14 Jul 2009 | Index Index, minipost
Qantas airline has put a halt on online activist group GetUp’s latest anti-censorship campaign, refusing to run the “Censordyne” advert, which criticises the Australian government’s forthcoming Internet filtering scheme, on its flights. The group had planned to run the parody advert on all domestic flights into Canberra next month to ensure it was seen by politicians around the first sitting week of parliament. Read more here
2 Jul 2009 | Index Index, minipost
China’s controversial plan to install Green Dam internet filtering software on all computers will go ahead despite previous postponements, a government official told state media today saying it was only “a matter of time” until the software was installed. Meanwhile the Telepragh has reported that Green Dam has already been downloaded three million times since the end of March and has been installed on 518,000 computers. Read more here
23 Jun 2009 | Digital Freedom, Index Index, minipost
China has confirmed it will continue with plans to force every computer in the country to run controversial filtering program Green Dam. The move follows news that Google have agreed to filter search results in China to screen out pornographic or explicit material. In a Twitter posting, prominent blogger Ai Weiwei appealed for an Internet boycott on the softwares launch in July, the same day of the anniversary to mark founding of the Chinese Communist Party. Read more here
22 Jun 2009 | Index Index, minipost
A Social Democrat member of the Reichstag has moved to the Pirate Party in a protest against web censorship legislation, becoming the party’s first MP in the process. Read more here
