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  • New AU laws to target online porn, e-crime

    Senator Richard Alston, the Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, has flagged new laws to crack down on Internet harassment and the usage of the medium to advocate violence.

  • Coonan's PC porn filter six months late

    Australians are not likely to get government-provided free online content filters for their PCs until June this year at the earliest, some six months after initially stipulated.

  • ISP-level porn filters a bad idea

    Wise heads have already dismissed the idea of filtering pornography at the Internet service provider level, and rightly so.

  • Alston pushes porn PIN to reduce phone bills

    Government driven draft standards, which could force ISPs to restrict access to online pornography via premium rate services unless customers have a PIN and have given their written approval to access these services, have been released for public comment.

  • Internet dumping burning unsuspecting consumers

    The practice of Internet Dumping has been growing recently, and many people are sceptical of the Australian Government's attempts to control the practice.

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