• Mandatory ISP filter still on the agenda: Gillard

  By Tim Lohman | 07 January, 2011 10:34

  The Federal Government’s mandatory internet service provider (ISP) level filter is still on the agenda, according to the Prime Minister, Julia Gillard.

• Internet filter is right: Gillard

  By AAP | 12 October, 2010 21:48

  Prime Minister Julia Gillard isn't budging on dropping the unpopular internet filter, saying it is a moral judgment the government needs to make.

• Internode, iiNet, VHA won't filter for now

  By Renai LeMay | 12 July, 2010 15:39

  National broadband provider Internode this afternoon stated that -- unlike Telstra, Optus and Primus -- it would not voluntarily filter its customers' internet for websites that are known to contain child pornography and child abuse material, while iiNet said it would wait to see the detail in the proposal and VHA is awaiting a code for the mobile industry.

• Internet filter delayed for a year (updated)

  By Renai LeMay | 09 July, 2010 11:32

  Communications Minister Stephen Conroy this morning announced a number of wide-ranging modifications to the Government's controversial mandatory internet filtering policy, including a delay of at least a year to the project while the state and Federal governments review the Refused Classification category of content which the filter would block.

• Australian parliament Web site attacked

  By Grant Gross | 11 February, 2010 05:32

  The Australian Parliament's Web site was hit by an apparent denial-of-service attack Wednesday, two days after the hacking group Anonymous threatened attacks over the government's plan to filter Web content.

• Bing filters out sensitive results for Chinese searches

  By Owen Fletcher | 25 June, 2009 20:30

  Microsoft's Bing search engine filters out some sensitive results from searches made in simplified Chinese, the script used to write the language in China, searches revealed Thursday.

• China's porn filter blocks Falun Gong sites

  By Owen Fletcher | 12 June, 2009 16:54

  Internet filtering software that China plans to distribute nationwide blocks content related to a spiritual movement banned in China, despite government claims that the software targets only porn.

Whitepapers about internet filtering

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