Opposition spokesperson, Nick Minchin, says the results of the Government's mandatory Internet censorship trial are overdue and has renewed calls for the Government to scrap its plans
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.
Government uses both blunt and surgical tools to stifle dissidents, hacker says
One month after a disputed presidential election sparked widespread unrest in Iran, the country's government has initiated a cyber-crackdown that is challenging hackers across the globe to find new ways to help keep Iranian dissidents connected to the Web.
Google disbled Google Suggest features on Google.cn and made several other changes to block smut
Google engineers have put in place several measures to remove pornography from search results in China, after the government warned the company its filter was too weak.
The long road to banning 'unsavoury' websites
Does the Australian community need protecting from the worst the Web has to offer? The government appears to think so. Here's short guide to the rocky road to internet filtering in Australia.
Site owner says search for porn is unfounded
The owner of whistleblower Web site wikileaks has been raided by German police days after it controversially published the Australian government's Internet blacklists.
Conroy says latest leak “close” to the real list.
Further leakages of the government's Web site blacklist will not affect plans to deploy a national Internet content filter, according to Communications Minister Stephen Conroy.
iiNet's withdrawal and criticism does not deter remaining participants from the internet filter scheme
The remaining ISPs participating in the Federal Government’s Internet filtering trial have declared their continuing support for the controversial scheme.
CEO furious, tens of millions at risk.
Betfair CEO Andrew Twaits is outraged the multi-billion dollar company has been blacklisted under the government Internet content filters, a move set to annex tens of millions of dollars in local revenue.
No accountability for blacklists, yet Watchdog's word is final
No accountability for blacklists, yet Watchdog's word is final.
Technology concerns a “storm in a teacup”
Internet Service Providers (ISPs) participating in the government's clean-feed Internet pilot have supported the scheme and poured cold water on claims the technology will not work.
With the government spending millions on an impossible Internet filter, even the sex and IT industries agree its a bad idea
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?
Clean feed bit torrent a pain for business.
A federal government move to stamp-out illegal file sharing via the national Internet content filtering scheme will be impossible, experts say, without blanket ban on peer-to-peer traffic.
Armchair activists hit the streets across capital cities to rally against national Internet content filtering.
Protesters held rallies across Australian capital cities today to oppose the government's national clean feed Internet scheme, which will impose blanket content filtering for all web connections
Filtering the net akin to boiling the ocean: Telstra
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.
Amid the media panic, the doomsayers' cries and the sense of foreboding that has gripped all those who have had some contact with the unwinding censorship debate, we seem to have missed one thing.