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  • Police to get powers to censor Australians' Web

    Federal Police could soon have the power to control which sites can and cannot be viewed by Australian Web surfers.

  • Government 'Big Mother' monitors kids Web usage

    A new government program protecting kids from Internet nasties is not Big Brother but more like Big Mother, Olympic swimmer Kieren Perkins said.

  • 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.

  • Google fixes China search bugs

    A day after Google's buggy censorship of sites for Chinese-users was revealed, the search giant responded by fixing its filters so topics such as beer and jokes are no longer deleted.

  • What Google censors in China

    Google's new China search engine not only censors many Web sites that question the Chinese government, but it goes further than similar services from Microsoft and Yahoo by targeting teen pregnancy, homosexuality, dating, beer and jokes.

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  • Read the blog post - Ella Morton

    Searching for answers

    As the essential tool for the wired generation, Google's search engine has come to embody the zeitgeist of the noughties -- one of information overload and instant gratification. But is it dangerous for a tech company to have such cultural influence?

  • Read the blog post - Angus Kidman

    Who are you calling a terrorist?

    A friend of mine who works in IT passed on some surprising news the other day.

Features and Case Studies (2)

  • 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.

  • Seven things a CIO shouldn't say

    Since today’s corporate organisational charts don’t include positions for full-time censors, here’s a list of what not to say to corporate leadership and why.

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