internet content filtering

  • Calls for Conroy to release Internet censorship trial results 02/09/2009 12:19:00

    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.
  • Five technologies Iran is using to censor the Web 21/07/2009 10:51:00

    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 censors China porn searches 23/06/2009 21:34:00

    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 content filtering story 30/03/2009 16:02:00

    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.
  • Wikileaks raided by German police 25/03/2009 17:00:00

    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.
  • Govt undeterred by blacklist leaks 25/03/2009 13:29:00

    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.
  • ISPs show support for Internet filter trial 24/03/2009 10:24:00

    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.
  • Betfair banned by ACMA 19/03/2009 13:30:00

    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.
  • Australia's Internet filter ruled by a single bureaucrat 18/03/2009 12:02:00

    No accountability for blacklists, yet Watchdog's word is final
    No accountability for blacklists, yet Watchdog's word is final.
  • Content filter pilots debate critics 13/02/2009 09:12:00

    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.
  • Strange bedfellows: Sex and IT unite to stop Net censorship 14/01/2009 11:15:00

    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?
  • Industry peers slam govt file sharing filter 12/01/2009 15:18:00

    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.
  • In Pictures: Aussies rally against sanitised Internet 13/12/2008 17:17:00

    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
  • Industry baffled over clean-feed internet pilot 12/12/2008 15:43:00

    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.
  • A rational banter on filtering 28/11/2008 16:43:00

    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.
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