The Open Society Institute, a Soros Foundations initiative, will discuss The Future of Freedom and Control in the Internet Age in a live webcast focusing on Chinese and Russian web control, from 10am-11.30am Sydney time on Wednesday 11 Feb 09. Register… more »

The basis of the pro-campaign to censor the internet is a left-field, 2003 academic report and 35 petitions, which are actually just two separate petition statements, copied, and with different signatories. But Communications Minister Stephen Conroy, an… more »

The USA has taken nearly 10 years to decide, with a final ruling by the US Supreme Court, that mandatory internet filtering does not meet that nation's constitutional protections. Here, the New York Times explains in an editorial why the result is the ri… more »

The Supreme Court has ruled that a US law aimed at shielding children from pornography online violates the constitutional right to free speech. The American ruling is a severe embarrassment to Australian Communications Minister Stephen Conroy, who is… more »

Communications Minister Stephen Conroy responds to email complaints with a long letter that avoids the issues: he doesn't explain why the government now plans to filter all adults' internet access (instead of filtering children's access, as promised pre-… more »