Internet users have started replicating and publishing a list which its anonymous leakers had claimed was the list of banned websites in Australia used by the Australian Communications and Media Authority.
Communications Minister Stephen Conroy today released the highly anticipated results of a test of ISP-based filtering technology, which appeared to show the technology was effective and delivered only negligible speed impact to users, within the parameters set by the communications regulator.
Australian Twitterers just can't stop talking about the fact that whistle-blower web repository Wikileaks has published what appears to be the Australian Communications and Media Authority's blacklist of banned websites.
Mandatory ISP filtering legislation will be introduced around the middle of 2010, after which there will be a one year period to implement and activate the filtering technology.
Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has said that the list of prohibited internet addresses leaked by an unknown party is not the ACMA blacklist.
Communications minister Stephen Conroy today announced the controversial web filtering blacklist will be scrapped and be replaced with a whitelist-based filtering regime, to be administered by viewer voting through a family-friendly digital TV-only show called 'The White List'.
Even the dim-witted bad guys in the Bond flick Quantum of Solace know that concentrating lots of power in a small place may not be the best idea. So how could Stephen Conroy and ACMA have been surprised when the alleged web filter blacklist made its debut?
IIA CEO Peter Coroneos, Greens Senator Scott Ludlam, Bravehearts executive director Hetty Johnston and Internode chief Simon Hackett have their say on the government's controversial internet content filter in the latest Twisted Wire podcast.
Optus' involvement in the controversial government blacklist project could fall on either side of the fence. In kissing the ring, is Optus conceding that censorship is inevitable or hatching a scheme to discredit Conroy's folly from within?
The government dumped its well-intentioned bidders and spent the day awash in adulation from an industry that suddenly felt all its Christmases had come at once. But isn't this the same government that, two weeks ago, was warning it had to ditch key election promises for lack of funding?
Yesterday's report from the Australian Computer Society's Filtering and E-Security Task Force will be a handy weapon in Communications Minister Senator Stephen Conroy's battle over internet censorship.
Communications Minister Stephen Conroy will likely release a censored version of Enex Testlabs' report into the technical feasibility of ISP-level internet filtering, in an attempt to minimise the fallout on his political career.
Electronic Frontiers Australia has complied with a notice by the nation's communications regulator to delete a link from its site. But, the organisation writes, the action raises serious freedom of speech and freedom of political communication issues.
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A month after admitting to receiving the ISP filtering live trial report, the office of Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has committed to releasing it in "due course".
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