Australian schools are making efforts to address the problem of cyber bullying in information technology classes. The problem is reaching epidemic proportions among teens, and is related to social networking sites such as Bebo and Myspace. The schools are giving special ‘cyber citizenship’ classes as part of their technology course, and are based on a…
Readers from other countries may be wondering what the present brouhaha about internet access and pornography in Australia has to do with them. In one sense, not much! On a wider scale though, it has a great deal to do with them. What a government gets away with in one place will soon be copied…
Senator Stephen Conroy seems to think that anyone who disagrees with him thinks it does. And so do his lackeys! The fact is that ISP filters similar to the British system that Mr Conroy thinks so highly of slows performance by up to 78%! Add to this the cost of implementing the system, and you…
I wrote yesterday about Kevin Rudd’s Labor Government’s proposal to build the Great Firewall Of Australia (as named by Des Walsh), and its potential for misuse. I misnamed the post, and called it: ‘How To CensorThe Internet One Country At A Time’. As Des Walsh says, this isn’t an issue just for Australia, it is…
