AnonSA does not endorse or support the recent attempts by Anonymous hackers to attack government websites. We are a peaceful protest group. While we agree that the government’s proposed internet censorship legislation is an ill-conceived idea, we do not condone the methods taken by the individuals responsible for the DDoS attacks as an appropriate way to engage with the government.

Please refer to the post below regarding Operation Didgeridie for the methods we do encourage.

EDIT: Also, check out Stilgherrian’s Patch Monday (15/2/2010) podcast in which AnonSA features :)

Tags: censorship,Government,Hactivism,internet filter,Operation Didgeridie,Operation Titstorm,Patch Monday,podcast,statement,Stilgherrian
Categories: Media
No Comments »

On 9/9/9, Anonymous internationally announced a “war” on the Australian Government over the proposed Internet Censorship plans spearheaded by Senator Stephen Conroy.

This was announced via an Internet Video on YouTube

Part of the actions proposed in this war includes a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack against Australian Government websites.

This has been reported at the Herald Sun.

ANONSA WOULD LIKE TO MAKE IT CLEAR THAT WE DO NOT SUPPORT THE DDOS OR ANY OTHER ILLEGAL ACTIONS.

As we always have, We do NOT support or condone any illegal activities against the Australian Government (or the Church of Scientology). We encourage peaceful, legal action only.

We would like to encourage Anonymous and members of the Australian Public to take action against the Australian Government—peacefully and legally. You do not need to identify as “Anonymous” or wear the Guy Fawkes mask to participate.

We are looking for as many people as possible to:

1. Send a letter to your Minister about the Proposed Internet Censorship
2. Send a letter to Senator Stephen Conroy.
3. Talk to everyone about Internet Censorship. Put it on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, forums, talk to your friends, your family, and your cat.
4. Make posters (and share them here) and put them on Community Noticeboards or anywhere you can get attention
5. Phone Senator Stephen Conroy’s office about the Censorship
6. Phone your Minister about the Censorship
7. Send faxes to Ministers about the Censorship
8. Phone talk-back radio about the Censorship
9. Contact local television stations about the Censorship
10. Write letters to the Editor of your local Newspaper about the Censorship…

In short, tell as many people as many ways as possible about the Censorship.

Finally, we hope to arrange a protest against the Internet Censorship—not as Anonymous, but as Australian Citizens. Perhaps there will be more information on this later.

And again, we do NOT support the DDoS!

Update:

REALLY good commentary here regarding the attack, better than any of the stories.

Somebody think of the children

Further media reports here, mostly copypasta from the herald:

Adelaide Now

The Australian

WA Today

Livenews

The Age

Sky News

Sydney Morning Herald

Tags: censorship,DDoS,Government,internet filter
Categories: Media
1 Comment »

While this isn’t technically Chanology related, I feel that this is a subject that hits very close to home for Anons.

We need to save the internet from Conroy, and the Governments proposed Internet Filter.

To quote the South Australian Facebook Event:

The Australian Federal Government is pushing forward with a plan to force Internet Service Providers [ISPs] to censor the Internet for all Australians. This plan will waste tens of millions of taxpayer dollars and slow down Internet access.

Despite being almost universally condemned by the public, ISPs, State Governments, Media and censorship experts, Communications Minister Stephen Conroy is determined to force this filter into your home.

What is the Government’s plan?

Although the final details of the filtering plans have been kept under wraps, the Minister is on record as being firmly committed to a mandatory clean-feed internet to Australian homes, schools and public computers. A trial of filtering software by the ACMA has already been performed, with a “live” field pilot to follow later this year. We must act fast before millions of dollars are squandered on this technically impractical and democratically unworkable solution in search of a problem.
What do we know so far?

• Filtering will be mandatory in all homes and schools across the country.
• The clean feed will censor material that is “harmful and inappropriate” for children.
• The filter will require a massive expansion of the ACMA’s blacklist of prohibited content.
• The Government wants to use dynamic filters of questionable accuracy that slow the internet down by an average of 30%.
• The filtering will target legal as well as illegal material.
• $44m has been budgeted for the implementation of this scheme so far.
• The clean-feed for children will be opt-out, but a second filter will be mandatory for all Internet users.
• A live pilot deployment is going ahead in the near future.

What we don’t know is just as important.

• What age level is the country’s Internet to be made appropriate for? 15? 10? 5 years old?
• Who decides what material is “appropriate” for Australians to see?
• How are lists of “illegal” material compiled?
• Who will maintain the blacklist of prohibited sites?
• How can sites mistakenly added to the list be removed?

All of us want to see children protected from content that could be disturbing or harmful. The clean-feed filter is not a good way to go about this, and could actually reduce the safety of children online.

There is a Nationwide protest for against the filter that will be occuring in South Australia on Saturday December 13th from 12 noon to 4 pm at the steps of Parliment House.

Please RSVP to the Facebook Event and invite all your friends along.

Tags: censorship,filtering,ISP,Stephen Conroy
Categories: May 10th Protest
1 Comment »