Binary Gamer | Digital Gaming Reborn

Our good old friend, the always excellent Senator Conroy and his bodacious team at the Aussie government have really outdone themselves.  Conroys wacky magical internet Cleanfeed filter has another country selectable mode which can block “Downloadable” game content if it does not fit into our old MA game rating system.  In fact  the filter is [...]

This has created a big stir on the internet, the real ACMA Blacklist “CleanFeed” has been released making a mockery of the wikileaks attempt at fooling the general public.
The Usenet group alt.binaries.conroy has been flooded with various files in the past 24 hours with the updated blacklist amongst other intriguing and extremely disturbing documents.  I [...]

ACMA’s secret list of banned web pages has reportedly been leaked to Wikileaks.org although it appears the method to derive this list is not as sinister as the mainstream media has made out.  The original leaked list appeared to be 2 years old, full of dead urls and with a couple of new URLs tacked [...]

Netspace have released the final survey results I mentioned in our Clean Fead article with almost 10,000 people responding.  Customers were asked about the Federal Government’s intentions regarding Mandatory Internet Filtering:

As expected, the results are overwhelmingly against such filtering.  Check out the full results of the survey: Netspace Australian Filtering Results.

What is Cleenfeed?
Clean-feed is the Australian government’s $70 million national Internet content filtering scheme, which will impose blanket filtering for all web connections at the Internet Service Provider (ISP) level.  There are two lists, a ‘child’ safe list which filters both illegal content and hardcore pornography and a second which users can ‘opt-out’ to which [...]