Communications Minister, Senator Stephen Conroy, and the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) outlined some aspects of how mandatory internet filtering will work at hearings in October, plus growing international connections. Excerpts f…
The ‘live’ trials of mandatory internet filtering are due to switch on from 24 December, just as the nation’s businesses and workers switch off, lowering load.The six-week trials will no longer be ‘live’ as Communications Minister Conroy originally promi…
Angry bloggers are firing in criticisms of the government’s mandatory internet filtering plans on a new Communications Ministry website asking for feedback on the digital economy. Have your penny’s worth Here’s how the ABC reported the story.
One ISP chief calls the government’s Mandatory Internet Filtering plans "loony". Another says the government wants ISPs to "…become judge, jury, policeman, posse, hangman, the whole deal…" which is not appropriate. See them say i…
Oh, what a tangled web government weaves when it first begins to filter the internet. In this example, in the UK, the authorities had to do a rapid about-face when they realised they’d taken down the mass information website, Wikipedia, over one image fr…
The Rudd Government’s mandatory internet filtering plan, led by Communications Minister Stephen Conroy, is in tatters according to Asher Moses, writing in The Age. ISPs are either not taking part in trials, or minimising them, and the trials are no lo…