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  • Online civil libertarians cautiously welcome AU law

    New Australian laws designed to crack down on Internet harassment and usage of the medium to advocate violence have been met with a cautious reaction from online civil libertarians.

  • Children's, liberties groups protest filter

    A number of Australian children's civil liberties and other groups have launched a significant protest against the Federal Government's plans to censor the internet through a filtering scheme.

  • Largest ISPs left out of filter list

    Communications Minister Stephen Conroy this afternoon announced the names of six ISPs that will participate in the Federal Government's internet filter trial but the nation's largest ISPs are not on the list.

  • Photos: Sydneysiders protest internet filtering

    Protesters came together in every major city around the country on Saturday to demonstrate against the Labor Governments' proposed internet filtering scheme. We went to the Sydney protest and spoke to some of the protesters.

  • Will European ISPs be forced to block illegal content?

    The Internet Service Providers' Association (ISPA) is standing by its claim that UK ISPs should not have to block illegal content sent over their infrastructure despite a court ruling in Belgium, which could change the status quo.

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  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    Does Conroy's FUD make a Ludd of Rudd?

    Pretty soon, the government will be screening and filtering our email as well as making blogs like this one disappear.

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    Conroy scraps filter 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'.

Features and Case Studies (3)

  • When will Conroy release filter report?

    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.

  • A chat with Fake Stephen Conroy

    ZDNet.com.au presents the man behind the Twitter account: Fake Stephen Conroy lays out his digital agenda. And kitten-fishing.

  • Joe Biden's tech voting record

    US vice presidential candidate Joe Biden has a mixed record on technology, spending most of his Senate career allied with the FBI and copyright holders. His anti-privacy legislation was actually responsible for the creation of PGP.

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