Australia/New Zealand
Regional Overview: Australia and New Zealand
Note: a previous version of this profile is available at Australia and New Zealand, 2006-2007.
Introduction
Australia maintains some of the most restrictive Internet policies of any Western country and over the past two years has taken steps toward a nationwide mandatory Internet...
- Posted on 22/Dec/2010; tagged in Australia/New Zealand
ONI Blog: Anonymous' attack on Syrian Defense Ministry website: A window into the group's changing agenda?
Early this week, the online hacking community Anonymous launched a cyber attack on the Syrian Ministry of Defense website. This attack is one of the latest in a series of attacks by Anonymous/LulzSec against governments and companies perceived to be engaging...
- Posted on 10/Aug/2011; tagged in Asia, Australia/New Zealand, Defamation, Europe, Human rights, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Surveillance, Take-down, United States/Canada
ONI Blog: Threats to the Open Net: July 8th, 2011
Every week, the OpenNet Initiative provides a weekly news roundup (dubbed "Threats to the Open Net") in addition to our usual in-depth blog posts. If you would like to subscribe to the RSS feed for our newsreel, our entire blog,...
- Posted on 08/Jul/2011; tagged in Asia, Australia, Australia/New Zealand, China, Human rights, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Search result removal, Sub-Saharan Africa, Threats to the Open Net
ONI Blog: Australian Filtering Goes Live, "Trivial" to Bypass
Last week, our friends over at Herdict reported on the proposed ISP-level censorship in Australia. The plan, released by Telstra and Optus (two major ISPs), aims to protect Australian citizens by blocking child pornography and child exploitation sites...
- Posted on 06/Jul/2011; tagged in Australia, Australia/New Zealand, Circumvention, Voluntary filtering
ONI Blog: ONI Releases 2010 Year in Review
The OpenNet Initiative is proud to announce the release of its 2010 Year in Review, a collection of the year's top instances of filtering, surveillance, and information warfare around the globe.
Among the year's most well-known events are the banning of Blackberry...
- Posted on 18/Mar/2011; tagged in Afghanistan, Arrests and legal action, Asia, Australia, Australia/New Zealand, Bahrain, Bangladesh, China, Circumvention, Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Conflict and security filtering, Copyright, Cuba, Elections, Europe, Filtering tech and software, Human rights, India, Indonesia, IP blocking, Iran, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kyrgyzstan, Latin America, Lebanon, Legislation, Mexico, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Nigeria, ONI, Pakistan, Political filtering, Rwanda, Social filtering, South Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Syria, Take-down, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States of America, United States/Canada, Venezuela, Vietnam, Yemen
ONI Blog: McDonald's Blocks Gay Websites in New Zealand
News sources in New Zealand have reported that McDonald's may be actively censoring gay and lesbian online content in the country. The fast food chain's Wi-Fi network has come under attack from New Zealand's gay community for its apparent blocking...
- Posted on 17/Jan/2011; tagged in Australia/New Zealand, Data retention, New Zealand, Obscenity, Social filtering, Take-down
Report: Internet Filtering in Australia and New Zealand in 2006-2007
Note: a newer version of this profile is available at Regional Overview: Australia and New Zealand.
Introduction
Australia maintains some of the most restrictive Internet policies of any Western nation, while its neighbor, New Zealand, is less rigorous in its Internet regulation. Without...
- Posted on 22/Dec/2010; tagged in Australia/New Zealand, Publications
ONI Blog: Australian Prime Minister Backs Web Filtering
The AFP recently reported that Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has begun actively pushing to filter Australia’s Internet content. According to news sources, the filter would block websites that contain rape, bestiality, and child sex abuse. Included in the plan...
- Posted on 28/Oct/2010; tagged in Australia, Australia/New Zealand, Filtering tech and software, Legislation, Surveillance
ONI Blog: Would Censoring the Internet Prevent Cyber-Bullying?
Playing out in the Internet tabloids this week is the story of Jessi Slaughter, an eleven-year-old girl whose YouTube rants have resulted in death threats and unsavory rumors in a classic case of cyber-bullying.
In Australia, where a proposal to filter the...
- Posted on 20/Jul/2010; tagged in Australia, Australia/New Zealand, Cybercrime and security, Defamation, Filtering tech and software, Hate speech, Obscenity, Social filtering, United States of America, United States/Canada
ONI Blog: Is Blocking RapeLay the Solution?
Controversy is brewing over a Japanese video game called RapeLay which, according to Australia's Sydney Morning Herald, allows users to "earn points for acts of sexual violence, including following girls on commuter trains, raping virgins and their mothers, and then forcing...
- Posted on 02/Apr/2010; tagged in Asia, Australia, Australia/New Zealand, Japan, Search result removal, Social filtering, United States of America, United States/Canada
