Friends Among Strangers; Try Your Luck at ChatRoulette
By Sam PascuaDo you recall the days before the Internet existed? When you may have spent a quality afternoon getting to know your next-door neighbours, rather than chatting with strangers or blogging the day away? Those days are long gone, and today there’s no shortage of social-media sites in which users can introduce themselves, their ideas and their thoughts to anyone who will listen, view or read. You can share whatever you like – within legal limits – with the rest of the world. Perhaps your ideas will be received, or perhaps they’ll be lost in cyberspace. With all the communication, you won’t ever know.
Client Focus: AMSF – Australian Motor Sport Foundation
By Sam PascuaWe are extremely pleased to announce the launch of a recent website – AMSF – Australian Motor Sport Foundation
Internet users support education over mandatory Internet filtering
By Sam PascuaAs previously mentioned Di is a big supporter of an Australian and World free net, with no government censorship. The percentages stated below are encouraging, however we need to push, hollow and shout as the Australian Government has proven to not stop because of negative survey results; they will attempt to ram the law through and then use spin to deal with the backlash.
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Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA) today welcomed the results of a recent survey that found Australian Internet users do not support the idea of mandatory Internet filtering.
The preliminary results of the Australian Broadband Survey 2009, conducted by Whirlpool (whirlpool.net.au), found that 91.8% respondents did not support the idea of mandatory Internet filtering.
Read moreTake a Stand Against Australian Censorship!
By Sam PascuaDon’t Allow the Australian Government to Limit Internet Usage
The Australian government recently announced plans to introduce Internet filters that will block access to various websites throughout our country. Which websites? Those that our government has deemed illegal, however arbitrary that designation may be. Such action is a blatant and unacceptable attempt to control the content that we Australians are able to view online legally.
All of us at Design Industries strongly oppose this censorship. We believe that each individual should have full freedom to browse the Internet and, in doing so, express free speech and encourage others to do so. We believe our fellow Australian citizens possess the integrity and personal responsibility to manage and control their own Internet usage and to monitor the Internet usage of their children – without government involvement or handholding.
Read moreWidespread opposition to the Government’s mandatory Internet filtering plan
By Sam PascuaThis article below is from the EFA which is an organisation that Di support in its attempt to stop the Rudd Government from censoring the net, it is the last free speech platform available and needs to be protected in order for all Australian citizens to have a free voice.
EFA welcomes widespread opposition to the Government’s mandatory Internet filtering plan
Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA) today welcomed the widespread opposition to the the Rudd Government’s mandatory Internet filtering plan.
“There are dozens of organisations and groups that are working against the Government’s plan to censor the Internet, highlighting the depth of community disagreement with the plan,” said Peter Black, EFA’s campaign manager.
EFA has launched a new website, OpenInternet.com.au, blog and Facebook fan page, to act as a campaign hub for these different groups.
Read moreGoogle expresses concern with the Government’s mandatory censorship
By Sam PascuaIn December we expressed our concern with the Government’s filtering proposal in this blog. Today we join the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA), which represents 12 million library users around Australia, Yahoo! and the Inspire Foundation in proposing some core principles for a Safer Internet. We also expand on our views in a submission to the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy.
Australians deserve an Open Internet
By Sam PascuaElectronic Frontiers Australia today launched a new campaign against the Rudd Government’s mandatory Internet filtering plan.
The Open Internet campaign emphasises that Australians want an Open Internet that is free from an impractical and costly policy of Government imposed mandatory Internet filtering.
“This policy has caused considerable anxiety amongst Australian Internet users,” said EFA Vice-Chair Colin Jacobs. “The idea that the Government will be inserting itself in every Internet connection in the country is a tough one to swallow, especially without a workable policy goal behind it.”
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