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Category Archives: Censorship

Censorship and the DIA filter

17-Feb-10

The NZ Department of Internal Affairs is launching a web filter to block child abuse images (CAI)/child pornography(CP) (See my thoughts on terminology) in March, according to ZDNet. As part of the structure, there will be an Independent Reference Group that will have oversight of the process and be a point of review for complaints against the filter and its operation.

I am part of the Independent Reference Group, mainly because I don’t believe the filter will work, and because I am implacably opposed to any extension of it.

The Great Internet Filtering Debacle

24-Mar-09

One of the fraught issues, when looking at censorship, is child abuse images (CAI), also known as “child pornography” (note that I disdain the use of “kiddie porn” as it diminishes the importance of the issue). Anyone with children feels this one in the gut, that it could be their child being abused but for [...]