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Recently there has being a rather large movement of people towards spreading the information about what I think should be known to everyone who has an internet connection in Australia. If nothing is done, the Australian Government will implement a nation wide internet filter. With the “save the children” ploy and being targeted at the ignorant masses, this can have a devastating effect on the quality of the Internet in Australia and freedom of information available to people. This filter not only has shown to be ineffective in trials, it will also slow down the internet by around 70%. The “black list” wont be available to the public, and there is no known reason or why a web site can make it to the list, other then the fact it is not deemed suitable for Australian viewing. There was a black list leaked which contains several harmless sites including a Brisbane dentist and a school canteen along with several youtube videos.

We are staging a city protest tomorrow, at 10AM outside the Casino! Please come along and check it out and bring your friends! Spread the word. There will also be another protest in March.

This really isn’t a step in the right direction for any freedom of information/speech! So take a stand, and help spread the word. If nothing is done, within two years this filter will take place without any vote or consent from the Australian people. Bellow is a video from the website containing information about “Project Freeweb”.

Project Freeweb – For the Freedom of the Internet from Anon VonAnon on Vimeo.

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The last entry I’ll write about in my web privacy effort is worth mentioning I think, Suicide Machine provides facility to totally obliterate your Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and LinkedIn (never used that one) accounts by killing all your virtual friends and eventually, yourself. So if you are serious about removing your internet identity and starting fresh, then this is certainly the way! I enjoyed the humor elements to it too!

So I have my tweets destroyed, Facebook deleted (well, after two weeks of not logging in, everything will be removed) and the MySpace totally gone. Once the Facebook two week grade period is over, I’ll make another one, but just for the purpose for people to contact me and redirect to this site. So from now on! Sensible tweets and facebooking, kthx sirs.

On my Internet privacy binge, I’ve come across something interesting called Google Dashboard. Logging into this will reveal to you what information under your Google account is kept, and where! Interesting to see the results.

There is also a section which shows everything you’ve searched for on Google, with dates and times… I suggest to turn this ‘feature’ off by pausing web history! Be aware though, that none of this will apply to you if you don’t have a Google account, or surf the internet with your Google account logged in!

I knew it’d happen sometime, so I guess now is the time. Facebook was exciting to get in touch with friends you lost over the years, but there is a point where it turns into a privacy concern. MySpace as well, totally toasted !!! I may as well blast all my tweets and start afresh too! Also a note with the twitter thing, if you have one it’s best set to private I say. I found some sites on google that collate and cache your tweets and put them on their own site. Rather rude considering the Twitter user agreement claims all tweets belong to the author.

What Facebook doesn’t seem to publicise too much is the fact you can delete your account, and remove everything on there. Surely that beats the deactivation if you want to leave the thing for good. Check out this URL for more info http://www.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=delete_account !

The only other social network / thing I can think of that I am still apart of is the Deviant Art. But I never check that, or go there… and personally I’d rather have that preserved as internet (embarrassing too) memories! Oh god how annoying I was !!! (And probably still am LOL). So to recap, totally destroying my internet identity as an attempt to regain control over what Google (and anyone looking) knows about me.

In other news, I am really getting involved with 3D Game Development for a Uni project, as well as working on some side project(s). Stay tuned!