Web filters to censor video games
Australia is the only developed country without an R18+ classification for games, meaning any titles that do not meet the MA15+ standard – such as those with excessive violence or sexual content – are simply banned from sale by the Classification Board, unless they are modified to remove the offending [...]
Byte Into It – 01 Jul 09
Byte Into It – 24 Jun 09
China carries on with censorship plan, as Google capitulates | Technology | guardian.co.uk
China has said it will continue with its plans to force every computer in the country to run a controversial filtering program that will further restrict the activities of web surfers.
Officials at the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said they would be [...]
Byte Into It – 17 Jun 09
Telstra split is needed: ACCC
THE AUSTRALIAN Competition and Consumer Commission has told the Federal Government the structural separation of Telstra is essential to its planned $43 billion national broadband network.
But Telstra in its submission to the Government’s review of telecommunications regulation argues that no further separation of its operations is necessary as the new network, [...]
Byte Into It – 10 Jun 09
Internet filter: $44.5m and no goal in sight – Technology – theage.com.au
The Rudd Government’s internet censorship policy will cost about $90,000 per blocked web address to implement and the Government has admitted it has not developed any criteria to determine whether trials of the scheme are a success.
The Opposition, Greens and online users’ lobby group [...]
