In what is claimed to be a world first, Australian Internet Service Providers that help to protect children from the dark side of the Net through the provision of filters will be decorated with a seal of approval, in a move to better expose code-compliant ISPs.
Internet service providers and content hosts will be required to report online child porn to the Australian Federal Police (AFP) from 1 March under amendments to the Criminal Code Act 1995.
The Hague Convention on Jurisdiction and Foreign Judgements could have broad implications for consumers and businesses by setting new rules for online copyrights, free speech and e-commerce--if it is approved. Representatives claim the pact threatens free speech and could force Internet service providers to become global content police.
A high-level European vote on communications legislation will take place on Monday evening, raising fears that alleged file-sharers will be denied internet access by their internet service providers.
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Conroy's blind adherence to his net filtering plan will abandon net neutrality ideals and push ISPs down a slippery slope of unprecedented responsibility for a callously politicised Australian internet.
Will new business models cut down the amount of people breaking the law, reduce the market for pirates and remove the need for litigation?
Net neutrality has the superficial attraction of 1960's free love, argues Telstra's Justin Milne, until you realise that one party gets all the gratification while the other bears all the costs.
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.
Executives from several of Australia's largest internet service providers have over the past few months expressed their desire to become media companies in their own right.
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.
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.
The leaders of three of Australia's largest ISP's have declared the net neutrality debate as solely a US problem and further, that the nation that pioneered the internet might want to study the Australian market for clues as to how to solve the dilemma.
Australian ISPs have ambitions to become content providers as well as connection providers.
ISP-level content filtering won't work, according to three of Australia's largest internet service providers.
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