internet content filtering

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• NBN liked, ISP filter dogs Labor in election wake

  By Rodney Gedda | 23 August, 2010 11:23

  The National Broadband Network is likely to play a key role in the balance of power with the independents and Greens supportive of the project, however, mandatory Internet filtering remains a bugbear that many of the elected MPs continue to oppose.

• Comp-sci professionals voice opposition to Internet filter

  By Kathryn Edwards | 10 February, 2010 11:37

  A conglomerate of Australasian computer science academics has voiced opposition to the Federal Government’s plans to introduce mandatory ISP-level Internet content filtering.

• CyberSitter files lawsuit against China over Green Dam

  By Grant Gross | 06 January, 2010 08:06

  Web software filtering vendor CyberSitter has filed a US $2.2 billion lawsuit against the Chinese government, two Chinese software markers and seven major computer manufacturers for their distribution of Green Dam Youth Escort, a controversial Web filtering package the Chinese government had mandated to be installed on computers sold there.

• Calls for Conroy to release Internet censorship trial results

  By Kathryn Edwards | 02 September, 2009 12:19

  Opposition spokesperson, Nick Minchin, has bought the Government’s proposed Internet content filtering scheme back to the political forefront, criticising the Government over its lack of transparency regarding the trials.

• Australia's Internet filter ruled by a single bureaucrat

  By Darren Pauli | 18 March, 2009 12:02

  No accountability for blacklists, yet Watchdog's word is final.

• Strange bedfellows: Sex and IT unite to stop Net censorship

  By Rodney Gedda | 14 January, 2009 11:15

  Who would have thought the government's proposed Internet filtering scheme would bring together so many disparate groups all united in their opposition to mandatory censorship?

• Industry baffled over clean-feed internet pilot

  By Darren Pauli | 12 December, 2008 15:43

  Internet Service Providers (ISPs) participating in live trials of the national Internet content filtering scheme say the tests will be undermined by a government decision to test the “clean-feed” blacklist under watered-down conditions.

• Gen-Yers will use social networks to bypass Internet filter, critic says

  By Daniel Bishton | 26 November, 2008 09:33

  The federal government’s proposed ‘clean feed’ Internet censorship scheme does not account for trends in social networking communities and will easily be circumvented by savvy Gen-Yers, according to a prominent network engineer.

• Greens accuse Conroy of fudging facts over content filter trials

  By Howard Dahdah | 12 November, 2008 14:15

  Federal Communications minister Senator Stephen Conroy has dodged a question by the Greens, who claimed he said in an October Senate estimates hearing that countries such as Sweden and Canada had mandatory Internet filtering systems similar to those now being trialled in Australia, when in fact they don’t.

• No opt-out of filtered Internet

  By Darren Pauli | 13 October, 2008 16:10

  Australians will be unable to opt-out of the government's pending Internet content filtering scheme, and will instead be placed on a watered-down blacklist, experts say.