I recently posted a list of top 10 people Senator Conroy would hate if he was listening and was amazed by the response it received. Indeed, there were unsung heroes that needed to be announced, nay, trumpeted to the masses. These masses must now be made aware of the encroaching threat to their freedom of speech.
Unlike our parliament, however, our heroes combine style with substance. It is that substance that I aim to collate here and focus, not only for those that wish to know everything about the censorwall, but also for those that want the kernel of truth in the ‘NoCleanFeed’ issue.
5: Websinthe Del.icio.us link list.
This is a growing list of everything ever written about Conroy’s ISP censorship plans and the online #NoCleanFeed movement. Because it is hosted on del.icio.us, it is easily usable, sortable, tagged and you can be automatically alerted about updates. Ideal for social network types and people that frequently use the Internet.
This site has what is currently the most comprehensive list of articles, blog posts, polls, videos and groups regarding the issue. The list is set up as a wiki document and so can be added to and edited by users subject to future editing by other users.
3: Whirlpool community guide to ISP filtering
While perhaps not as comprehensive as the OCAU list, this guide is certainly more action focused and is more likely to lead to results. It still has a very comprehensive list of mainstream media articles but also contains letter templates and various other resources for actual change. It is also slightly more succinct.
2: Libertus
Libertus.net, maintained by veteran free-speech campaigner Irene Graham, is the most mature, well researched and trustworthy source of quotable, academic level discourse on the subject of censorship in Australia. No other source comes close for use by journalists and academics but it remains useful to lay-people due to Irene’s exquisite writing. Her article on Statistics laundering (not nearly as boring as it sounds) is required reading for anyone wishing to take themselves seriously in this issue.
1: Mark Newton’s reply to the governmental form letter.
Since Senator Conroy’s office tried to have Mark Newton silenced for speaking out against the incompetence shown by the DBCDE during the original filter trials, two things have been true: Mark Newton has lead the fight against this idiotic scheme and, importantly, the entire Labor party has been ignoring constituant’s correspondence and, at most, replying with a pro-forma letter that has time and time again been debunked, disproved and found to contain outright lies by Conroy’s office.
In the end, the government has been shown that their policy is a bad idea and will not accomplish anything positive at all.
Mark has written a pro-forma of his own and released it into the public domain. This letter is number one on this list as it contains absolutely everything that is wrong about the government’s stance and gives factual evidence and sound references to support itself.
Special thanks to Jasmine Marosvary in inspiring this article.
