Obscenity

ONI Blog: Australian Goverment Releases Paper Detailing Filtering Pilot

Ban.This.URL, a blog documenting and examining online censorship in Australia, reports that Australia's The Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy (DBCDE) has released a paper detailing the technical specifications of Australia's proposed Internet filtering plan. In the paper...

- Posted on 17/Dec/2008; tagged in Australia, Australia/New Zealand, Obscenity, Social filtering, Overblocking

ONI Blog: IWF Removes Wikipedia Blacklisting in UK

Shortly after we blogged about the blocking of the Wikipedia page for heavy metal band Scorpions' album "Virgin Killer," it was announced that the England-based Internet Watch Foundation had removed the Wikipedia page from their child pornography watchlist. An unfortunate side-effect...

- Posted on 09/Dec/2008; tagged in United Kingdom, Europe, Obscenity, Social filtering

ONI Blog: UK Blocks Access to Wikipedia Entry on Controversial Scorpions Album

On Monday, December 8, it was reported that a number of UK Internet service providers have decided to block access to a controversial Wikipedia entry showing an image of a naked girl. The ISPs acted after online watchdog the Internet...

- Posted on 09/Dec/2008; tagged in United Kingdom, Europe, Obscenity, Social filtering, Overblocking

ONI Blog: Can The Government Censor Wireless Broadband?

Free wireless broadband has been a goal of academics, activists, and politicians for years, and M2Z, a new start-up led by former FCC official John Muleta might give it to them. Unfortunately, it will not be the broadband...

- Posted on 30/Jun/2008; tagged in United States of America, United States/Canada, Arrests and legal action, Obscenity