Danny Yee

Internet Censorship & Civil Liberties in Australia

Australian Censorship

Book Reviews

Sense and Censorship (Australian history)

Secrets and Lies (Schneier)

Word Crimes (blasphemy in C19 Britain)
Giving Offense (essays by Coetzee)

More book reviews: civil liberties, the Internet.

 

News and Links

twitter now censored in Thailand - Guardian
do UK obscenity laws make sense? - Guardian
downloading for personal use is legal in Switzerland? - TorrentFreak
whenever I think Richard Stallman is paranoid, reality corrects me - EnGadget
"The Pirate Party was right on every detail" - the US has been dictating Swedish info-policy - FalkVinge
the new anti-porn movement - Meanjin

(For more links, see my blog Pathologically Polymathic.)

Join in the Debate

Censorship in Australia is discussed on the stop-censorship mailing list.

Other Sites

Along with the Electronic Frontiers Australia site, the best source for information on Internet censorship in Australia is Irene Graham's Liberty or Tyranny site; her The State of Censorship covers Australian censorship more generally.

For coverage of the current events in censorship and moral outrage, a good source is Somebody Think of the Children. Refused Classification tracks bans on films and games.

Rod Williams has useful information on Australian film censorship. For privacy, the Australian Privacy Foundation does good work.

Many items censored in Australia are available at Amazon.

I am a life member of
Electronic Frontiers Australia: Protecting and Promoting Civil
Liberties Online

Danny Yee