19:12:00
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  • Senate Internet Censorship Petition

    Updated: 2010-01-18 04:42:19
    Electronic Frontiers Australia has today launched a petition against the Government’s mandatory Internet filtering policy that will be presented to the Senate of the Parliament of Australia. You can sign the petition electronically by going to the this page and leaving your name, postcode and email address.  Please talk to your friends, family and colleagues about the problems with the Government’s mandatory Internet filtering policy and encourage them to sign the petition as well. We are also looking for volunteers to collect printed signatures.  If you are having a meeting or protest against the Government’s mandatory Internet filtering policy in the coming weeks, [...]

  • “Trollumnists” and Censorship

    Updated: 2010-01-18 01:23:31
    Because mandatory Internet censorship is such a hot button issue in the technology community, the technology media has understandably provided their readers with something of a running commentary on the proposal for some two years.  This has been great for campaigners who oppose the issue as it allows us to have a voice in ways that we can’t achieve on our own, and to be fair, provides an outlet for the handful of supporters of censorship to engage in public discourse as well. As EFA continues to work towards broadening the campaign against censorship, other folks with other opinions will continue [...]

  • Video: GuateVerde 2009 Business Plan Competition Winner: Quetsol [in Spanish]

    Updated: 2010-01-15 00:00:22
    Duration: 1 min 20 sec Quetsol is a new business that will provide high efficiency, low cost solar technologies that aim to increase access to basic illumination, electricity generation, and water pumping in Guatemala. Their mission is to help their clients save money and improve their quality of life through the use of appropriate technology. Bookmark blog [...]

  • R18+ Games event in Sydney this Saturday

    Updated: 2010-01-08 00:09:02
    Luke Lawrie from r18GamesAustralia.com is organising a consultation event this weekend in Sydney about the introduction of an R18+ rating for computer games: The Commonwealth Government has released a discussion paper which briefly summarises the key arguments for and against an R18+ classification for video games. Censorship Ministers have considered the issue of an adult classification for computer games on several occasions. However, they have not undertaken public consultation on this issue. We will be hitting the streets of Sydney to try and make some sort of impact, our goal is to make the public aware of the outdated classification system by [...]

  • New year, open road ahead

    Updated: 2010-01-04 18:04:43
    For those who aren't clear where I've been living and what exactly I've been doing, you're not alone. The answers to these two questions are: "nowhere" and "good question, I was just wondering that myself." I don't generally use this...

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