Stop the Great Firewall of Australia!

Pastor writes for News Corp - "Filtering of websites does not make a nanny state"

News Corp, as in, Fox News, all that.

For your convenience I've picked out the basic point of the article for yo... More

This is a research paper on the filter. It is approximately 46 pages long, so if you have some spare time you could read it.

You can read it here: http://www.scribd.com/doc/24138351/Untangling-the-Net-The-Scope-of-Content-Caught-by-Mandatory-Internet-Fi... More

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THE GOVERNMENT IS GOING AHEAD WITH THE FILTER

SEE THE PREVIOUS ANNOUNCEMENT IN THIS GRO... More

http://www.minister.dbcde.gov.au/media/media_releases/2009/115


Essentially, all 'refused-classification' content from overseas servers will be blocked.

From a Whirlpool summary (http://whirlpool.net.au/news/?id=185... More

http://www.itwire.com/content/view/29968/127/

For those who don't know about the IIA, their members include ISPs among others. You may have heard of them in the iiNet torrenting case; they wished to be a "friend of the court" but failed.

According to... More

According to ARN, "If minister Stephen Conroy really wants to make compulsory ISP filtering a reality, he will have to pull it off without going through parliament as it currently stands."

The Greens, Liberals and independent Nick Xenaphon all are again... More

Go wild.

http://www.zdnet.com.au/insight/communications/soa/Conroy-promises-filter-report-in-due-course-/0,139023754,339299734,00.htm

http://www.itnews.com.au/News/161533,christian-lobby-buoyant-on-filtering-after-meeting-conroy.aspx

http://www.itnews.com.au/News/158588,conroy-to-release-filtering-report-and-discussion-paper.aspx

This story outlines some of the very odd ways in which the ACMA classifies works for the internet compared to other media.

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/09/15/1444237/Australias-Bizarre-Classification-System-For-Internet-Censorship

http://whirlpool.net.au/news/go.cfm?article=7751