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Thursday 8 July 2010

Pushback to Australian Net censorship increasing?

Internet users in Australia are beginning to push back against Internet censorship with Web sites advocating political action as well as those giving instructions on the use of the Tor proxy network to avoid analysis by the censors

The country is considered to have the strictest censorship of any developed nation for video games and Internet sites hosted in the country. 

 Don_t Filter Me


http://www.dontfilterme.com/ (Domain registered July 2)

Electronic Frontiers

http://openinternet.com.au/take_action/ (Registered February 2010)

No Clean Feed


http://nocleanfeed.com/ (Registered February 2008)

And, of course, as with all censorship schemes, stories detailing what exactly is being censored can get pretty strange:

Small breasts banned

January 28, 2010

http://www.inquisitr.com/59633/australian-government-censor-confirms-small-breast-ban-sort-of/

Thanks Alex

Tom Kelchner

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