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• When Christmas Spirit Calls

  
  Shelby Dupree, ex-law student who hasn't given up, and soon to be published author. — Authority: 126
  If you read nothing else this morning.. let it be this . Its a link to an article in Parade Magazine today written by Pat Conroy about his ghosts of Christmas past. Pat Conroy is a man who makes love to life and words and ... the spirit of love. His novels are good - his memoirs and remembrances are so ...
  15 hours ago

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  The Orstrahyun — Authority: 474
  Anti-Censorship Censored By Darryl Mason Heres the front page text from the anti-RuddNet censorship protest site, www.stephenconroy.com.au, which was pulled offline on Friday afternoon : stephenconroy.com.au - Minister For Fascism "The interesting part of this is that it shows that the Minister for ...
  1 day ago

• Telstra, Australia lay groundwork for proposed broadband plan

  
  Telecom Industry News — Authority: 143
  Telstra and the Australian government appear to be closer to defining what the incumbent phone companys role will be in the proposed Next Generation Broadband Network (NBN).    Right now, Telstra and the government continue to discuss how the incumbent carrier could spin off its wireline network facilities and ...
  1 day ago

• What does The Australian think about business regulation costs?

  
  Pollytics — Authority: 513
  What does The Australian think about business regulation costs? Would they believe, perhaps: Small businesses are unhappy at the time and expense in maintaining inflexible award conditions. Tough Nope. That would be ridiculous. What about: Australian companies are unhappy at the time and expense in maintaining ...
  2 days ago

• Broncos banged up on both sides of the ball (AP)

  
  Relevant News — Authority: 178
  AP - The Denver Broncos are banged up in both their offensive and defensive backfields as they prepare to face the Oakland Raiders on Sunday.
  2 days ago

• Victorian VIP: Mark Strong

  
  Movie Mom — Authority: 506
  Ive been listening to a lot of carriage wheels on cobblestones lately, with three films set in Victorian London. And two of them feature one of my favorite actors, Mark Strong. You may not recognize his name. You may not even recognize his face because he appears different in every film. Thats not make-up; its ...
  2 days ago

• Australian Government to censor the Internet

  
  The RiotACT — Authority: 146
  I know this isn’t strictly an ACT issue, [Ed dont worry, were very much against it here in the Riot bunker as seen here, here and here] but this is something that I believe is still relevant to RiotACT readers as it is something that will affect all Australians, i just want to bring awareness [...]
  3 days ago

• Internet filtering: Google says no

  
  TECHGEEK.com.au — Authority: 133
  Google has today written a scathing blog post on the Australian Government’s plan on bringing mandatory ISP level filtering to millions of internet users in Australia, citing a report by three professors that found a wide scope of content that could be blocked under “Refused Classification”. The report claims ...
  3 days ago

• Outrage over Oz govt’s plans to hand control of internet to moral minority

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  Canberra, Dec. 16 (ANI): Australian internet users and industries have expressed outrage over the federal government’s controversial plan to firewall the country’s internet, saying that filtering will hand the control of the internet to the moral minority.Critics claimed that ISP filter’s introduction will ...
  3 days ago

• Australian Internet Censorship: No Thanks.

  
  Tama Leaver dot Net — Authority: 461
  Earlier today I was interviewed by Damien Smith on RTR FM’s morning magazine talking about the Australian Federal Government’s plan to introduce national internet censorship .  As you might imagine, I’m not a fan of the plan, and think its the thin edge of a very large, potentially very conservative and ...
  3 days ago

• Australian Internet Censorship Given the Go Ahead – But What’s the Alternative?

  
  The Next Web — Authority: 742
  Australian Minister for Communications, Senator Stephen Conroy, has announced  the Government have completed their controversial Internet Filtering/Censorship trial, dubbed the “Cleanfeed”, and now plan to roll it out across all Internet users in Australia. The Cleanfeed first came to prominence in late 2008 ...
  3 days ago

• How the Internet filtering trial works and fails (via my brother)

  
  marcus westbury — Authority: 408
  I’ve been tyring to get my head around the results of the Federal Government’s internet filtering trial. Rather than undertake hours of laborious research off my own bat i decided to consult the resource that all people i know turn to when stuck with a technical question: my brother Stuart. His assesment: Here ...
  4 days ago

• Telstra, Optus And Primus All Announce Support For Conroy’s Filter

  
  autotechie.com — Authority: 159
  After yesterday’s announcement that Conroy’s internet filter trials were a rousing success weren’t a failure , Telstra, Optus and Primus have all publicly announced their support for the policy. (more…) Here is the original post:  Telstra, Optus And Primus All Announce Support For Conroy’s Filter
  4 days ago

• Duncan Yo-Yo: Strings Attached

  
  Play Stuff Blog — Authority: 109
  There’s something liberating about the yo-yo . I keep one on my desk for emergencies—like when a balky sentence has me hanging. You’d be surprised at how a twisted paragraph will straighten out and fly right after a few tosses of a yo-yo. In his superb novel, Stop Time , Frank Conroy wrote, “To yo-yo you ...
  4 days ago

• Wowsers are Winning

  
  skepticlawyer — Authority: 516
  Here at Skepticlawyer we’re shocked to see that the wowsers have apparently won the battle over compulsory internet censorship. The Age reports : The Federal Government has announced it will proceed with controversial plans to censor the internet after Government-commissioned trials found filtering a blacklist ...
  4 days ago

• Wowsers are Winning

  
  skepticlawyer — Authority: 516
  Here at Skepticlawyer we’re shocked to see that the wowsers have apparently won the battle over compulsory internet censorship. The Age reports : The Federal Government has announced it will proceed with controversial plans to censor the internet after Government-commissioned trials found filtering a blacklist ...
  4 days ago

• Wowsers are Winning

  
  skepticlawyer — Authority: 516
  Here at Skepticlawyer we’re shocked to see that the wowsers have apparently won the battle over compulsory internet censorship. The Age reports : The Federal Government has announced it will proceed with controversial plans to censor the internet after Government-commissioned trials found filtering a blacklist ...
  4 days ago

• Australia Confirms Censorship Plans, Tells Fibs On The Filtering Trial

  
  The Inquisitr Entertainment — Authority: 702
  The Australian Government today confirmed that it would proceed with broadscale internet censorship in Australia following a trial into ISP based internet filtering. Delivered pre-Christmas so as to minimize debate on the plan, Reichsminister for censorship Stephen Conroy spun the decision by selectively quoting ...
  4 days ago

• Internet blackout to protest Australian Internet filtering

  
  Be the signal — Authority: 99
  Please, black out your website and online profile images in protest against the Australian Government’s Internet Filtering policy. Why? It may seem cheesy to turn your website or avatar black for an online protest, but it can form a part of a good online and offline campaign, particularly for Internet-related ...
  4 days ago

• Talking Australia’s new Internet censorship policy on 6PR

  
  Stilgherrian — Authority: 120
  Yes, Australia will have a mandatory ISP-level Internet censorship system. It was announced earlier today by Senator Stephen Conroy, the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy when he released the final report of the recent filtering trials. According to the ABC News report , legislation ...
  4 days ago

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