New Internet censorship laws introduced to NSW Parliament will criminalise Internet material unsuitable for children, effectively banning adult discussion of social and political topics, according to staunch civil liberties supporters.
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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Industry groups have welcomed the recommendations in a recent report that legislation dealing with Internet censorship be repealed, which would return Internet law enforcement to the Crimes Act of 1900.
The Western Australian Internet Association (WAIA) has slammed an Internet censorship policy created by the Family First Party in the wake of Australia's biggest ever child porn bust.
Pretty soon, the government will be screening and filtering our email as well as making blogs like this one disappear.
The weekend's Big Brother "sex scandal", during which the official site's live feed and forums were taken offline, highlights an issue that is provoking debate across the globe: to what extent are Web site administrators responsible for the conduct of their users?
Termination of file-sharing internet users' accounts is coming up for New Zealanders again.
There is no suggestion even by government that this filter would aid law enforcement, and nobody, including the ISPs themselves, has suggested there is any possibility that the pilot will tell a different story.
Federal Government plans to introduce ISP-level filtering to provide a 'safer' internet experience for Australian families are likely to be met with significant resistance from within the ISP community.
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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