items tagged with Censorship
Modern Warfare 2 dividing communities
Written By: Mike Bantick
Section: Radioactive IT
Category: Gaming and Entertainment tech blog
2009-11-09 18:39:15
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has hit the shelves worldwide, but the battle lines are drawn beyond the video-game screen.
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Written By: Mike Bantick
Section: Radioactive IT
Category: Gaming and Entertainment tech blog
2009-11-09 18:39:15
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has hit the shelves worldwide, but the battle lines are drawn beyond the video-game screen.
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Left 4 Dead 2 still banned after board review
Written By: Mike Bantick
Section: Technology Lifestyle
Category: New Products
2009-10-22 19:21:42
Looks like the efforts by developer Valve and comments by publisher Electronic Arts have not been enough to get a new version of Left 4 Dead 2 past the Australian Classification Board.
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Written By: Mike Bantick
Section: Technology Lifestyle
Category: New Products
2009-10-22 19:21:42
Looks like the efforts by developer Valve and comments by publisher Electronic Arts have not been enough to get a new version of Left 4 Dead 2 past the Australian Classification Board.
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Mad Max EA response to banned Left 4 Dead 2
Written By: Mike Bantick
Section: Technology Lifestyle
Category: Consoles
2009-09-23 20:57:21
Electronic Arts has pulled together a few words, stating the obvious in response to the recent banning of Left 4 Dead 2 in Australia. Whilst working with the Australian Classification Board in getting Left 4 Dead 2 across the line, EA have pointed out the beliefs of many when it comes to the hypocrisy of video-game classification in a country that has produced some wonderful, yet violence-based, entertainment media in the past.
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Written By: Mike Bantick
Section: Technology Lifestyle
Category: Consoles
2009-09-23 20:57:21
Electronic Arts has pulled together a few words, stating the obvious in response to the recent banning of Left 4 Dead 2 in Australia. Whilst working with the Australian Classification Board in getting Left 4 Dead 2 across the line, EA have pointed out the beliefs of many when it comes to the hypocrisy of video-game classification in a country that has produced some wonderful, yet violence-based, entertainment media in the past.
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Australia bans another game
Written By: Mike Bantick
Section: Technology Lifestyle
Category: New Products
2009-08-11 19:42:57
Another one bites the dust, this time the role playing game (RPG) Risen has fallen on the bad side of the Australian Classification Board due to chatting up prostitutes and smoking imaginary drugs
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Written By: Mike Bantick
Section: Technology Lifestyle
Category: New Products
2009-08-11 19:42:57
Another one bites the dust, this time the role playing game (RPG) Risen has fallen on the bad side of the Australian Classification Board due to chatting up prostitutes and smoking imaginary drugs
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Interview: Tom Crago: President Game Developers Association of Australia
Written By: Mike Bantick
Section: Radioactive IT
Category: Gaming and Entertainment tech blog
2009-08-11 00:18:38
Here is the full text of the interview between iTWire and Tom Crago. Crago is the President of the Game Developers Association of Australia (GDAA) and CEO of Tantalus software, making games out of Melbourne Australia. In the interview Crago touches on the upcoming Game Connect Asia Pacific conference, censorship of games in Australia and upcoming Tantalus releases.
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Written By: Mike Bantick
Section: Radioactive IT
Category: Gaming and Entertainment tech blog
2009-08-11 00:18:38
Here is the full text of the interview between iTWire and Tom Crago. Crago is the President of the Game Developers Association of Australia (GDAA) and CEO of Tantalus software, making games out of Melbourne Australia. In the interview Crago touches on the upcoming Game Connect Asia Pacific conference, censorship of games in Australia and upcoming Tantalus releases.
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HP Darknet destroys Black Hat elephant
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2009-07-19 16:45:51
Could HP have come up with a Darknet for the great unwashed at last? All will be revealed at Black Hat in Las Vegas.
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2009-07-19 16:45:51
Could HP have come up with a Darknet for the great unwashed at last? All will be revealed at Black Hat in Las Vegas.
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Conroy beats Sarkozy for Internet Villain of the Year award
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Internet
2009-07-12 05:51:56
Controversial Australian politician Stephen Conroy has picked up an online Oscar for his starring role as Internet villain of the year, but let's not forget the supporting cast: the Australian Government.
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Internet
2009-07-12 05:51:56
Controversial Australian politician Stephen Conroy has picked up an online Oscar for his starring role as Internet villain of the year, but let's not forget the supporting cast: the Australian Government.
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PlayStation Home banned
Written By: Mike Bantick
Section: Radioactive IT
Category: Gaming and Entertainment tech blog
2009-06-30 22:23:02
Not really, but the Australian Government’s plan to turn the controversial ISP filter eye towards unclassified interactive entertainment (video games) such as World of Warcraft and Second Life could have further ramifications than the obvious.
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Written By: Mike Bantick
Section: Radioactive IT
Category: Gaming and Entertainment tech blog
2009-06-30 22:23:02
Not really, but the Australian Government’s plan to turn the controversial ISP filter eye towards unclassified interactive entertainment (video games) such as World of Warcraft and Second Life could have further ramifications than the obvious.
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Plan to censor online video games
Written By: Mike Bantick
Section: Radioactive IT
Category: Gaming and Entertainment tech blog
2009-06-25 19:44:01
The Australian Federal Government has turned the eye of its proposed ISP web filter towards a current classification loophole, online video games and their import sites.
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Written By: Mike Bantick
Section: Radioactive IT
Category: Gaming and Entertainment tech blog
2009-06-25 19:44:01
The Australian Federal Government has turned the eye of its proposed ISP web filter towards a current classification loophole, online video games and their import sites.
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Ahmadinejad versus the Internet: who's winning?
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2009-06-17 20:30:04
The Iranian Government's attempts to restrict Internet access in the wake of this week's disputed election has become something of a test case for the Internet's ability to impact democratic change, and for a government's ability to prevent it doing so, and in Iran at least the Internet may be winning.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2009-06-17 20:30:04
The Iranian Government's attempts to restrict Internet access in the wake of this week's disputed election has become something of a test case for the Internet's ability to impact democratic change, and for a government's ability to prevent it doing so, and in Iran at least the Internet may be winning.
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EFF Updates app rejected by Apple
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Core Dump
Category: Apple and anything else
2009-06-03 18:42:22
What could be more innocuous than an iPhone app for reading a particular RSS feed? Yet Apple's managed to find fault.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Core Dump
Category: Apple and anything else
2009-06-03 18:42:22
What could be more innocuous than an iPhone app for reading a particular RSS feed? Yet Apple's managed to find fault.
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Let’s talk dirty: Discussion paper on R18+ games to be released
Written By: Mike Bantick
Section: Radioactive IT
Category: Gaming and Entertainment tech blog
2009-04-20 22:23:49
Finally there seems to be some movement on the long awaited public consultation discussion paper on mature interactive entertainment classification. But it is not coming from the Australian Attorneys-General.
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Written By: Mike Bantick
Section: Radioactive IT
Category: Gaming and Entertainment tech blog
2009-04-20 22:23:49
Finally there seems to be some movement on the long awaited public consultation discussion paper on mature interactive entertainment classification. But it is not coming from the Australian Attorneys-General.
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NecroVisioN banned
Written By: Mike Bantick
Section: Radioactive IT
Category: Gaming and Entertainment tech blog
2009-04-15 18:37:12
Another game release falls prey to Australia’s lack of an R18+ classification system. But mature age games should have no FEAR, most likely this decision on the horror/war FPS NecroVisioN will be turned around.
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Written By: Mike Bantick
Section: Radioactive IT
Category: Gaming and Entertainment tech blog
2009-04-15 18:37:12
Another game release falls prey to Australia’s lack of an R18+ classification system. But mature age games should have no FEAR, most likely this decision on the horror/war FPS NecroVisioN will be turned around.
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Conroy invokes Russian mob, human error and Moore's Law to support net filter
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles
Category: IT blog
2009-03-29 16:36:22
What do the Russian mob, human error and Moore's Law have in common? They were all invoked in the space of 30 minutes to support Communications Minister Senator Stephen Conroy's drive to impose a mandatory Internet filter at the ISP level on the Australian public.
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Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles
Category: IT blog
2009-03-29 16:36:22
What do the Russian mob, human error and Moore's Law have in common? They were all invoked in the space of 30 minutes to support Communications Minister Senator Stephen Conroy's drive to impose a mandatory Internet filter at the ISP level on the Australian public.
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Don't mention the filtering trial!
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2009-03-25 14:21:31
Communications minister Stephen Conroy, by his own admission can talk under wet cement, and it was a talent he demonstrated in spades when questioned about Internet filtering after opening Cisco's new customer briefing centre in Sydney yesterday.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2009-03-25 14:21:31
Communications minister Stephen Conroy, by his own admission can talk under wet cement, and it was a talent he demonstrated in spades when questioned about Internet filtering after opening Cisco's new customer briefing centre in Sydney yesterday.
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iiNet pulls out of "fundamentally flawed" filtering trial
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-03-22 20:58:18
The government's planned trial of ISP side Internet filtering has suffered a severe setback with one of Australia's largest ISPs, iiNet, backing out of an early offer to participate in the planned trials citing constant changes in the policy, confused explanations of the purpose of the trial and revelations regarding the supposed 'blacklist'.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-03-22 20:58:18
The government's planned trial of ISP side Internet filtering has suffered a severe setback with one of Australia's largest ISPs, iiNet, backing out of an early offer to participate in the planned trials citing constant changes in the policy, confused explanations of the purpose of the trial and revelations regarding the supposed 'blacklist'.
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Wikileaks threatens Conroy with criminal prosecution
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles
Category: IT blog
2009-03-20 00:10:14
Anti-censorship site Wikileaks has threatened Australian Communications Minister Senator Stephen Conroy with criminal prosecution if he attempts to discover the source of its leaked Australian Internet blacklist. Wikileaks says that under Swedish law it is a criminal offence to try to breach confidentiality agreements between the press and sources.
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Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles
Category: IT blog
2009-03-20 00:10:14
Anti-censorship site Wikileaks has threatened Australian Communications Minister Senator Stephen Conroy with criminal prosecution if he attempts to discover the source of its leaked Australian Internet blacklist. Wikileaks says that under Swedish law it is a criminal offence to try to breach confidentiality agreements between the press and sources.
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Conroy's climate of fear
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles
Category: IT blog
2009-03-19 09:07:49
I don't know about you but I'm old enough to remember a time when classic works of fiction such as D H Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover were banned from publication. After the permissive era of the late 1960s and 1970s, I never thought I would see those days return. I was wrong.
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Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles
Category: IT blog
2009-03-19 09:07:49
I don't know about you but I'm old enough to remember a time when classic works of fiction such as D H Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover were banned from publication. After the permissive era of the late 1960s and 1970s, I never thought I would see those days return. I was wrong.
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Maybe Atkinson is right about R18+ games
Written By: Mike Bantick
Section: Radioactive IT
Category: Gaming and Entertainment tech blog
2009-03-16 05:47:50
South Australian Attorney-General Michael Atkinson is a fan of keeping the ban on violent video games. He is the most vocal of the Attorneys-General in attempting to maintain the lack of an R18+ classification for interactive entertainment in Australia. Perhaps he has a point.
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Written By: Mike Bantick
Section: Radioactive IT
Category: Gaming and Entertainment tech blog
2009-03-16 05:47:50
South Australian Attorney-General Michael Atkinson is a fan of keeping the ban on violent video games. He is the most vocal of the Attorneys-General in attempting to maintain the lack of an R18+ classification for interactive entertainment in Australia. Perhaps he has a point.
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Fence sitting IIA refuses to speak out against Internet filtering
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles
Category: IT blog
2009-02-28 17:30:44
The Internet Industry Association, the peak body representing the major Internet players in Australia, including the ISPs, has once again refused to take a stand against the Australian Government's attack on Internet freedom. A question must now be raised over whose interests the IIA truly represents.
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Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles
Category: IT blog
2009-02-28 17:30:44
The Internet Industry Association, the peak body representing the major Internet players in Australia, including the ISPs, has once again refused to take a stand against the Australian Government's attack on Internet freedom. A question must now be raised over whose interests the IIA truly represents.
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