About Censorship

As you might expect there are many documents about online censorship available online. Here are some starting points:

Australian Government Inquiries:

• Bulletin Board Task Force Report
  http://www.dca.gov.au/bulletin_board/report.htm
• Consultation Paper
  http://www.dca.gov.au/paper_2.html
• Summary of inquiries
  http://acslink.net.au/~tomw/acsirg.html

NZ

• The Crimes and Technology Reform Bill and campaign against it
  ftp://netsoc.org.nz/pub/netsoc/

US

• Pending US legislation on children's access to information
  http://www.vtw.org/billwatch/issue.13.html
• The Exon Bill and the campaign against it
  
  • http://www.vtw.org/exon/
    
  • http://epic.org/
    
  • http://www.eff.org/pub/Alerts/
    
  • http://www.cdt.org/cda.html
    
  • http://outpost.callnet.com/outpost.html
    
  • ftp://ftp.cdt.org/pub/cdt/policy/freespeech/00-INDEX.FREESPEECH
    
  • ftp://ftp.eff.org/pub/Alerts/
    
  • gopher://gopher.panix.com/11/vtw/exon
    
  • gopher://gopher.eff.org/11/Alerts

UK

• Labour Party policy on freedom of speech
  http://www.poptel.org.uk/Labour-Party/execsumm.html

Background:

• Background on online censorship
  http://www.eff.org/pub/Censorship

Parental and Teacher Empowerment:

• Pamphlet on Child Safety on the Information Highway
  http://www.compuserve.com/isd/news_rel/chldsfty.html
• Management of student access to controversial material
  http://teloz.latrobe.edu.au/circit/schome.html

Third Party Rating Systems and Filter Software

• Cybersitter
  http://www.rain.org/~solidoak/
  mailto:info@solidoak.com
• Internet Filter
  http://www.xmission.com/~seer/jdksoftware/
  mailto:bturner@direct.ca
• Net Nanny
  http://giant.mindlink.net/netnanny/
  mailto:netnanny@netnanny.com
• Netscape proxy server
  http://www.netscape.com/
  mailto:info@netscape.com
• SurfWatch
  http://www.surfwatch.com
  mailto:info@surfwatch.com
• Webtrack
  http://www.webster.com/
  mailto:info@webster.com

Organisations

• Electronic Frontiers Australia
  ftp://ftp.efa.org.au/efa/
  http://www.efa.org.au/EFA/
  mailto:efa-info@efa.org.au
• Australian Computer Society
  http://www.acs.org.au/
• Electronic Frontier Foundation
  http://www.eff.org/
  mailto:info@eff.org
• Network Society of New Zealand
  ftp://netsoc.org.nz/pub/netsoc/
  http://iconz.co.nz/nsnz/

An expended version of this list is available at:

• http://www.efa.org.au/EFA/about_censorship.html