Posted in Canada Border Services Agency, computers, porn on January 17, 2008 | No Comments »
Xtra West is Vancovuer’s Lesbian and Gay Biweekly free newspaper. Xtra West has been banned for free distribution at Granville Island and Fraser Valley public libraries, with the ban later rescinded at both Granville Island the the libraries . Here are some recent highlights from their website and print newspaper.
This is a [...]
Posted in Little Sister's, censorship, filtering, internet, porn, public library, violence on November 22, 2007 | 2 Comments »
The management team of the London Public Library recommended that adult workstations continue to be filtered with a commercial internet filter (Netsweeper). They had done a pilot project to see what patrons and staff thought of having many adult workstations filtered. Not children’s workstations, but adult ones.
I like that they are transparent in [...]
Posted in Canada Border Services Agency, censorship, government censorship, hate materials, porn on October 30, 2007 | No Comments »
Canada Border Services Agency sent out their quarterly list (19 page PDF) of items (CDs, newspapers, records, books, calenders, CD-ROMs, comic books, DVDs, DVD-Rs, magazines, pocket books, and video cassettes) that have been seized and reviewed by the Prohibited Importations Unit.
In the 19 page report there is half a page of items listed under hate [...]
Posted in CBC, filtering, porn on September 6, 2007 | No Comments »
i just caught the tail end of an interview on CBC radio’s Search Engine with Tom Wood, the 16 year old Australian who hacked the $84 million porn filter created by the Australian government in about 30 minutes.
download this episode, the interview with Tom is from 15:00 to 19:13.
this makes me laugh, even though i [...]
