ACMA blocks political website
Investigations by Whirlpool community user xFoadx has found that political websites are anything but immune to the ACMA ban-hammer.
Anti-abortion advocacy website abortiontv.com was submitted to the ACMA by xFoadx as a phony complaint. Unfortunately, the ACMA fell for the deception and added the site to its blacklist.
Further information can be found at:
Australian Christian Lobby resorts to hypocrisy to promote the filter
Managing Director of the Australian Chrisitan Lobby Jim Wallace has written an article in the Sydney Morning Herald accusing the anti-censorship lobby, in particular the GetUp! foundation, of cherry picking statistics and misleading the public.
He then choose to fight this by cherry picking statistics and misleading the public.
Further information can be found at:
- Geordie Guy - Geordie Guy fires up about the blatant hypocrisy in Jim’s article
- Websinthe - Websinthe rebuts the article point-by-point
- Stilgherrian - Tears shreds out of the political childishness and lies in the article
- Letters to the SMH - Letters to the SMH show that readers truly disagree with Jim Wallace
Netspace survey shows Internet users do not want the ISP filter
Australian ISP Netspace has conducted a survey of nearly 10,000 of its customers asking questions about the government’s proposed filter.
The results were a statistical bombardment of the government’s claims that the Australian populace actually wants the filter.
Further information can be found at:
- Netspace - The survey results
- TechWiredAU
- Somebody Think Of The Children
*Links in order of post order
Tags: ACL, Jim Wallace, nocensorship, nocleanfeed
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