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  • Conroy filter gag sparks sysadmin rage

    An Australian systems administrators' professional group has criticised Communications Minister Stephen Conroy for alleged attempts by his office to silence a vocal network engineer expressing an opinion about the planned government internet filtering scheme.

  • Aussie Olympian blogs muzzled, not censored

    Australian athletes' blogs will not be censored during the Beijing Olympics, according to the Australian Olympic Committee president, but the International Olympic Committee is preventing them from profiting from the games' name.

  • Net censorship? AOL bans independent news source

    About 500 subscribers to US-based human rights watch Web site have had their paid subscription unceremoniously cancelled, after AOL placed a ban on all emails originating from the independent media source.

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