No Clean Feed: Stop Internet Censorship in Australia

by Erik Larson | November 29, 2008 at 12:34 pm

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No Clean Feed, a project of Electronic Frontiers Australia, is doing research and organizing public opposition to the "clean feed", the Australian federal government's plan to impose internet censorship. Info on the issues, reporting on what's known about the still-undisclosed details, with links for more; if you find any BS, please let me know- there's no time for BS in these trying times, imho- and no need to put up with it in the transparent and immediately interconnected world wide web.

Gotta love the crowd-powered new media; i found out about this from TruthAction.org. Posting this for the Web, the World and all my mates in Australia.

What is the 'Clean Feed'?
The Australian Federal Government is pushing forward with a plan to force Internet Service Providers [ISPs] to censor the Internet for all Australians. This plan will waste tens of millions of taxpayer dollars and slow down Internet access.

Despite being almost universally condemned by the public, ISPs, State Governments, Media and censorship experts, Communications Minister Stephen Conroy is determined to force this filter into your home.

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The Republocrats, big Telcos and Pentagon tried to get the 109th Congress to pass Net Neutrality-killing legislation in the US in 2006; they were overcome by People-power, organized on the web: SaveTheInternet.com

In Canada, Net Neutrality is also under attack, and a campaign to stop it is also under way- see this article on NowPublic, links for info and action: Canada Sleeps Through War to 'Save the Internet'

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Can you please help me in relation the censorship of the internet in ireland.

Eircom the main internet provider in Ireland has plans to curb peoples use and enjoyment of the internet by filtering all content on the internet. This non government controlled filtering of the internet is to stop the illegally uploading and downloading of copyrighted material. IRMA (Irish Recorded Music Association ) which is controlled by the main record labels (EMI, Sony, Universal and Warner) are to supply Eircom with the IP addresses of all people they detect illegally uploading or downloading copyrighted materials. If you are found to be illegally downloading copyrighted materials you can be disconnected from the internet.

The filtering of the internet and the treat of disconnection is serving a commercial interest group and is not to the benefit to the people of Ireland. We do not condone piracy but we should never have censorship, surveillance and treat of disconnection from the internet. The internet has become a main part of Modern life people use it everyday for doing business, communicating with friends buying and selling goods, reading the news as well as many other reasons. There is over a billion people in the world that use the internet and half the world have mobile phones to disconnect people from the internet is ending there freedom to work and communicate with the world. Censorship, surveillance and disconnection of the internet for the benefit of music industry is ridiculous. How can a democratic nation allow a private industry association to dictate what information their population can/cannot read. The future of the internet is at stake if we let censorship of the internet start now we can never stop it.

can you please help me make this be known to the public or give me advice in how i should launch a campaign to stop it at the moment i am sending this email and asking people to forward it toThe following email addresses the minister for communication the irish media and eircom (please help forward to the following and to your friends)

eamon.ryan@oireachtas.ie, customer.services@eircom.net, sales@eircom.net

eircomadvertising@eircom.net, newsonline@rte.ie, info@tv3.ie

Thanks

Ger

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Erik Larson

at 20:01 on November 29th, 2008

thanks moonwolf and everyone recommending this.

sara star, I agree it's censorship. It's being painted as protecting children, but the potential for abuse for political reasons when this kind of thing is allowed is there- parents can teach their kids, who will have to deal with the real world of globalization soon enough anyway, and do every day at school.

Cypresso, i wish your friends well- in the West we still have more freedom- i'm all for making it better for everyone everywhere. Net Neutrality, worldwide, imho- We the People power.

lefty_liberated

at 08:52 on December 25th, 2008

This is so strange this coming out AFTER they elect a more liberal leader.

ger egan (not verified)

at 12:11 on March 22nd, 2009

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