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Latest News Shortcuts:
OCAU Discussion:
- Internet Filter: Measures to improve safety of the internet for families
- Discussion Thread Here
- Poll For/Against The Proposal
- Anti-abortion website blacklisted by ACMA!
- Australian blacklist leaked on Wikileaks
- Web Filter to censor Video Games
- Govt want to put non-classified game websites on web filter list
- Anon to target Kevin Rudd/Internet Censorship in Australia on 27th July 2009
Highlights:
- ISP Filtering Survey - Natasha Griggs (CLP Candidate for Solomon)
- Conroy delays controversial web filtering plan
Interesting:
- EFA Senate Internet Censorship Petition
- GetUp! Fax your MP free faxing service
- Censordyne
- Australian Democrats - No Internet Censorship
Submissions for content (news, blogs, polls, etc), corrections, etc can be made by a user of the OCAU forums or can be sent to contact@fingerpuppetmafia.com
About
- The Government plans to impose mandatory Internet filtering at the Internet Service Provider (ISP) level. There are two lists, a 'child' safe list which filters both illegal content and hardcore pornography; a second which users can 'opt-out' to which only filters unwanted content.
- Senator Stephen Conroy, the Government Senator responsible for this project has stated that they will also be looking into the possibility of filtering other content that may be illegal in Australia. Which would for example include: euthanasia, abortion, drug-use, etc.
- Other political parties and members have made their intentions clear to include further content to be banned, such as overseas online gambling, and as suggested by Family First Senator Steve Fielding - hardcore pornography.
- 'Conservative' Senator, Cory Bernadi has since rescinded his support for the Government's plan, voiced his concerns with mandatory Internet filtering, and has also elaborated no his frustations with the current filtering systems in use in Parliamentary offices. 1
- Mark Newton, a Network Engineer from ISP Internode was the victim of bullying by the Office of Stephen Conroy over his criticisms of the Government's Internet Filtering plans. Conroy's policy advisor Belinda Dennett, sent an email to the Internet Industry Association (IIA) board member Carolyn Dalton stating requesting that Mark Newton rein in his comments over the Government's proposal. This email was accompanied by a phone call demanding that the message be passed onto Senior Internode Management. Mark Newton has made it clear that his comments are his own and do not reflect the opinions of his employer.
- Senator Conroy accused Senator Ludlam (Greens) of suggesting that people should have access to child pornography when questioning him at committee meeting whether users would truly be able to "opt-out" of the system. 2 3
- Email, Peer to Peer, Instant messaging, newsgroups and any other custom application protocols are on the ACMA report as things that the Government is also planning to apply the ISP-Level filtering to.
- Conroy has answered in the Senate at Question Time that the filtering system will block access to "unwanted content". He has avoided answering any questions that Senator Ludlam has directed at him.
- The filtering trial has been scheduled to begin in April/May 2009, however there have been delays due to ACMA having to tighten security around the blacklist. iiNet had applied to be part of the trial but they later withdrew. iiNet's CEO Michael Malone said in a statement that "It became increasingly clear that the trial was not simply about restricting child pornography or other such illegal material, but a much wider range of issues including what the government simply describes as 'unwanted material' without an explanation of what that includes". The initial ISPs that will take part in the trial were announced on the 11th of February 2009 and they are Primus Telecommunications, Tech 2U, Webshield, OMNIconnect, Netforce and Highway 1. Optus was announced as a trial participant by the DBCDE on the 22nd April 2009 and will begin their trials on May 22nd 2009 on an opt-out basis for a selection of their DSL direct customers. Telstra and Exetel are conducting their own private trials of filtering technology.
- Up to 10,000 websites will be on the blacklist of the ISP Level filtering trial scheduled for April/May 2009. It is unknown what is on this list of banned websites, and it is likely that they will not be released at any time in the future.
- A list has been released on Wikileaks claiming to be the ACMA blacklist, however Conroy, ACMA and Tech2U have claimed this is not the actual ACMA list. Although Senator Conroy did confirm that a number of URLs on the list were present on the ACMA list and suggested that legal action would be taken against people passing on the list and AFP may become involved. The validity of the list cannot be confirmed as unbiased sources are not able to gain access to the real ACMA blacklist. 4
- Senator Conroy has been repeatedly questioned on the proposed filtering system by several other Senators from various parties, however has each time failed to answer the actual question directed at him.
- The extent of 'unwanted' websites is still unknown, however Senator Conroy now claims that the Government has always only wanted to block material that has been refused classification (RC) by the classification board. This is in stark contrast to the many statements he has made saying the Government intends to use the ACMA blacklist for the mandatory filtering tier which contains material that comes under a variety of classifications 5. The filtering trial will use the standard ACMA blacklist. It became known that the ACMA blacklist contains political content when a member of Whirlpool recently submitted a complaint relating to an anti-abortion website which contained pictures of unborn fetuses (however legal) to ACMA. ACMA confirmed that they were satisified that the images were something that would be classified as RC by the classification board and that the website had been added to the blacklist.
- A link to the now banned website was posted on the Whirlpool forums, and subsequently the ACMA ordered a takedown notice to Bulletproof Networks (Whirlpool's webhost) threatening fines of $11,000 a day. This is also unusual in the circumstance that it is never happened before as well as the takedown notice being issued to the webhost instead of the party responsible for hosted website.
- The ACMA list has already been leaked on the Wikileaks website.
- This list contained a number of legal websites which also include a dentist, dog kennel, and a Queensland tour operator. Among other URLs on the list are numerous Youtube, wikipedia, fringe religous, legal straight and gay porn, and euthanasia websites.
Further Information
- No Clean Feed
- Closed Environment Testing of ISP-Level Internet Content Filtering: Report to the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy. June 2008.
- Developments in Internet Filtering Technologies and Other Measures for Promoting Online Safety. February 2008
- EFA Timeline - Electronic Frontiers Australia
- EFA Censorship Category - Electronic Frontiers Australia
- Petitions to parliament drove ALP’s Internet filtering policy - Stilgherrian blog
- Mind map - FPM
Related OCAU Wiki Pages
- Australian Internet Filtering - Bernadette McMenamin
- Australian Internet Filtering(Quotes)
- Australian Internet Filtering - Action
- Australian Internet Filtering - Responses to those supporting mandatory filtering
Misleading Claims
Senator Stephen Conroy has asserted a number of times that the UK, Sweden, Canada and New Zealand have already implemented similar filtering systems with no impact to performance. Mark Newton an engineer from the ISP Internode has outlined that these claims are misleading where these countries are operating filtering systems that are contrary to Senator Conroy's claims.
In the UK the Government is excluded from online censorship by the Communications Act and British Telecom only provides a private voluntary clean feed system to their customers. In Canada eight ISPs run a voluntary parental control tool - there has been no Government intervention for the ISPs to provide this service as there is no legal obligation. A single ISP in Sweden runs an optional blacklist - this system later came under heavy controversy in regards to 'Scope Creep' by the Swedish Police threatening to add the Torrent site The Pirate Bay to the child pornography filter blacklist. New Zealand has just introduced a voluntary filtering system - an examination of the British Telecom filtering system in the UK was found to only block 10-15% of the targeted restricted material. libertus.net Whirlpool (Mark Newton)
It has also been claimed that users would be able to 'opt-out' of the filtering system when in fact two blacklists would be operating, users who choose to 'opt-out' of the filtering would be still be filtered according to a list of unwanted content. The definition of opt-out has been varied by Stephen Conroy, he has first claimed that it was not possible to opt-out of the filtering system competely, however in a recent comment by Conroy on SkyNews he mentioned that it would be possible to "opt-out" from the cleanfeed. The definition of the cleanfeed at this time possibly meaning the filter list that includes hardcore pornography.
Issues
Social
- The ACMA Report in June 2008, has shown the Government's interest in applying filtering/blocking to non-web protocols. These include normally considered private/personal methods such as e-mail, instant messaging, newsgroups and other custom defined non-web protocols.
- The definition of the 'unwanted content' has not yet been determined, however it has been made clear that the Government will seek to ban content that is considered illegal under Australian law. This would include content concerning euthanasia, abortion, suicide, and drugs.
Update:Senator Conroy is now on record as stating that only Refused Classification (RC) material will be blocked, which covers some material that is not illegal under Australian law.
- In the implementation of the filtering system, it is likely that many parents would become complacent and assume that the "Internet" is then safe for their children to use without supervision which they would otherwise have maintained a careful vigilance over. eg. More parents would allow their children to use computers in their own bedrooms/personal privacy without supervision.
- In the event that once the filtering system comes into place, it is highly unlikely that the filtering system would be removed from use at all. (Government admitting defeat on filtering solution).
- No guarantee in future on what content would be restricted or monitored.
- Through the denying of inappropriate content, information resources that allow the population to educate themselves and create their own unbiased opinions over issues such as abortion, euthanasia or anorexia would be denied.
- Sufferers of particular social problems would be restricted contact with online support groups (forums, newsgroups, Instant messaging, irc chatrooms). These types of contact currently allow adults/teenagers to seek support or varying opinions from those that would normally be within their everyday real life peer groups.
- It is not known what will be blocked, and currently there are no plans to define "unwanted content" or the type of content that will be blocked.
Technical
- Slows the Internet. Performance degradation may be introduced by the filtering systems onto Australia's Internet infrastructure.
- Even if a user were able to opt-out completely, performance degradation (PPI in the ACMA report) is still present to an extent.
- "Conroy had said that it was not possible to apply ISP-level filtering to YouTube because it would introduce performance issues for the website's users." 1
- PC-based filtering would be able to provide more processing power per user and thus provide more comprehensive, accurate and consistent filtering. This is because a basic PC does not utilise much of its processing power and would be more powerful than a single central filter at the ISP server level trying to filter content for thousands of users being run through it.
- The filters are not perfect, not all of the illegal and pornographic content will be censored by the filter.
- Websites which are not meant to be filtered or blocked, will be mistakenly blocked/filtered.
- An ISP may receive 100,000 webpage requests per second - under best scenario conditions would mean that 3,000 of those requests would be accidentally blocked (delta filter which however is also not appropriate for large-scale deployment - ACMA report June 2008).
- Websites which are banned that share a webhost IP address with other websites will result in those other websites being blocked as well.
- There are currently no filtering systems that support IPv6 - in future the planned filtering systems may be made redundant; or their performance capacities may be different to what has currently been tested so far. This was not considered the ACMA report (June 2008).
- The ACMA report in June 2008, does not consider future proofing the filtering systems for modern and future Internet connection solutions. It considers 1.5Mbps as an average connection and the live trials to be held at the end of 2008 would limit users to 12Mbps. Current technologies exist for home users to access Internet connections of up to 50Mbps. [1]
- Filters are currently not able to handle encrypted data, and other non-web protocols. However, 5 out of the 6 filters tested were able to filter HTTPS traffic potentially making all online purchases and banking insecure.
Financial
- The Internet will become more expensive for the end user. Ongoing maintenance costs of the filter will be passed onto the consumer.
- Similarly services provided by businesses that utilise the Internet may also be forced to pass the additional costs onto customers or allow it to detract from their profits.
- Smaller Internet Service Providers (ISPs) may not be able to afford the costs associated with the filtering. Initial setup costs and costs to provide adequate network infrastructure would be comparable to larger ISPs who are more able to provide the necessary funding.
- ISPs who have already built a 'family friendly' brand around them already offering "clean feed" would be hurt by the Government's duplicitous ISP Level filtering scheme.
- The product chosen by the Government would extinguish the need for any other filtering products in the Australian market. Companies and businesses who have already spent money on providing filtering solutions for their networking uses would find their chosen product pointless and an unnecessary duplication of infrastructure.
- Would cause a monopolisation in the Australian market by a single filtering company who owns the product that the Government would select. Any additional filtering would mostly be redundant and performance restrictive.
- The costs are going to be far beyond what the government has budgeted for. $189M.
- In the event that a website be blocked (and subsquently added to the blacklist) accidentally, Internet oriented business stand to lose entire days of profits. The same can be said for non-Internet oriented businesses as where they are communicating and advertising to potential and existing customers.
- Overseas investors are currently unsure what effect the filtering system will have on business with Australia, and what changes may take place in future.
Legal
- Will hinder Police and cooperative International Police operations in the task of tracking child sexual offenders.
- Operation Auxin (2004) made use of the current ability to track a specific user's "paths" along international data networks. In terms of escalating technological efforts of both sides of the law, it will force more offenders to utilise methods (eg. encryption) which the policing bodies have no ability to monitor. Mick Keelty, AFP Commissioner has described this as a "silver lining" of the Internet in its ability to help authorities track criminals. [2] [3]
- Child sex offenders have even used their credit card details to sign up for bait and trap child pornography websites set up by policing authorities.
- However it should be noted that people who are committing crimes willingly and regularly already know what they are doing is illegal. As such they have already utilised encryption, Peer to Peer and other methods to circumvent detection. This means that ISP Level filtering will have minimal effect on most current offenders.
- Illegal content is not defined uniformly between the State, Territory and Federal levels. What may be legal in one state/territory, may be banned by the filtering system.
- Contents of the blacklist (inappropriate material) may be released to the public and would enable offenders access to a list of where to find illegal content (eg. Child pornography). See the leaking of the Danish and Thai censorship lists.
- Would limit the content of illegal content available to Australians over the Internet. However would never stop such material from being available without being a breach of freedom of expression. (Australian Institute of Criminology)
- Which party would be to blame should the occasion arise that a business or company would seek compensation for profits lost in the event that their website/IP gets added to the list and becomes inaccessible.
- Parties hosting a banned link in Australia on the ACMA's list are liable for fines of $11000 a day. (eg. User posts a banned link on forums hosted in Australia and the host/website owner are liable to fines.)
Taking Action
- Get in contact with your local members or Senators. (Letter, email, phone call).
- Spread the word to all your friends and family. Let them know what it is about and what they can do.
- Join facebook groups.
- No Clean Feed
- Contact local and national newspaper outlets. (eg. Herald Sun, Courier Mail, The Age, your local city newspapers, etc)
- Write Letters to the Editor
- Contact television and radio productions. (eg. ABC, ACA, TT, 3AW, FoxFM, etc)
- Contact businesses and companies other than those involved directly in IT. Essentially every industry utilises the Internet in some form in Australia, even farmers.
- casgeroth has written an excellent letter to contact banks/credit card companies, here.
- For ideas on where to start try this thread on Whirlpool.
- Sign the TakingITGlobal online petition
- Sign the GetUp! online petition.
Responsible care with Children and the Internet
- Have your child's or family's computer in a visible family space such as the living room. This way they are unlikely to go and seek out inappropriate websites while in plain view of others. (eg. Pornography) This does mean necessarily that the parents will have to actively watch them, for younger teens the chance that they may be caught would be enough of a deterrent from fear that they may get caught.
- Do not leave young children unattended alone at a computer browsing the Internet.
- Filtering Software such as Net Nanny will help aid in protecting younger children from accessing unwanted content such as pornography, or graphical violence.
- Many ISPs are already "family-friendly" and offer their own filtered feeds to help aid parents. Contact your ISP to find out if they support filtering or provide filtering software to install.
Facts
- http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/mf/8147.0/
- http://www.internetworldstats.com/sp/au.ht
- http://www.aic.gov.au/conferences/internet/grabosky.pdf
- http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/chpornography/
- http://www.dbcde.gov.au/communications_for_business/funding_programs__and__support/isp_filtering_live_pilot
Discussion in Parliament
- Senate Estimates Committee Hansard, Environment, Communications and the Arts 20/10/2008 - Pages 73 - 79 Senator Ludlam Queries Senator Conroy regarding the Government's "Cyber safety" policy.
- Senate Hansard 11/11/2008 - Page 17 - Senator Ludlam questions Senator Conroy about misleading claims. Page 27 - Senator Ludlam moves to have Senator Conroys response noted and comments on his response.
- OpenAustralia - Senator Conroy provides 'further information' in answer to Senator Ludlam's questions.
- Senate Notice Paper 27/11/2008 - Pages 57 - 60 Senator Ludlam provides Senator Conroy with a large list of questions on notice.
- Senate Estimates Committee Hansard 23/02/2009 - Begins Page 65 - Various topics of discussion regarding internet filtering, the composition of the ACMA black list and the complaint process.
- Senate Notice Paper 12/05/2009 - Pages 65 - 69 Senator Ludlam queries Senator Conroy about ACMA and content classification.
- Senate Hansard 08/11/2010
- Pursuant to Resolution 5 (7) (b) of the Senate of 25 February 1988 - Response by Mr Geordie Guy, Board Member, Electronic Frontiers Australia Inc. on behalf of the Board Members of Electronic Frontiers Australia Inc.
Media Coverage
2006
- A study on server based internet filters | Performance Graphs - NetAlert - 2006
- Giants say no to porn filter trial - AustralianIT - 18 Apr 2006
- Australia to give away porn-filtering software - CNET - 21 June 2006
- The senator, the surrogate and the new baby - The Age
2007
- ISPs give cautious welcome to PM's porn crusade - Ninemsn - 10 Aug 2007
- Howard's net porn crusade - The Australian - 10 Aug 2007
- Australia to spend $189 million on anti-porn tech initiative - ars technica - 14 Aug 2007
- Coonan seeks to censor the Web - The Australian - 20 Sep 2007
- Labor's plan for cyber safety | Stephen Conroy - ALP (pdf) - Election 2007
- Conroy announces mandatory internet filters to protect children - ABC - 31 Dec 2007
- Australian government caught editing Wikipedia - The Age Issues with Government in control of information
- Internet Filtering - Be Careful What You Ask for - SSRN
2008
Early 2008
- Australia's plans to filter Internet under fire - The Age - 02 Jan 2008
- Rudd porn filter fails: experts - AustralianIT - 03 Jan 2008
- Stephen Conroy wades into child porn net flood - AustralianIT - 08 Jan 2008
- Web porn software filter a dud - The Age - 17 Feb 2008
- Costs threaten NetAlert - AustralianIT - 26 Feb 2008
- Education 'as effective as internet filtering' - News.com.au - 26 Feb 2008
- !Opinion Piece, ISP Filtering – Stuart Marburg, Managing Director, Netspace - Netspace - Feb 2008
- Govt moves to improve porn filter - ABC - 05 Mar 2008
- Govt sticks to guns on internet porn filters - ABC - 06 Mar 2008
- The end of the free internet? (Opinion) - ABC - 23 Apr 2008
- ISPs crucial to child pornography blocks - Australian IT - 29 Jul 2008
- SAGE-AU comments on ACMA internet filtering study - Electronic news Australia - 07 Aug 2008
- The slippery slope towards internet censorship continues - Crikey - 21 Sep 2008
13-20 October 2008
- No opt-out of filtered Internet - Computerworld The Industry Standard - 13 Oct 2008
- No opt-out of filtered Internet - webwereld (Netherlands) - 14 Oct 2008
- Australia To Build Great Firewall Down Under - Gizmodo (us) - 16 Oct 2008
- Interview With Media Contact For Senator the Hon Stephen Conroy Regarding Australian Internet Filter - Tech Wired Australia - 17 Oct 2008
- Oz watchdogs howl over 'Cyber-Safety' net filter - The Register - 17 Oct 2008
- Australian Internet Filtering Plan Gets More Ridiculous - Broadband DSLReports.com - 17 Oct 2008
- Australia embraces web censorship - Global Voices Advocacy - 17 Oct 2008
- EFA expresses alarm at Government "Internet censorship" - iTWire - 17 Oct 2008
- Nation-Wide Internet Censorship Proposed For Australia - Slashdot - 17 Oct 2008
- Australian Tech Could Turn U.S. ISPs into Kiddie Porn Cops - Daily Tech (us)
- Australia to Censor the Internet - ShortNews - 17 Oct 2008
- Compulsory Internet filters might be coming to Australia - Fierce CIO - 17 Oct 2008
- And the Wankley Award goes to ... Conroy's net filtering scheme - Crikey - Oct 17 2008
- Australia to get mandatory internet filter - Guru3d - 18 Oct 2008
- Hansard 20/10/08 Committee Transcript - Fingerpuppetmafia aph.gov.au - 20 Oct 2008
23-24 October 2008
- Australian Government Censorship 'Worse Than Iran' - Slashdot - 23 Oct 2008
- Australian censorship minister tries to censor critic: time to go Conroy - The Inquisitr - 23 Oct 2008
- The high price of internet filtering - ABC - 24 Oct 2008
- Filtering out the fury: how government tried to gag web censor critics - SMH - 24 Oct 2008
- Read this while you can | Andrew Bolt blog - Herald Sun - 24 Oct 2008
- Australian Govt's Plan to Censor the Internet is stricter than 'Iran' - Zero Paid
- Aussie government now censors Web critics - Fudzilla - 24 Oct 2008
- Govt's internet censor 'stricter than Iran' - LiveNews - 24 Oct 2008
- 'Appalled' opposition hits back at Conroy's Internet censorship - PC World - 24 Oct 2008
- Cheap tricks not the right response on internet filtering - Crikey - 24 Oct 2008
- Aussie govt: Don't criticize our (terrible) 'Net filters - ars technica - 24 Oct 2008
25-27 October 2008
- Australia trials national net filters - BBC - 25 Oct 2008
- Australia trials Internet filtering - what happened to person choice? - TECH.BLORGE.com 26 Oct 2008
- Australian Government Ignoring Problems With Proposed Filters - Slashdot - 26 Oct 2008
- Let's just file that idea away under naivety - SMH - 27 Oct 2008
- Net filters may block porn and gambling sites - The Age - 27 Oct 2008
- SAGE-AU defends right to criticise content filtering - IT News - 27 Oct 2008
- Who censures the censor? | Simon Hackett - Business Spectator - 27 Oct 2008
- Conroy filter gag sparks sysadmin rage - ZDNet Australia - 27 Oct 2008
- Minister under fire: IT Professionals say net filtering won't work - ITWire - 27 Oct 2008
- Stranglehold on the internet - AdelaideNow - 27 Oct 2008
- Interview with ‘Bullied’ Network Engineer on Australian Gov’t Net Filters - Network Performance Blog - 27 Oct 2008
- Australia readies mandatory Internet filter - The Argosy - 27 Oct 2008
- Filtering out our freedom - Adelaide Now - 27 Oct 2008
- Australia now wants to ban Internet porn - The Inquirer - 27 Oct 2008
- Proposed Aussie Bans Generating Heat - Online-Casinos.com - 27 Oct 2008
- Push to censor online gambling, porn - LiveNews - 27 Oct 2008
- Australia tries to Silence Web Filter Critics - guru3d (us) - 27 Oct 2008
28 October 2008
- SAGE-AU defends right to criticise content filtering - CRN Australia
- Editorial | Freedom of speech depends on the right choices - The Age
- Australia's Internet filter: could legal content be banned, too? - Ars Technica
- Greens, independents cautious on Conroy's proposed Internet filters - CommsDay.com
- New internet filter imposed on all web surfers - Courier mail
- Freedom of speech depends on the right choices | Editorial - The Age
- In Conroy’s muddy waters you'll never know what’s being filtered - Linux World (aus)
29 October 2008
- Is internet censorship ever ok? - 7 Sunrise
- Australia's compulsory internet filtering 'costly, ineffective' - News.com.au
- Australia's compulsory internet filtering 'costly, ineffective' - AustralianIT
- In Australia's muddy Internet waters, you don't know what's being filtered - IT World Canada
- All stars - internet censorship | 7 Sunrise - 7 Sunrise (Video)
- No opting out of Australian plan to censor websites - Courier Mail
- Australian internet filter to be compulsory - perth now
- Australia to implement mandatory internet censorship - Herald Sun
- Adult Australians don't need a net nanny - Courier Mail
- Tech giants join move to protect freedom of speech online - SMH
- The push to gag the internet - Same Same
- Senator Conroy responds to net filter fears - 7 Sunrise
- Q&A: Clearswift CTO - ZDNet Australia
- Here comes the filternet - MCV
- Internet censorship fears - Sydney Star Observer (SSO)
- 3AW | Media Talk on Internet censorship | Derryn Hinch - 3AW (Windows Media Audio)
- Democracy and censorship - SMH
- Australia Plans to Block online casinos - Online Casino News
- In Australia's muddy Internet waters, you don't know what's being filtered - ITWorld Canada
- Australia Plans Internet Filters to Block Online Casinos and More - Online Casino Advisory
- Australian push to block porn and gambling sites - Legalbrief Today (South Africa)
- Australia readies mandatory Internet filter - The Argosy (Canada)
- SAGE-AU calls for open talk on internet censorship - Electronics News
- Internet filter to cause World Wide Wait for Aussies - Courier Mail
- Internet censorship is draconian | Editorial - Courier Mail
- Net filter an assault on freedom that just won't work - Courier Mail
- The great firewall of Australia - Excalibur Web edition (Canada)
- Definition for child porn needed, says Suhakam - The Star (Malaysia)
- Interview with Colin Jacobs of Electronic Frontiers Australia Re: Australian Internet Filter - Tech Wired Australia
- Sky News - Internet Censorship - YouTube
- A Clean Feed? - AtomicMPC
- Australia to implement mandatory internet censorship - Boot Daily
30 October 2008
- National Firewalls A Step On Slipper Slope to Censorship - New York Times
- Filter to cause World Wide Wait - Australian IT
- Australia to implement mandatory internet censorship - Boot Daily
- Internet Gambling May be Censored in Australia - Poker News Daily
- Internet screening move hits hurdle - The Age The Age (tech) WA Today SMH Brisbane Times
- Jonathan Kay: When did the Australians become such weenies? - National Post (Canada)
- The perplexing Internet debate | Mark Newton - ON LINE opinion
- The Great Firewall of Thailand - CNET Asia
- Speeches wiped off ALP website - News.com.au
- The Great Firewall of Australia | Stephen Conroy - ABC mediareport (Audio/Transcript)
- Surmounting the Great Firewall of Australia - PC World
- Clean Feed 'not technically possible' - Techworld
- Suhakam Urges Government To Enact Laws To Protect Children From Porn - Bernama.com (Malaysia)
- ISP-level content filtering won't work | Simon Hackett (Internode), Justin Milne (Telstra), Michael Malone (iiNet) - ZDNet Australia (YouTube Video ONLY)
- Nationwide Firewall in Australia Slows Speeds and Free Speech - atelier-us.com(us)
- Kevin Libin: Canada's approach to web censorship -- first let the flowers grow, then lop them off - National Post (canada)
- Our new net nanny nation - The Chronicle
- Going Offshore? Watch Out for Australia, Too. - Domain Name Wire (us)
- The truth behind our online fears - Globe and Mail | technology
31 October 2008
- Clean Feeds | Mark Pesce - ABC
- Protest logged on internet filter for illegal sites - Courier Mail
- Australia's Big Brother internet filtering - it's time to speak out - SMH Blog
- Support fades for Australian net censorship - vnunet.com (uk)
- Australia to Implement Mandatory Internet Censorship - Natural News
- Comments, corrections, clarifications, and c*ckups - Crikey
- Strewth! Will stickybeak Oz pollies come a gutzer over shonky web censorship plan? - TelecomTV (uk)
- Web filter 'needed' to protect kids from porn - Courier Mail
- Aussies internet screening hitting brick wall - The Inquirer (uk)
- Internet Filtering | ABC hack - ABC Hack (wm)(temp)
- Proposed Australian Law Causes Uproar - Web Host Industry News (canada)
- Aussie Gov't Says 'Yes, Way!' to 'Net Censorship - Marketing Vox (us)
01 Movember 2008
- Australia's ISPs Speak Out Against Filtering - Slashdot
- INTERNET CENSORSHIP: Australia to implement mandatory internet censorship - Global Research (canada)
- Wilkinson Discusses the Free Speech of Pedophiles - Fora.tv
02 November 2008
- Net censorship a danger sign - Herald Sun
- News week in review: hacking the vote, filtering the 'Net, dropping the F-bomb, and Windows 7 - ars technica (us)
- Principles of the Internet giants - Sunday Times (Sri Lanka)
03 November 2008
- How to easily bypass Australia's internet filters for free - SMH (Sydney Morning Herald)
- Bypass Australia's internet filters for free - iTWire
- This post contains inappropriate content – you’ve been warned. - PC World
- Comments, corrections, clarifications, and c*ckups - Crikey
- Hands off the Internet - Computer World
- You Have Every Right To Be Angry: The Government Wants To Kill The Internet - Gizmodo
- Support fades for Australian net censorship - CRN Australia
- Internet filtering vendors in dash for Australian ISP cash - TelecomTV
- Australian Web Crawl - Reason.com Hit & Run
- Support fades for Australian net censorship - PC Authority
- Hands off the Internet - ARN
- This post contains inappropriate content – you’ve been warned. - PC World
- Australian Internet filters have backdoor - PC Authority
04 November 2008
- Online filtering recognises families' concerns - ABC Anh Nguyen
- Top 5 reasons to fight government ISP filtering - APC Mag
- We don't want Stephen Conroy in our bedrooms - Courier Mail
- Comments, corrections, clarifications, and c*ckup - Crikey
- Why Clean Feed Internet Plans Are Wrong - Lifehacker
- America turns left - Examiner.com National Australia's Internet filtering is cited.
- Colin Jacobs: Filtering at Odds with Broadband Revolution - GetUp
- Rethink needed on web censorship - Border Watch
- Online filtering recognises families' concerns - ABC
- NannyNet Down Under - Wall Street Journal
05 November 2008
- ISPs say they will suffer from filtering - WA Business News
- Comments, corrections, clarifications, and c*ckups - Crikey
- Is the Internet going down down under? - The Register
- Say goodbye to online porn - Sydney Star Observer
- Caught in the Web: The internet is giving China's citizens a tool with which to outwit the state Time Online (uk)
- The dangers of Internet censorship - Boston Globe
- Australian Censorship Bypassed Before Live Trials - Slashdot
06 November 2008
- Say G'day to Fake Steve Conroy - APC Magazine
- Internet censorship effort raises big questions - Network World
- How Obama wants tech to save the world - APC
- NANNYNET DOWN UNDER - National Center for Policy Analysis
- No Great Firewall seen for New Zealand - Computer World (NZ)
- Comments, corrections, clarifications, and c*ckups - Crikey
08 November 2008
- Government uploads hypocrisy with internet censorship - The Age
10 November 2008
- Filter plans a step too far: NetRegistry ZDNet
- Duplicate content filter will hurt family-friendly ISPs - iTnews
- Filter advocates need to check their facts - ABC
- Internet filtering? Just say no - iTWire
- Duplicate content filter will hurt family-friendly ISPs - CRN
- The Great Firewall Down Under - Jolt Digest: An online companion to the Harvard Journal of Law & Technology - Harvard University (us)
11 November 2008
- Opposition rises to internet filter - The Age Brisbane Times
- Canberra calls net filter trial - The Australian
- Too many unanswered questions on net censorship: Greens - Greens|Scott Ludlam
- Net censorship plan backlash - Sydney Morning Herald
- Internet censorship pilot to go ahead - Whirlpool
- Govt urged to provide internet filtering details - ABC
- Conroy seeks ISPs for filter trial - The Age
- Conroy calls for filter pilot volunteers - ZDNet
- Senator Ludlam questions Senator Conroy in the Senate over ISP Level Internet Filtering - Youtube
- Follow Up Interview With Mark Newton of Internode Re: Australian Internet Filter - Tech Wired Australia
- Largest Aussie ISP Agrees to "Ridiculous" Net-Filter Trial Slashdot
- Australian ISPs pan government-mandated 'Net filtering plan - ars technica
12 November 2008
- Conroy coy on filtered web content - The Australian IT
- Video: Conroy defends Internet filter - ZDNet
- Greens accuse Conroy of fudging facts over content filter trials - ComputerWorld
- Australian government calls for live Internet filter trial - iTWire
- Australian ISPs pan government-mandated 'Net filtering plan - ars technica
- Australian ISP Agrees to 'Ridiculous' net-filter trial to prove 'How Stupid It is' - ZeroPaid (us)
- Aussie ISPs step up campaign against net censorship - Fudzilla
- Say goodbye to gaydar - MCV
- Internet filter to block 10,000-plus "unwanted" sites - Courier Mail
- ISP boss pledges to undermine Great Aussie Firewall: Stupid plan is stupid - The Register (uk)
- The Internet Is Fighting Back - Same Same
- AUSTRALIAN MINISTER ASKS ISPS TO GET INVOLVED IN NET NANNY PJT - TCM Net (us)
13 November 2008
- Government Filtering Plans Under Attack - idm.net.au
- Rudd Government's internet filter to block up to 10,000 'unwanted' sites - news.com.au Herald Sun Perth Now Courier Mail
- Govt to block 10,000 websites - Streem
- Optus, iiNet put filters to the test - Computerworld
- Australian net filter to block 10,000 websites - LiveNews
- Senator Conroy expands reach of net filters to "unwanted content" - iTNews
- Internet filter claims unjustified - Sky News
- Spoonman - Should the Government be able to censor the internet? - Triple M - Podcast
- Government's online censorship plan raises ire - inthemix.com.au
- Thought Police - Courier Mail (Viewpoint)
- Optus, iiNet put filters to the test - ARN
- Swearing (TV) ? Blocking 10000 websites ? - Seven Sunrise (youtube) Towards the end
- Thursday All Stars on Internet Censorship - Seven Sunrise (youtube)
- Conroy fails to answer Green's NBN Questions - Sky News (youtube)
14 November 2008
- Australian Web Filter to block more than 10,000 'unwanted' sites - Zero Paid
- Video: Today Show, 'Firewalls Under Fire' (Interview with Mark Newton) - ninemsn Video
- Thought Police - Courier Mail
- No Mail Please, We’re The Government! [Australian Internet Filtering] - Tech Wired Australia
- Filtering the Bible | Jack Marx - News.com.au|Blogs
- Triple M | Spoonman - Internet censorship - Triple M (podcast) (MP3)
- SMB bug gets seven-year itch - Builder AU Mentioned midway
- Internet filtering could cause business chaos - SmartCompany
- Government uploads hypocrisy with internet censorship - ON LINE opinion
- Senator Conroy expands reach of net filters to "unwanted content" - CRN Australia
- Australia planning to block 10,000 websites - Telegraph (UK)
- Australische Regierung will Internetfilter mit einer Blacklist von 10000 URLs testen - Heise (Germany)
- Australia Plans To Block 10,000 Websites - All Headline News (USA)
- ABC Radio | Friday Nightlife - Internet Filtering - (MP3)
- Australia ISPs Call Net Filtering Plan 'Ridiculous' - Broadband DSLreport.com (USA)
15 November 2008
- Censorship, Ratings and the state of the industry. - PAL Gaming Network
- Aussies to Block 10,000 Websites - The Jawa Report (us)
- Australia planning to block 10,000 websites - Global Research (canada)
16 November 2008
- Sex flirts with politics - Herald Sun
- The Stasi down under – Oz democracy at risk with information restrictions - Cleaves newswire
17 November 2008
- Winning the war against Internet censorship - ONLINE opinion
- Toowoomba shopping centre bans Dr Philip Nitschke - The Chronicle related by the current climate of censorship in the Australian community
- Why have kids if you don't look after them? - The Age
- Book burning in the digital age - The Australian
18 November 2008
- Government internet filters are 'stone age' - Coffs Coast Advocate
- Why internet filtering is bad for business - Smart Company
- New task force to examine ISP level content filtering - iTNews
- Your Turn: Censor this! - The Age
- Your Turn: Nanny state - The Age
- ACS creates task force, UNSW to hold forum on Internet filtering - ARN
- Easing private pain - Sydney Morning Herald
- Bishop's hidden homily - The Australian
- Australia’s newest political force: The S-x Party - All News Web
- ISP Filtering - Radio National
- Government reinforces online censorship in name of protecting king’s reputation - Reporters Without Borders (Thailand)
19 November 2008
- OpenNet Initiative: Australia’s content filtering “frightening” - ARN
- ISPs think Conroy is incompetent on Internet filtering: iiNet boss - iTWire
- Fireside chats in the 21st century - ABC Towards bottom
- Australian S-x Party going down under - Independent Political Report
- Reverse censorship psychology Aussie style - The Inquisitr
- Iran cracks down on internet - Sky Newsarticle shows real world example of the slippery slope of censorship
20 November 2008
- Fears over Australia's £55m plan to censor the net - Guardian.co.uk
- Australia's bizarre censorship laws - All News Web
- Conroy's Web - newmatilda.com
- Oz s-x trade to spank parliamentary prudes - The Register (uk)
- ZDNet.com.au readers slam content filtering - ZDNet
- Australia brings new net censorship - Digitaltrends (USA)
- Aussie Movie & TV Industry sues ISP for allowing piracy - ZeroPaidcites internet filtering
- Untangling the web's shifting strands - The Age
21 November 2008
- Black, greylists wrong approach to net filtering: Analyst - ARN
- Internet censorship. Nice idea, just not practical. - Crikey Requires subscription, trial available
- Movie studios Suing iiNet For Not Stopping Pirates - Gizmodo Australia
- Australian Sex Party tells politicians what it wants - Independent Political Report
- NSW calls Conroy on Euro filter fudge - ZDNet
- E – BRIEF - Internet Censorship and Mandatory Filtering - NSW Parliamentary Library Research Service (pdf)
- COMMENT: Why I want an NBN - Comms Day
- Black, greylists wrong approach to net filtering: Analyst - PC World
- Inaction on disconncet please at root of Aussie ISP lawsuit - Ars Technica
- Rudd will need a stiff upper lip - Perth now
- Cleaning out the net - The Mercury
22 November 2008
- Sex Party sends invites to Australians - balita-dot-ph (philippines)
- Aussie Sex Party reaches over 1,000 members - Livenews
- Is it fair to blame the messenger - Business 24/7 (UAE)
- Week in review: net filters, NBN, CEOs, security and hardware - iTnews
23 November 2008
- Too many holes in Rudd Government internet filter - Daily Telegraph
24 November 2008
- Clive Hamilton the Net Nanny - ON LINE opinion
- Australia Mandatory ISP Level (Internet) Filtering - ABC 7.30 Report (youtube) (transcript)
- UQ Business School IT Manager comments on internet filtering - UQ News
- Cowboys and censors hijack child porn debate - EurekaStreet
25 November 2008
- Greens could block plans for internet filter - News.com.au
- Greens won't back federal plans for internet filters - The Australian
- Threats to net add up - Calgary Herald (canada) Bottom of first page
- Broadband network has narrow view - Bendigo Advertiser
- Minchin slams Labor's NBN backflip - ZDNet MILIF at bottom
- Labor's arbitrary internet filter plan misguided and deeply unpopular - Liberal Party Website
- A toast to a fascinating year on the tech front - Inside Toronto (canada) Third last paragraph.
- Greens won't back gov't plans for internet filters - The Age
26 November 2008
- Government's filtering plans - Breakfast News - ABC (video)
- NBN and the content filter: Two circuses come to town - PC World
- Will data flow restrictions lead to further Net barriers? - Vancouver Sun (canada) Australia's situation mentioned at the bottom of the article
- Aussie government muffs plans for internet filtering - The Register (UK)
- Gen-Yers will use social networks to bypass Internet filter, critic says - PC World
- New Internet Censorship Plan Rattles Public - The Epoch Times
27 November 2008
- Activists target Rudd's net censorship plans - The Age Brisbane Times WA Today
- GetUp! goes after Conroy's net filtering scheme - iTWire
- Net filtering: the pitfalls - NetGuide (NZ)
- Kruddiversary: The internet thanks you for 12 months of achieving nothing - Crikey
- How technology lulls us into statism - WorldNetDaily Fifth paragraph
- GetUp targets Internet censorship - Whirlpool
28 November 2008
- Net filters debated by experts at cyberlaw forum - iTnews
- If You Hate The Idea Of A Filtered Internet, You Should Probably Sign This... - Gizmodo
- Kruddiversary: The internet thanks you for 12 months of achieving nothing - Crikey
- Greens leader slams attempt to censor the Internet - online-casinos.com (denmark)
- Aussies revolt over government's censorship plans - The Inquirer (uk)
- Chinese firewall could be erected in Australia - Amnesty International
- Children's welfare groups slam net filters - Brisbane Times
- A rational banter on filtering - PC World
29 November 2008
- Doing as we're told - Townsville Bulletin
30 November 2008
- Neutering the net is about repression, not protection - The Age
- The internet. Does it belong to the Australia Government? - Australia.TO
- Opposition Grows To Australia Internet Filters - Broadband Reports (us)
01 December 2008
- Internet: the final frontier? - Green Left
- Net porn: Whose rights matter most? - ABCClive Hamilton
- State of the Smart - Sydney Morning Herald Digital Lifenet filtering cited on page 2
- Children's welfare groups slam net filters - The Age
- Aussie content filtering 'frightening', says investigator - Computer World (nz)
- Online Casinos Target of Australian Blacklist Internet Filter - Online Casino Advisory (us)
- Children's welfare groups oppose Australian censorware -- petition to save Australia's Internet - Boing Boing
- Christian Lobby Calls for Bipartisan Support of ISP Filtering - Christian Today
- Net filters don’t work - PC Format (South Africa)
- Child Rights Group calls Web Filtering "Flawed" - TweakTown
- AUSTRALIA: Children's welfare groups slam net filters - UCLA International Institute, AsiaMedia
02 December 2008
- Internet: the final frontier? - Green Left online
- All aboard the freedom ride - The Age
- Panic & Censor - The Monthly Subscribers only
- Australian plans to censor the web to protect children has libertarians up in arms - News-Medical.Net - AZoNetwork
- Australia, la famiglia è il multifiltro della rete - Punto Informatico (Italy)
03 December 2008
- Young Labor calls for an opt-in system - Ban This Url
- Senator snoozes through own Bill debate - News.com.au
- Street protests planned over internet filtering - APCmag
- The tech year in review - Stuff (new zealand) Fourth section in the article
- Senator Conroy questioned on ISP Level Filtering in Question Time - (youtube) - techwiredau
- Australian firewall trials start - BBC (uk)
- Simon Hackett: Broadband Censorship, Copyright and Complaints | BTalk Australia BNET
- Aussies Hit the Streets Over Gov't Internet Filters - Slashdot
04 December 2008
- Anti-content-filtering rebels take to Australia's streets - ComputerWorld (us)
- Protest over Australian plans to filter websites - Herald Sun
- Would InternetWatch Actually WORK? - New Matilda
- Colin Jacobs: Filtering at Odds with Broadband Revolution. - GetUp!
- Questions without Notice: Additional Answers - OpenAustralia.org
05 December 2008
- Internet filter threatens downloads - Herald Sun
- Govt's web censorship will hurt economy, group says - ABC Online
- Govt focuses on e-security efforts - ABC Online
- Clarifying the Next Step in Australia's Net-Censorship Scheme - Slashdot
- ISP filtering a pipe dream: Telstra - The Australian
- Cash floods in for anti-censorship protests - The Age Farm Weekly The Land North Queensland Register Brisbane Times
- Telstra says Net filtering useless, GetUp wants re-think - iTWire
- 'Save the Net' campaign sweeps internet - Ninemsn
- Broadband to regional areas first: Secker - Murray Valley Standard
- Bringing brains to the terrorism struggle - Sydney Morning Herald 3rd page: Relevant because of the type of information that may be targeted by internet filtering
- Australia's Internet filtering too ambitious, doomed to fail - Ars Technica
- Conroy’s Filter Hits Online Business - Netregistry
- Students and the Internet censorship problem - ZDNet (uk)
06 December 2008
- Rudd's staff quit as 24/7 pace takes its toll - The Age
07 December 2008
- Britain's "Great Firewall" set to restrict access to Wikipedia - boingboing
08 December 2008
- Telstra says no to ISP filtering pilot - The Australian IT
- Conroy goes back to school on Internet content filters - iTnews Australia
- BigPond refuses to participate in net filter trials - iTnews Australia
- UK Wikipedia filter a sign of things to come? - iTWire
- Banning fun - Courier Mail
- Your Turn: Screen Play countdown - Sydney Morning Herald Down the page at #4
- Telstra rejects govt internet filtering trials - APC
09 December 2008
- Telstra shuns internet filtering trial - The Age
- Telstra says no to child porn filtering - The Australian IT
- Students to advise on cyber safety in Australia - telecom paper (netherlands) Subscriber only
- Telstra politely Declines to Partake In Conroy's Filter Plans - Gizmodo
- Labor plan to censor internet in shreds - The Age Sydney Morning Herald
- Government launches blog asking for feedback on plans for web filter - Herald Sun
- Policy consultation open to bloggers - The Age
- The 10 sins of Senator Conroy - APC
- Tanner and Conroy go blogging - ARN
- Tanner,Conroy start blogging - ZDNet
- Feedback welcome on Digital Economy Blog - Australia.to
- Internet Filters Proposed for Online Casinos Block Wikipedia - Online Casino Advisory (us)
- Like the computer, Telstra says “no” – to Aussie Net filtering - ITWire
- Telstra snubs filter trial - Courier Mail
- Show Trial: Conroy's ISP Trial Flawed - The Greens: Scott Ludlam
- Internet filtering rebels hit Australia’s streets - Computer World (nz)
- Feeling the love for Telstra - PC Authority
- Christian, family groups voice support for ISP filtering - PC Authority
- Web filter minister not afraid of feedback - Courier Mail
10 December 2008
- Proposed internet filter takes another hit - Smart Company
- ISPs Give Rudd Government Two Finger Salute - SmartHouse
- Australian Sceme to Censor Online Casinos Falters - Online Casino Advisory
- Senator Conroy welcomes submissions on new blog - iTnews
- Australia plans to filter Web content - International Herald Tribune (US)
- Govt's blogging foray sparks controversy - ABC
- Hundreds protest net filtering on Conroy’s new blog - iTnews
- Brit Censors Back Off Wikipedia Ban - Broadband DSL Reports (us)
- Tear down Australia’s Great Firewall Reef - Spiked (uk)
- Liberal tyranny on the World Wide Web - Spiked (uk)
- ‘Digital Natives’ take on censorious Kevin - Spiked (uk)
- Australia plans to test Web filter - International Herald Tribune
11 December 2008
- Conroy silent on web censorship trial - The Australian
- Australia rallies to “Stop the Clean Feed” - Global Voices Online
- Australian Govt Backing Away from Plans to Censor the Internet? - Zeropaid
- Substance and spin over AFP's child porn sting - iTwire
- Conroy congratulates Police child porn crackdown - iTwire
- Policing essential for cyber-safety - Senator Stephen Conroy - Australia.to
- Bloggers pan Government's 'e-democracy' bid - Sydney Morning Herald The Age
- Tell Conroy exactly what you think - Sydney Morning Herald
- Saving the Internets - PC World
- Queenslanders among 19 arrests in child porn ring - Courier Mail
- Aussie ISPs refuse to join government's filtering test - ars technica
- Australians Want the Internet Raw - Blogcritics Magazine
12 December 2008
- Proposed Web Filter Criticized in Australia - The New York Times (us)
- New hurdle for net censorship - Sydney Morning Herald
- Net filtration 101 - and why it can't protect Australia - SearchNetworking - TechTarget ANZ
- Australia faces refusal to censor online casinos - InterGame Online
- Industry baffled over clean-feed internet pilot - TechWorld
- Australian government plans state website blocking system to tackle illegal content - ComputerWeekly.com (us)
- Australian Sex Party vs Kevin Rudd - p2pnet news (us)
- Australische isp's weigeren webfilter - Webwereld (netherlands)
- Grote Australische providers weigeren netwerk te filteren - tweakers.net (netherlands)
- Minchin also praises AFP on pwning child porn purveyors - iTWire
- Policing essential for cyber-safety - Webnewswire.com
- US and Australia spurn web porn filters - TechRadar (uk)
- Net firms rebuff filtering plan - BBC
- Australian censorship plan 'in tatters' - Legalbrief (south africa)
- Conroy's Christmas TV crusade: may it be digitally merry - iTWire
- Australian ISPs Reject Internet-Filtering Plan - IT Business Edge
- Internet Filtering Protests - SBS (youtube)
- ISPs not behind Government's filter - Bloomtools
13 December 2008
- Digital Liberty Coalition protests against web filter held across Australia - news.com.au
- Protestors rally against internet censorship - The West
- IN PICTURES: hundreds protest govt net censorship - APC
- Brisbane protesters rally against web filter plans - ABC
- Australia to Test Web Filter to Block Banned Content - New York Times
- Proposed Web Filter Criticized in Australia - Ocala.com
- Australian government plans to filter cyber use have been rebuffed by internet service providers - Radio New Zealand
- Protests make clean-feed Internet a mess for govt - CIO
- Australia Says No to Internet Censorship - Slashdot
- FCC cancels meeting for free Internet vote - CNET (us)
14 December 2008
- Internet censorship won't benefit cyber safety, protestors say - WA Today
- Net firms rebuff filtering plan - Herald De Paris (france)
- Are Rudd and Conroy planning to create a new crime of "accessing unwanted content". - Australia.to
- Controlling Pornography - ABC Radio National - Rear Vision
15 December 2008
- Net filter tipped to spark sex shop boom - Stuff (nz)
- Australia falls behind on internet safety: ACBC - CathNews Please note the incorrect facts that can be found at Libertus.net, in particular other countries "already" having filtering.
- Australia to test Internet filtering (read: censorship) this month - CrunchGear (us)
- Protests make clean-feed Internet a mess for govt - CIO
- Australia: Reflections from ‘No Clean Feed' rallies - GlobalVoices
- Oz will test web filter to block banned content - Times of India (india)
- Andrew Keen: Community self-policing is the way to tackle internet child porn - The Independent (uk)
- In pictures: Hundreds protest proposed internet filters - iTnews
- Australia, in piazza contro i filtri - Punto Informatico (italy)
- Australia to Test Internet Filter to Block Banned Content - Star News
- Internet filtering scheme 'a waste of money' - news.com.au
- Oz government told to block malware - Security Watch
- Government net filter ‘will not work’ says online security researcher - Science Network WA
16 December 2008
- Internet filter protesters aim for Canberra - The Australian
- Australia sees rallies against Internet filtering plan - IT World (us)
- Protest rally against Australian government plan to censor broadband - BetaNews
- Australian Bishop: Internet Speed Isn't Everything - Catholics.net
- Protestors hit the streets over Australian Internet Censorship Proposals - ZeroPaid
- Internet content filtering – time for the great debate - iTWire
17 December 2008
- Exclusive: White hat hacker tears apart flaws in Aussie net filtering scheme - BanThisUrl not entirely mainstream media
- NetAlert filters not given a chance: Webroot - iTnews
- The lies of the internet censors: Your. Filter. Won't. Work. - Crikey
- Australian censorship plan opposed - Legalbrief
- The Australian government e-democracy trial unleashes a blogging flood - Ovum
- Impact of Net filtering overstated, claims agent - Computer World (nz)
- Dr Philip Nitschke launches 'flawless' euthanasia device - Adelaide Now Last few paragraphs
- Aussie net filtering scheme has serious security risks - The Inquirer (uk)
18-19 December 2008
- Federal Government's Mandatory Internet Filtering Proposal - Netspace - SURVEY HERE
- Telstra Encouraged to Demonstrate Corporate Responsibility on Internet Filtering - Christian Today
- Australia's web censorship plan could threaten freedom of speech - The Royal Gazette (Bermuda)
- Proposed Australian ISP Filters are Security Holes - TweakTown (us)
- Arts council pulls the wool, hat and trench coat over our eyes - Sydney Morning Herald Brisbane Times
- Comments, corrections, clarifications, and c*ckups - Crikey
- The great porn war - Sydney Morning Herald
- Telstra leads the charge against Oz government's plans to censor the Internet - TelecomTV (uk)
- Simpsons and sensibility - ABC
- Why censorship won't work - AdelaideNow
- Censorship of Internet Resumes in China - Top Tech News (us) Towards the end
- Beijing blocking some websites again, say experts - Strait Times Australia mentioned around middle
- Government yet to confirm participants of web filtering trial - news.com.au
- Aussie System Admin Guild says NO to net filtering - iTWire
- OK, OK... now online child abuse laws are getting scary - LiveNews
- Telstra to Aussie Gov’t: We Won’t Filter Internet - VoN (us)
20 December 2008
- Bloggers cry "foul" as web censor ring tightens - The Australian
22 December 2008
- Internet filtering plan may extend to peer-to-peer traffic, says Stephen Conroy - News.com.au
- Web filter plan goes further than first thought - Courier Mail
- Rudd Government's internet filter extended to peer-to-peer - Adelaide Now
- Internet filter plan may extend further, says Broadband Minister - Herald Sun
- Conroy expands ISP filter tests to examine P2P and BitTorrent traffic - iTnews
- Web filter plan extends further - The Australian
- Minister Conroy on: Promoting a civil and confident society online - DBCDE blog
- Oz net censorship apparatus to target BitTorrent - The Register (uk)
- Thailand’s blacklist leaked on the internet - BanThisUrl
- Security Flaws In Aussie Net Filter Exposed - Slashdot (us)
- Great Firewall of Australia: What’s not mentioned makes it even more scary - The Inquisitr
23 December 2008
- Internet censor scheme 'flawed' - The Age
- Australia, a Country with a Moronic Government, to Block BitTorrent - Gizmodo (us)
- Australia's Slippery Slope Of Censorship Gets Even Slicker With Plans To Filter Bittorrent - techdirt
- Internet filters won't work: ISP - ABC
- Fatal flaws in website censorship plan, says report - Sydney Morning Herald
- Government rejects negative internet filter report - Courier Mail
- Aussie web censorship plan flawed - Fudzilla
- Conroy delays ISP trial of Internet content filters - iTnews
- Australia's 'Net Filter Plan Gets Worse - Broadband DSLReports (us)
- Conroy making valiant effort, then mentions BitTorrent - PC Authority
- Govt report highlights issues with internet censorship plan - TelecomPaper (us)
- Australia to block all P2P? - AfterDawn
- Opposition scores win over ISP filter report release? - iTWire
- Internet Filtering Plan May Extend to P2P - International Business Times
- Australia's ISP Filtering Pilot Could Affect P2Ps - ExtremeTech (us)
- Australian Internet "filter" will censor peer-to-peer traffic too - TelecomTV (us)
- Australian ISPs set to block P2P and Bit Torrent - BroadbandGenie (uk)
- Filtering in Oz: Australia's Foray into Internet Censorship, Brooklyn Law School - Social Science Research Network (us)
- Web and P2P Censorship Plan Flawed (Sky News) - Sky news (youtube) video
24 December 2008
- Australia to test Internet filter next month - AFP
- Internet censorship technology 'flawed' - Ninemsn
- Internet filter 'technically impossible' - The Australian
- Net filtering trial delay 'another Govt bungle' - ABC
- Minchin says Govt needs internet filter to work - The Australian IT
- Last call: Conroy blog turns off comments today - PC Authority
- Aussie Internet Filtering Plan to Include P2P Traffic - ZeroPaid (us)
- Aussie Gov't Ponders Killing BitTorrent - Tom's Guide (us)
- Conroy, don’t keep the Internet filtering trials secret: Minchin - iTWire
- Fatal Flaws in Aussie web censor plans - Stuff (nz)
- Update: Internet Censorship Trials in Oz - Zapto (us)
- Aussie government's own report trashes 'Net filtering - ars technica (us)
- Australia to test filtering for Internet next month - The Peninsula (Qatar)
- Australia May Block All P2P Traffic - P2P Weblog (us)
- Internet: Aussie's semi-secret internet filtering test: on or on later? - The Chief Officers' Network (us)
- Internet filter trials delayed, P2P now included! - iTWire (us)
- Aussie government defends Internet censorship technology - The Inquirer (uk)
- CHRISTMAS SHOCK: Australian government to trial P2P filters - APC
- Government defends internet censorship technology - Brisbane Times
- Australia considers strict Internet filter - Daily News (us)
- Aussie Net Filtering Trial Delayed - SecuObs.com (france)
25 December 2008
- The Child Porn Lie (And Other Hits) Violet Blue - San Francisco Chronicle (us) Mention in first article and #1 towards the bottom.
27 December 2008
- Uproar in Australia over plan to block Web sites - Associated Press (us)
- Australian Government to Begin Filtering P2P Content - Overclockers Club (us)
- BetFair Blamed for Exposing Gambling to Children - Gambling 911 (us)
- Australia: Growing opposition to Labor’s Internet censorship - World Socialist Website (us)
- Internet site blocking goes forward in Australia - tech.blorge (us)
- Uproar in Australia over plan to block Web sites - WZTV Fox17 (us)
- Uproar In Australia Over Plan To Block Websites - HardOCP (us)
- Australian Federal Government’s Internet Censorship Plans - HostSearch (us)
- Australian Web and BitTorrent Filtering Scheme Delayed - TorrentFreak (us)
- Uproar in Australia over plan to block websites - USA Today (us)
- Uproar in Australia Over Plan to Block Web Sites - The New York Times (us)
- Australian plan to block websites prohibited by the government sparks anger - The Canadian Press (canada)
28 December 2008
- Uproar in Australia over plan to block Web sites - International Herald Tribune (us)
- Caught out by net plan - Herald Sun
29 December 2008
- Net filter plan is branded draconian - The Canberra Times
- Australia preparing to block access to 10,000 websites - Australia.to
- Australia Net Filtering Plan Delayed - Broadband DSLReports (us)
- Horrors cope and happy winners - Independent Weekly
- Uproar as Great Aussie Firewall threatens internet freedom - The New Zealand Herald (nz)
- The not-so “Great Aussie Firewall” - ComputerWorld (us)
30/31 December 2008
- UK Eyes Website Rating System, Filters - Broadband DSLReports (us)
- Australian uproar over plan to block Web sites - Cape Cod Times (us)
- AP Technology NewsBrief at 1:54 p.m. EST - TMCnet.com (us) Midway through article
- FCC chairman revises wireless broadband plan - CNet (us)
- Aussie Lawmakers, Critics Clash Over Web Filtering - Tech News World (us)
- Do Web filters work? - Asiaone.com (asia)
- You Can't Filter The Internet Mr Burnham - PC Mag (us)
2009
02 January 2009
- Australia Internet Filtering Plan Will Be Mandatory For Everyone - No Opt Out - Zeropaid (us)
- Uproar in Australia over plan to block Web sites - Fosters Daily Democrat (us)
- 'Great Aussie Firewall' set to go live - 3 News (nz)
- 'Aussie firewall' may slow internet speeds - Internet NZ - Radio NZ (nz)
04 January 2009
- Filtering in Oz: Australia's Foray into Internet Censorship by Derek E. Bambauer [Brooklyn Law School, Legal Studies Paper] - Tech News Review
05 January 2009
- US dumps unpopular internet filter plan - APC
- Weather too hot for web filter - Herald Sun
- China vows new crackdown on Google - News.com.au
- Australian Internet Censorship Plan Meeting Heavy Criticism - Infopackets (us)
- Internet censorship and the revolt of the masses - Ovum (us)
- British Police set to step up hacking of home PCs - The Australian IT
06 January 2009
- Opinion - why Kevin Rudd's internet censorship plan will not work - Adelaide Now
07 January 2009
- Internet censorship expands - Sydney Star Observer
- 2009: Year of the Thought Criminal - Daily Tech (us)
09 January 2009
- The world smirks at Conroy's censorship plan - Crikey
10 January 2009
- Analyst: China Internet move part of global trend - CNN (us) Halfway down the page
12 January 2009
- China tightens web, fearing slowdown and Tiananmen anniversary - The Age
- Search for Pornographic Material on Rise; Children are most Vulnerable - Yemen Post
- Uproar in Australia over Internet plan - Baltimore Sun
- Comments, corrections, clarifications, and c*ckups - Crikey
- Industry peers slam govt file sharing filter - Network World (us)
- Is Thailand a new enemy of the Internet? - Reporters without borders (us)
- Australian Government’s plans for net censorship foiled - EngageMedia (us)
13 January 2009
- Conroy cans Coonan's free net filtering scheme - iTWire
14 January 2009
- US prof undermines foundations of Aussie firewall - The Register (uk)
- Aussie Firewall Meets US Extinguisher - The Escapist
- Filtering won’t deliver for Aussie kids - EFA
- Vodafone's Child Porn Filter Blocks Innocent Czech Tech Blogs - Mediashift (us)
- Global Net Censorship in 2009: For The Children, for the Rightsholders - EFF (us)
15 January 2009
- Sex and IT unite to stop Australian net censorship - PC World (nz)
16 January 2009
- Qld police help bust global child porn ring - ABC
- Aussie cops bust global porn ring - News
- German Minister Announces Plans for Mandatory Web Filtering - ZeroPaid (us)
19 January 2009
- Coalition says Labor changing 98% broadband NBN promise - iTWire
- A chat with Fake Stephen Conroy - ZDNet
- Conroy presses on with flawed policy - The Australian
22 January 2009
- Big brother filter plan insults parents - Sydney Morning Herald
- Why national Internet filters are pointless - The Inquirer (uk)
- Closing the net - SX News
23 January 2009
- So Conroy's Internet filter won't block political speech, eh? - Crikey
24 January 2009
- Hey, Senator - leave us discerning viewers of pornography alone - Sydney Morning Herald
26 January 2009
- Government dodges questions on axed NetAlert web filter funding - News.com.au
- Filtering Filth will not tangle the net - Sydney Morning Herald Writer is Jim Wallace of the Australian Christian Lobby (ACL), as well as report information produced by Clive Hamilton - Both were part of the lobbying groups that originally pushed for the pro-filtering policy.
27 January 2009
- Internet filtering trial date is close - Australian IT
- Big brother filter plan insults parents - Canberra Times
- Netspace Customers Say No! to ISP Filtering - Netspace
28/29 January 2009
- Who supports compulsory Internet filtering, exactly? - Crikey
- Filtering won’t deliver for Aussie kids - Online Opinion
- Comments, corrections, clarifications, and c*ckups - Crikey Last letter.
- myKP begins unlimited broadband trials - iTnews Eighth last paragraph.
- ISP Customers Opposed To Net Censorship - lifehacker
- Netspace customers rail against ISP filtering - Whirlpool
- Federal Government's Mandatory Internet Filtering Proposal - Netspace
- Mandatory internet filtering - ABC lifematters (mp3)
- ISP Level filtering - iiNet
- ISPs clustered for filtering trials - Australian IT
30 January 2009
- Labor's 'deafening' silence as web censorship trials delayed - Sydney Morning Herald
03 February 2009
- Net filter 'will give parents a false sense of security' - ABC
- Confused filtering policy won't deliver - ABC
- Christian Lobby: The New Lions Of Clean Feed - New Matilda
- EFA board member sent death threats from pro-filter lobbyist - Websinthe
05 February 2009
- Electronic Frontiers Australia member Geordie Guy receives death threat over web filter plan - news.com.au
- OPINION Bernadette McMenamin: Why Australia needs to trial net filters - The Australian IT
06 February 2009
- New Zealand bolts net filtering regime into place - The Register (uk)
- Internet not full of pedos, the statistical edition - Boing Boing (us)
- The Economic Cost of Internet Censorship in Australia - The Inquistr (us)
- Blanket ban on the internet a folly - Australian IT
09 February 2009
- Australian Minister talks Internet Censorship as Victoria burns - The Insquistr
- ISP filters still a mystery - Australian IT
10 February 2009
- How do we make the net a safe place for kids? - The Age
- Obama could impact Canadian net neutrality laws - Reclaim the Media (us) Last three paragraphs.
- Conroy touts safer net as critics continue to lambast net filtering - iTWire (us)
- Education, not filtering, the answer: iiNet - Australian IT
- "Scrap the internet filter, give the cash to bushfire survivors" - APC
- Internet censorship widening - Korea Times (Korea)
11 February 2009
- Green light for ISP filtering trials - Australian IT
- Optus and iiNet snubbed in web filter trials - News.com.au
- Six ISPs in Australian web filter trial - Courier Mail
- Conroy announces first filterers and not a big one in sight - ITWire
- Conroy's paternalism misses target - ZDNet General critique of Government's 'cyber-safety' policy
12 February 2009
- Web censorship trials to exclude large ISPs - The Age
- ISP filtering gathers pace - Australian IT
- ISP filtering not scalable: SAGE - Australian IT
- Filtering out reality? - ZDNet
- Big ISPs snub internet filter trial - ABC
- iPrimus to start filtering in April - ZDNet
- Internet filtering pilot announced: Six ISPs on board - ARN
- Six providers enter internet filtering trial - Canberra Times
- Companies sign up to internet filtering plan - Sydney Morning Herald
- ISP Filtering To Go Ahead Despite Industry Reservations - SmartHouse
13 February 2009
- Primus compares compulsory web filtering to China - News.com.au
- Filtering 'dangerous', says Obama strategist - MIS Financial Review
- iiNet, Conroy in 11th hour filtering talks - MIS Financial Review
- Content filter pilots debunk critics - TechWorld
- Filters an insult to democracy - Australian IT
- Internet filters for idiots - APCmag
- iPrimus Internet Filter Trial To Be 'Opt-In' - Gizmodo
- Primus lashes out against internet filtering - SmartCompany
- Obama's web strategist to advise Rudd - Sydney Morning Herald
- No opt-out of filtered Internet - Computerworld
- Content filter pilots debunk critics - Computerworld
- Content filter pilots debate critics - ARN
16 February 2009
- Conroy announces filter-trial ISPs and clams shut - Crikey
- Six ISPs to participate in Internet Filter Trial - Image and Data Manager
- Web doesn't belong to net libertarians - Australian IT Clive Hamilton
- Net filter plan nurtures 'open source government' - ABC (Scott Ludlam)
17 February 2009
- Backwards from the backwater - Sydney Morning Herald Cites internet filtering on second page
- Filtering doesn't breach free speech - Australian IT Stephen Conroy
- Professor - Unfiltered internet has no place in a democracy - Zeropaid
- Senator Conroy keeps telling the same old story - Somebody Think of the Children
- The Australian government’s new Internet filter program sets a worrying precedent for the democratic world - The Comment Factory
- Would the extreme cyber-libertarians please stand up? - EFA
- EFA Responds to Professor over Net Filtering - ZeroPaid
18 February 2009
- Does Conroy's FUD make a Ludd of Rudd? - ZDNet
20 February 2009
- Is cloistered Conroy ruining it for Labor? - ARN
- Australia's Save the Internet Campaign Continues - Gambling911
21 February 2009
- Internet filtering, reasons to oppose it - Green Left
23 February 2009
- Costello's hopes should have burned out after sermon - The Australian Second last paragraph
- Internet users don't want to be filtered - iTWire
- Australian Minister confirms legal content may be blocked by Censorship Regime - The Inquisitr
24 February 2009
- Row over web blacklist - Australian IT
- Internet black-list revelations raise further questions about Labor's mandatory filtering - Liberal Party Press Release
- Web filter debate descends into slinging match at Kickstart Forum 2009 - News.com.au
- Putting the filtering cart before the horse - ZDNet
- Conroy confesses: web filtering will hit 'other content' - Crikey
- Emotions run high over ISP filtering - Government News
- Australian Internet Filtering Debate at Kickstart 2009 - Midnight Update Video
25 February 2009
- The Trial Begins - Newmatilda.com
- Aussie internet-net will be drawn wider - The Register
- Small ISPs reject call to filter out child abuse sites - The Register (uk) Australia mentioned towards end.
- Australia's net filter plan under attack - FutureGov (Singapore)
26 February 2009
- Web censorship plan heads towards a dead end - Sydney Morning Herald
- Inconsistencies emerge in Web blacklist - Legalbrief Today (South Africa) Subscription required.
27 February 2009
- Australia's Internet Censorship Plan Collapsing - Broadband DSL Reports (us)
- Growing Senate opposition to internet filter - ABC
- Australian Censorship Scheme Gets Blocked By Opposition Leaders - Gizmodo
- Australian web censorship plan doomed - Stuff (New Zealand)
- Xenophon speaks out against Internet content filtering - ARN
- Senate poses tough hurdle for internet filtering plan - ABC
01 March 2009
- Fence sitting IIA refuses to speak out against Internet filtering - iTWire
02 March 2009
- Australia's clean feed: Yes or no? - PC Authority
- Revealed: ISPs detail their Aussie net filter trials - IT News
- Survey suggests no mandate for internet filter - iTWire
03 March 2009
- Comments, corrections, clarifications and c*ckups - Crikey Towards end
- Clean feed filtered out - Australian IT
04 March 2009
- Teachers attack NSW DET filter - ZD Net
- Comments, corrections, clarifications and c*ckups - Crikey Third
- Auckland’s Watchdog helps filter Aussie internet - Computer World (New Zealand)
06 March 2009
- Police admit child porn fight unwinnable - ABC
09 March 2009
- iPrimus could beat Government to Internet filters - iTnews
- Netspace customers against filtering - SmartCompany
11 March 2009
- Freedom on the global internet still a pipe dream - CNet Australia cited at bottom of article
13 March 2009
- Conroy requests faith in net filter - iTnews
- Internet filtering ineffective in fight against terror - Secure Computing
- ACMA takes aim at Whirlpool, supplier - Australian IT
15 March 2009
- Conroy's clean feed - ABC Radio National
16 March 2009
- Greedy ISPs kept from filtering trial - ZDNet
- Trust Politicians Begs Communications Minister - SmartHouse
17 March 2009
- Time to turn the page on net filtering - Online Opinion
- Banned hyperlinks could cost you $11,000 a day - Sydney Morning Herald
- BLACKLIST: Government cracks down on Whirlpool.net.au - APCMag
- Could the clean feed bypass parliament? - New Matilda (Scott Ludlam)
- Great Aussie firewall claims first victim - The Register (uk)
- Australia's internet censor bares its gums - ITExaminer
- Web watchdog changes tack after blacklist leak - Australian IT
- Australia censors Wikileaks page - Wired
- ‘Embarrassed’ ACMA forced to change ways - ComputerWorld
- Australia secretly censors Wikileaks press release and Danish Internet censorship list - Prison Planet (us)
- Australia Internet Censors Fine Site for Link to Pro-Life Page With Abortion Pics - LifeNews (us)
- Australia Threatens $11,000 Fines For Unapproved Linking - WebProNews (us)
- Australia's Blacklisted Hyperlinks to Cost Webmasters $11,000 a Day - MaximumPC (us)
- Australian Government adds Wikileaks to banned website list - TechRadar (uk)
- Australian web filter threatens AUS$11,000 a day fine for hosting banned link - SC Magazine (uk)
18 March 2009
- Wikileaks pages added to Australian internet blacklist - Slashdot
- Activists use Wikipedia to bait blacklist regulator - iTnews
- Australia's Internet filter ruled by a single bureaucrat - Computerworld
- Rundle: there is no bigger issue than net censorship - Crikey
- First rule of Internet censorship: Hide the block list - Ars technica (us)
- Australia's Internet Freedom Debated - Online-Casinos (us)
- Australia censors Wikileaks page - Index on censorship (us)
- ACMA's blacklists a bigot battleground - Techworld
- Australia Bans Wikileaks - Anorak (uk)
- Net censorship update - Atomic MPC
- Google soon to be banned in Australia under draconian censorship laws - The Inquistr (uk)
19 March 2009
- Breaking news: ACMA blacklist leaked - iTnews
- Australian Government includes Poker sites, YouTube videos on censorship list - The Inquistr (us)
- ACMA's censorship black list to emerge - Atomic MPC
- ACMA blacklist leaked to Wikileaks - Whirlpool
- Wikileak posts list of internet filter-blocked sites - Courier Mail
- Government's internet censorship blacklist leaked - LiveNews (us)
- ACMA blacklist leaked on the internet - Australian IT
- Wikileaks posts list of internet filter-blocked sites - Herald Sun
- Internet filter blacklist leaked on web - ABC
- Leaked Australian blacklist reveals banned sites - Sydney Morning Herald
- Betfair banned by ACMA: CEO furious, tens of millions at risk - ComputerWorld
- Millions may have visited popular websites on leaked ACMA blacklist - News.com.au
- Web blacklist outcry: dentist, tuckshop on official 'hate list' - Sydney Morning Herald
- Anthony Pillion casts doubt on ACMA blacklist leak - iTnews
- Leaked blacklist irresponsible, innacurate: Conroy - ABC
- Claimed blacklist spreads on internet - ZD Net
- 'Leaked blacklist of banned websites' was not from ACMA, says Stephen Conroy - news.com.au
- Doubts thrown on authenticity of Australian internet blacklist (Update) - The Tech herald (us)
- Secret internet filter blacklist posted on web - SBS World News
- Australia Giving Heavy Fines For Certain Outbound Links - WebProNews
- 'Banned websites list' not from ACMA, says Stephen Conroy - Herald Sun
- Stilgherrian Speaks on ACMA Blacklist Leak - ABC (youtube) Video
- Betfair banned by ACMA - Network World (us)
- Australia's Web blacklist leaked - Network World (us)
- Wikileaks taken offline after publishing Australia's banned websites - Guardian News (uk)
- Aussie Internet Blacklist Has Gray Areas - Forbes (us)
- Betfair Banned: CEO Outraged - Gambling911.com (us)
- Pro-Life Website Banned on Australian Government's Internet Blacklist - LifeSiteNews.com (us)
- Australian Government Plans to Ban Popular Poker Sites - Bluff (us)
- Great Firewall of Chin... Australia! - Short News (us)
- Gambling sites included in Aussie 'blacklist' - Casino Times (us)
- Aussie Banned Sites List: Just A Leak? - Portalit news (us)
- Australia: Moving to Block Internet Poker? - Part Time Poker News (us)
- ACMA swings the ban hammer - Perth Independent Media Centre
- Aussie Internet Controversy Reignited by leaked blacklist - Recent Poker (us)
- Torrent Sites End Up on Aussie Blacklist - Torrent Freak (us)
- Australia's BlackList Leaked? Online Poker & Poker News Sites Are On It - Poker Pages (us)
- Leak reveals Internet filtering blacklist open to abuse - iTWire (us)
- Internet list publication grossly irresponsible - Conroy - Australia.to
- Shocker! ACMA's Blacklist Leaked - Gizmodo
- Conroy says list is fake - The Daily
- Australian media authority plugs potential leaks - ZDNet (uk)
- Govt's banned sites list leaked online - CNet
- Website blacklist leaked on internet - Whitsunday Times
- Web blacklist 'a fake' says Conroy - SBS World News
- Wikipedia yanks ACMA censored link - P2PNET.net (us)
- WikiLeaks Exposes Australian Web Blacklist - Wired (US)
- Australian Government attempts to ban online poker sites - Boston Poker Examiner (us)
- ACMA's website blacklist leaking seen as a disappointing move - PC World
20 March 2009
- Blacklist leak sets back internet plan - The Canberra Times [List leak casts doubt on net censorship plan The Age]
- Rudd's internet blacklist includes dentist, kennel, tuckshop - Courier Mail
- Internet blacklist is wrong - ACMA - Sky News Online
- Internet filter list of porn exposed - Australian IT
- Conroy's climate of fear - iTWire
- Australia, smascherata la lista nera - Punto Informatico (italy) Italian language
- The coming censorship wars - Technology Review: Published by MIT
- "Wikileaks to Conroy: Go after our source and we will go after you." - Wikileaks
- ACMA's blacklist just got read all over - Crikey
- Dr Dennis Jensen on net censorship - Tech World Dr Dennis Jensen MP, Member for Tangney (WA), BAppSc(RMIT), MSc(Melb), PhD(Monash)
- Joyce: Internet filtering off the agenda in NZ - The National Business Review (new zealand)
- Australia blocks Web site with leaked info - Metro International (us)
- Blacklist leak: ACMA not cut out to play cyber-cop - Crikey
- Crikey says - Crikey
- Unleashed: web of secrecy - ABC
- ISP filtering plans thwarted by leaked URL list - Digital Media
- Australian ISPs to block online poker? - Online Gambling News (us)
- Aussies want to ban popular sites - IT Examiner
- Wikileaks to Conroy: We Will Go After You - Computerworld
- yARN: What possessed them to leak the list? - ARN
- Wikileaks threatens Conroy with criminal prosecution - iTWire
- Wikileaks tell Aus censorship minister to rack off - The Register (uk)
- Australian Internet 'blacklist' prompts concern - USA Today (us)
- Australian government to 'block' gay websites - Pink News (uk)
- Wikileaks to Conroy: We Will Go After You - Networld World (us)
- Portions of Wikileaks, Wikipedia blocked in Australia - Wikinews (us)
- Australia's Internet Blacklist Revealed - WebProNews (us)
- Australia Looks to Ban Online Poker Sites - Online Poker Website (us)
- Australian Internet Block Subjects Online Casinos to Whimsy - Online Casino Advisory (us)
- Dentist, tuckshop cited on website blacklist - Stuff (nz)
- Leaked Australian blacklist reveals banned sites - Prison Planet (us)
- Australian Internet blacklist prompts concern - San Jose Mercury News (us)
21 March 2009
- Net filter smacks of Big Brother - The Age
- Australian Internet `blacklist' prompts concern - The Associated Press
- GetUp campaign against net censorship - Sydney Morning Herald
- Doubts expressed over ACMA blacklist leak - CRN Australia
- Campaign against net censorship - Central Queensland News
- Campaign against net censorship builds - Brisbane Times
- Canberra filtering rally loses sight of the need to protect children - Australian Christian Lobby Jim Wallace; Note facts presented are out of context. The leaked list cannnot be neutrally verified to be real or fake. Update: Senator Conroy has recently commented the list is most likely genuine.
22 March 2009
- Scared men wear secrecy veil: Terry Sweetman - Courier Mail
- Labor's blog-watch plan hits Whirlpool of dissent - The Age
- What the Leaked Australian Internet Blacklist Says About Censorship - The Uber Review
- GetUp to Launch TV Ad Against Internet Censorship - The Epoch Times (us)
- Wikileaks and the Australian Internet Blacklist - Tech news World (us)
- Internet 'blacklist' prompts concern - The Calgary Sun (canada)
- Internet: don't link, don't leak - Online Opinion
23 March 2009
- ACMA blacklist proves too popular for Wikileaks - CRN Australia
- Child porn users warned of new police weapon - ABC
- iiNet pulls out of net censorship trials - Sydney Morning Herald
- This Is Not A Club We Want To Join - New Matilda
- Yet another ACMA internet blacklist springs a leak - Crikey
- The Tangled Web - New Matilda
- Banned poker sites make joker of ACMA's Internet blacklist - CIO
- iiNet pulls out of Govt 'censorship' trials - ABC
- Minchin attacks internet filtering trial after iiNet pulls out - ABC
- iiNet quits Conroy's filter trial - ZDNet
- iiNet pulls out of "fundamentally flawed" filtering trial - iTWire
- When a vacuum becomes vacuous - ZDNet
- Ceci n'est pas une blacklist - ZDNet
- iiNet quits Government web filter trials - News.com.au
- iiNet pulls out of Australian censorship trial - Slashdot
- iiNet withdraws internet filter trial application - iTnews
- Australia's Controversial Internet Blacklist and Filter Proposal Revealed - Finding Dulcinea
- Australian government agency blacklists a dentist office website? - TG Daily
- Conroy orders surveillance on Whirlpool - APCmag
- The Black List is Loose - Radio Adelaide - Breakfast with Peter Godfrey Audio
24 March 2009
- ISP pulls out of internet filter trial - Australian IT
- Internet provider shuns filter trial - The Age
- ISPs show support for internet filter trial - ARN
- iiNet not happy with gov filtering - Sky News
- New 'ACMA blacklist' leak claims banned websites list was recently edited - news.com.au
- Hacked filter reveals blacklist in 30 seconds - iTnews
- More doubts surface over enforceability of ACMA's blacklist - PC World
- Questions about Internet filter trial credibility - ABC Radio (The World Today - MP3 recording)
- New web blacklist leaked online - news.com.au
- Unfiltered content brings dollars for ISPs - Brisbane Times
- It certainly looks like the ACMA blacklist, eh Senator Conroy? - Crikey
- ISP: Internet filter trial has been misconstrued - ARN
- Opposition says Government is botching internet filter trial - ABC Radio (AM Program - MP3 recording)
25 March 2009
- DBCDE wouldn't agree to blind filter trial: iiNet - iTnews
- Rudd Net filter 'a shambles' - news.com.au
- Filter will block gay, fetish websites - Sydney Star Observer
- yARN: Sink or swim? Time for Conroy to take a leaf out of Tanner’s book on ICT - ARN
- ISPs 'profit' from lack of filter - ZDNet
- Great Firewall of China snares YouTube - The Age
- Govt undeterred by blacklist leaks, Conroy says latest leak "close" to the real list - ARN ComputerWorld
- Stephen Conroy says leaked list of banned websites 'seems like ACMA's blacklist' - news.com.au
- Police raid Wikileaks.de domain owner Theodor Reppe's home over 'censorship lists' - news.com.au
- "Ditch compulsory Net filter - it's a botch", said SAGE-AU - CRN
- URL blacklist 'creep' possible: Conroy - TechWorld
- Democracy rules: from Internet censorship to secret Government banned websites hitlists - The Royal Gazette (Bermuda)
- Govt internet filter a shambles: Minchin - Ninemsn
- Australia Blacklist May Cost Election - Gambling911 (us)
26 March 2009
- Website watchdog ACMA says it wasn't behind German police raid of Wikileaks.de - news.com.au
- Don't mention the filtering trial! - iTWire
- Two thirds of ACMA blacklist out of date - Crikey
- Blacklist snares Bill Henson fan site - Sydney Morning Herald
- Child porn needs to be fought: Conroy - Sydney Morning Herald
- Net filter to block only restricted content - ComputerWorld
- Internet Filtering on ABC's Q&A, Senator Conroy - Q&A Video - available as wmv/mp4, as well as transcript
- Aussie classification site hacked in censorship protest - The Register (UK)
- Australia says Web blacklist combats child porn - ITWorld
- Hackers Mess Up Australian Classification Site - PortalIT
27 March 2009
- Black lists needed in child porn fight says Communications Minister Stephen Conroy - news.com.au
- Conroy Proves His Ability To Duck And Weave On Q&A - Gizmodo
- Hackers hijack govt classification site - Livenews.com.au
- Net filter to block 'only restricted content' - Computerworld (NZ)
- Hackers Deface Aussie Censorship Board's Website - Wired (US)
- OFLC web site hacked - Network World (US)
- Conroy admits blacklist error, blames 'Russian mob' - Sydney Morning Herald
- Optus remains Conroy's last big filtering hope - iTnews
- 'Technical error' behind Henson website black-listing - ABC
- Conroy faces the filtering music on Q&A - Electronic Frontiers Australia
- Conroy’s really bad week #347: Classification Board website hacked - Crikey
- Censorship opponents slam website hack - iTnews
- 'Having a look at it is not a crime' - The Canberra Times
- Conroy gaffe defeats purpose of net filter policy - iTnews
- Australia says Web blacklist combats child porn - The Associated Press
- Optus: We want in on Internet filtering trial - ARN
- A blacklist for websites backfires in Australia - TIME (us)
- Australian Internet filtering scheme flawed - Online-casinos.com
- 'Caching error' caused Henson blacklisting - Syndey Morning Herald
- 'Having a look at it is not a crime' - Canberra Times
- Australian classification board website gets hacked - arstechnica
- Aust film censor site gets hacked - ZDNet Asia
- Hackers attack Classification Board website - news.com.au
- Hackers hack Australia's Classification Board website - neoseeker
- Classification Board Website Hacked - Kotaku
28 March 2009
- NT cop kept kiddie porn in his desk - NT News
- Radio Adelaide interview with Mark Newton - (WAV Audio)
- Oppose internet censorship - Green Left
- Aussie Classification Board's Site Hax0red, Deface-0red - Kotaku
29 March 2009
- Google calls for law - Lawdit (UK) cites Australian Government's plan for internet filtering
- Hackers attack OFLC website - The Escapist
- Aussie Classification Board website hacked - nintendolife
- Australia says Web blacklist combats child porn - JournalStar.com (US)
- Western internet censorship: The beginning of the end or the end of the beginning? - Wikileaks General article discussing internet censorship worldwide, including Australia.
30 March 2009
- Police investigate classification.gov.au hack - ZDNet
- Censorship opponents slam website hack - CRN
- Government admits Wikileaks blacklist won't stop child pornography - Herald Sun
- Conroy invokes Russian mob, human error and Moore's Law to support net filter - iTWire
- Filter trial a threat to ISP profit, says Net expert - Canberra Times
- Web blacklist won't stop child porn, admits Communications Minister Stephen Conroy - news.com.au
- Conroy gaffe defeats purpose of net filter policy - CRN
- Conroy defends Net censorship regime - Sydney Morning Herald
- The content filtering story - ARN
- Germany Opts For ISP Filtering Of Child Pornography; NGOs Warn Of Unintended Impact - IP Watch Cites similar scheme being pushed by Government in Germany
- Stephen Conroy admits net censorship won't stop pedophiles - AdelaideNow
31 March 2009
- Conroy clarifies Net filter plans - SBS
- Conroy uses iiNet case to sidestep net filter issue - iTnews
- Internet Filtering Continues to be Hot Topic in Australia - Gambling 911
01 April 2009
Note: April fools day joke articles not included.
- Conroy backtracks on internet censorship policy - The Age Sydney Morning Herald
- Conroy’s continued lies and gaffes - Crikey
- Twitter, Stephen Conroy are April Fool's Day jokes - Daily Telegraphy
- Games to be blacklisted - The Canberra Times
02 April 2009
- Conroy attack on iiNet legal defence 'grossly improper' - Liberal Party of Australia
- Conroy's iiNet comments 'grossly improper' - ZDNet
- Conroy rapped for 'improper' iiNet gaffe - The Age
- iiNet tests legality of Conroy slur - Australian IT
- Abattoir worker jailed for net sex - Brisbane Times
- Conroy Comes Out Swinging - New Matilda Colin Jacobs
- Study: surfing the Internet at work boosts productivit - ars technica (us)
- Aussies backtrack on firewall plans - The Register (uk)
- Aussie Senator Admits Error in Internet Censorship Policy - Poker News Daily
- Conroy Backtracks on Internet Censorship Policy - Gambling911
- Yes Minister? No Minister! Conroy's 'improper' gaffe - WA Today
03 April 2009
- Security distributors and vendors unperturbed by Internet filter trial - ARN
- Filtering the net without delay? No problem says Zscaler - iTnews
- Analysis: Are there worse alternatives to net filtering? - iTnews
- iiNet slams Communications Minister over copyright case comments - Smart Company
- Firms not amused at Conroy gaffe - Australasian Legal Business
- Conroy jumps out of filter fire into iiNet ire - iTWire
- Heckler atheists - Brisbane Times A little relevant due to ACL's involvement.
04 April 2009
- Australian Censorship Has Poker Sites on Most Dangerous - Poker Strategy
- Australia’s Communication Minister Senator Stephen Conroy Worst Ever - Gambling 911
- Web filter criticised - SBS News Video
05 April 2009
- Sydney schoolgirl, 13, in sexting investigation after sending nude photos of herself to boyfriend - News.com.au Relevant due to being a source of 'child pornography'
06 April 2009
- ACMA boss Chris Chapman blames media for blacklist 'conspiracy' - news.com.au
07 April 2009
- Internode "gobsmacked", iiNet welcomes FTTH network - APC
- Conroy on JJJ Hack; Starting roughly at time: 12:10 - ABC tripej hack mp3 audio
08 April 2009
11 April 2009
- The Right Opinion: Australian Internet Censorship - The Stute (us)
14 April 2009
- Senator Conroy Blacklists His Own Policy - New Matilda Article by Mark Newton
- Internet content filtering - Part 1 - MIS Financial Review
- Internet content filtering - Part 2 - MIS Financial Review
- Australia prepares to filter the Web - France 24
15 April 2009
- Australia Continuing Filtering Plans - iGamingBusiness.com
- iiNet pulls out of net censorship trials - WA Today Republished?
- Freedom and the internet - Spectator (uk)
16 April 2009
- So What Exactly Is Prohibited Content? - newmatilda.com
17 April 2009
- Back to the bad old days - The Australian
- Germany bids to block child porn sites - Google hosted news
18 April 2009
- To censor or protect - WA Today
21 April 2009
- Australia prepares to filter the Web - Independent (uk)
22 April 2009
- Optus joins internet filter trial - ABC
- Analyst: Optus' Internet filter participation shocking and disappointing - ARN
- Internet censorship coming May 22 - Courier Mail
- Optus says yes to filtering trial - Australian IT
- Optus joins internet filtering trial - ZDNet
- Optus joins ISP net filter trials - iTnews
- Optus joins ISP filtering trial - iTWire
- Optus flags participation in Net filtering trial - Techworld
23 April 2009
- Optus puts up hand for ISP filtering pilot - CRN
- Big boost for Aussie firewall - The Register (UK)
- Optus says 'yes' to internet filter plan - Sydney Morning Herald
- Optus now taking part in the Government's internet filter trial - Gizmodo
- Optus enters Government internet filtering trials - SmartCompany
25 April 2009
- Public Forum on Internet Filtering This Monday in Australia - ZeroPaid
28 April 2009
- Exetel trials content filtering technology - Whirlpool Exetel Forums
04 May 2009
- Web filters threaten national security - Computerworld
05 May 2009
- Web filter a runaway success: Exetel - Computerworld
- Exetel says no to internet filtering - iTnews
06 May 2009
- Internet content filter ISPs: Where are they now? - ARN
- ACMA link removal: A free speech analysis - ZDNet
07 May 2009
- Aussie censors implement six degrees of separation policy - The Register (UK)
08 May 2009
- Web Filtering Proposals: Crucial Child Safeguard or Censorship Tool? - CNSNews.com (us)
- Highway 1 announces start of first ISP National Internet Level Content Filtering Pilot - NewsMaker
11 May 2009
- Optus to fund filtering pilot off its own back - iTnews
13 May 2009
- Optus to join in government internet filtering trial - Christian Today
16 May 2009
- The Censors Right Here At Home - Newsweek
- Australia's 'medieval' internet filtering - Canadian Lawyer (canada)
19 May 2009
- Next up for France: police keyloggers and Web censorship - arstechnica
20 May 2009
- Australian Democrats to fight Government Internet Censorship with new site, proposals - NewsMaker
- Democrats launch anti-filtering site - iTnews SC Magazine
22 May 2009
- Australia to filter internet - The National (UAE)
- Web filtering pulls plug on euthanasia debate - Sydney Morning Herald
- Optus starts filtering trials - Australian IT
26 May 2009
- Watchful eye better than Web filters - Network World (us)
- Internet filter trials: Smooth sailing with one ISP not started - ARN
- Net filtering may not be mandatory - Australian IT
- Review of website blacklist in wind - The Age
- Christians upset at Conroy's net policy 'backtrack' - The Age
27 May 2009
- Review of website blacklist in wind - The Age
- Australia Net Filter Plan Collapsing - DSL Reports (us)
- Aussie Net Filtering to be “Voluntary Mandatory” - Zeropaid
- Aussie Christian Group Demands Mandatory Porn Filtering - ZeroPaid
- Mandatory internet filter could become voluntary - smartcompany
- Oz telecoms minister backtracks on mandatory Internet censorship proposals - TelecomTV
01 June 2009
- Unwired joins ISP-level filtering pilot - iTnews
- Opposing a law is not supporting crime - Crikey Blogs
02 June 2009
- Filter plan angers Labor youth base - Australian IT
- The return of Stephen 'e-security' Conro - iTWire
03 June 2009
- Internet filter: $44.5m and no goal in sight - Sydney Morning Herald
- Mandatory internet filtering scheme will only block most obscene content: Conroy - SmartCompany
04 June 2009
- Internet filter will cost $90k per site - Sky News
05 June 2009
- 'Net Nanny' Advocate Does Back Flip - newmatilda.com
08 June 2009
- Chinese filtering move demonstrates futility of Australian censorship proposal - The Inquisitr
10 June 2009
- No web filter will stop child pornography - The Punch
- Q and A with Google's Marissa Mayer - WA Today
16 June 2009
- The dawning of internet censorship in Germany - netzpolitik.org
20 June 2009
- Some of the best posts on the content filter trial - ARN
22 June 2009
- Fight over German filtering law sends MP into Pirate Party - ars technica
25 June 2009
- Aussie Web filter to cover games content - Gamespot
- China raises 'Great Fire Wall' on internet - ABC
- Web filters to censor video games - Sydney Morning Herald
- Some of the worst posts on the Internet filter trial - ARN
- Lessons On Censorship From China And Iran - newmatilda.com
28 June 2009
- Games for grown ups - The Age
29 June 2009
- Second Life banned in Australia - Christian Today
- Filter plan 'hopeless' - MISAustralian Financial Review
- Proposed ISP filtering allows surveillance of journalists, citizens, politicians - Metaverse Journal
- Internet Filtering Trials Explained - Law Council of Australia
- Australia's Web Filtering Plans Include World of Warcraft - Digital Journal (us)
30 June 2009
- Gaming classification farce meets Conroy’s net filter - Crikey
01 July 2009
- ICANN says Web filters will "embarrass" Aussie govt - ComputerWorld
- China delays internet filter - Australian IT
- China backs down from web filter plan - Sydney Morning Herald
- China delays Net filtering; Australia sticks to its guns - APC
02 July 2009
- Department of Broadband to seek filtering help - ARN
- Someone else's problem - MIS Australia
- Internet filter sparks gaming war - Courier Mail
- Internet filter threatens Warcraft, Second Life - news.com.au
- China's Green Dam 'Definitely' Coming - InformationWeek (us)
04 July 2009
- A new Tiananmen – but this time China’s rebels are online - Times Online (uk)
- Nitschke 'choice talk' draws crowd - Coffs Coast Advocate
07 July 2009
- Net filter learning fears - The Mercury - 06 July 2009
- Internet filter danger - Courier Mail
- Web Filters in Australia Will Embarrass Government - Gambling911.com (us)
09 July 2009
- Net filtering a $33m waste: child groups - Australian IT
- Save the Children opposes internet filter - ABC
- Censordyne: net censoring gets a toothpasting - The Age
- Filter trial report in September: Conroy - iTnews
- Activists mock web filter with ad - Ninemsn
- Children's, liberties groups protest filter - CNet ZDNet
- Save the Children opposes internet filter - Yahoo
- Green censorship? - The Nut Graph (malaysia)
- Censordyne by GetUp! will brush your free speech away - Digital Media
10 July 2009
- Internet content filtering a waste of money: child groups - Computerworld
- A few alternatives to ISP-level content filtering - ARN
- Internet Heroes and Villains named by ISPs - The Register (uk)
- Internet content filtering a waste of money: child groups - Network World (us)
12 July 2009
- Conroy beats Sarkozy for Internet Villain of the Year award - iTWire
13 July 2009
- Conroy named Internet Villain of the year - Sydney Morning Herald
- Conroy launches re-jigged cyber safety site - iTnews
- Times Have Changed, But How Much? - newmatilda.com
- Helping keep Australian children safe online (Senator Conroy) - DBCDE.gov.au
- Australia's Conroy named Internet Villain of the Year - OpenNet Initiative (us)
14 July 2009
- Qantas censors anti-censorship ad - Sydney Morning Herald Brisbane Times
- Web filters allow freedoms to be quashed - Courier Mail
- Qantas jettisons GetUp ad - Australian IT
- Did political interference have a role in censoring of GetUp ad critical of Labor internet filtering plan? - Liberal Party of Australia
- No political interference in GetUp ban: Qantas - Australian IT
- Conroy shrugs off Internet Villain award - The Age
- 'Villain' Conroy defends broadband plan - ABC
- Conroy shrugs off 'villain award' - news.com.au
- New Zealand Introduces Internet Filtering - Slashdot
- Conroy deserves Internet villain award: Minchin - Computerworld
- Conroy launches re-jigged cyber safety site - CRN
15 July 2009
- Stephen Conroy wins web villain award at ISP conference - Courier Mail
- Conroy vows to tackle illegal file sharing - iTnews
- Future direction trapped in halt state - ZDNet
- Parents find managing their child’s Internet use easy: ACMA report - somebodythinkofthechildren.com
- Internet Villain Mulls 3 Strikes For Australian Pirates - TorrentFreak (us)
16 July 2009
- Child protection groups undermine Aussie Firewall - The Register (uk)
- Internet filter sparks outrage - NZ Herald News (new zealand)
17 July 2009
- New Zealand moves forward with child porn filtering system - ars technica (us)
- Internet users take issue with child-porn filter - nzherald
- The panel look at internet censorship - ABC Insiders (video)
- Jillian C. York on internet censorship - (germany)
20 July 2009
- Internet Filtering should be Transparent - No Matter how disasteful - Voxy.co.nz (nz) 3news (nz)
- Companies line up for funding to break China's Firewall - The Register (uk)
- Content filtering way behind schedule - MIS Australia
- Euthanasia activist wants NZ website blacklist released - 3News (nz)
- Government moves to blacklist websites - TVNZ (nz)
21 July 2009
- A copyright elephant in the ISP room - MIS Financial Review
- Libraries object to internet filtering - iTnews Secure Computing Magazine
22 July 2009
- Democrats name net filtering opponent to direct technology policy - iTWire
- Content Filtering Ineffective, Harmful According to Public Knowledge Study - CircleID
- Australian Democrats announce Anti-Clean Feed Campaigner as Technology Policy Coordinator - NewsMaker
23 July 2009
- Filtering opponent to advise Democrats rebuild - iTnews
- Libraries object to internet filtering - Secure Computing Magazine
24 July 2009
- Targer cyber bullies, not censorship, expert says - ABC
- ISPs give clean feed filter a technical green-light - ARN
- Concerns over effectiveness of child porn filtering system - 3 News (nz)
- And the award for "Internet Villain of the Year", wait for it.... goes to Stephen Conroy of Australia - TelecomTV (us)
26 July 2009
- Teens' view of cyber threats - The Age
27 July 2009
- Expert: Smaller ISPs will feel bite of mandatory filter - ARN
- Aussie 'Net filtering trial deemed a success despite problems - ars technica (us)
- Internet filtering: speed won’t be the issue - Crikey
- Iranian Activists Keep Protest Going Online - TechNewsWorld (us)
28 July 2009
- Oz Firewall still standing after inconclusive filter trial - The Register (uk)
29 July 2009
- Internet filter blocks education sites, but not porn - news.com.au
- Web of Confusion - The Daily Telegraph
- Internet filter fear grows - Sydney Star Observer
- Statistics experts label ISP filtering trials unscientific - ARN
01 August 2009
- The ISP Q&A Series: Internode - ARN See 6.
03 August 2009
- Conroy promises to release ISP-level filtering report - iTnews
04 August 2009
- NSW DPP Cowdery harpoons net filter plan - iTWire
05 August 2009
- DPP blasts net censor plan - Brisbane Times
- Filtering: Final policy is still in the pipe - iTWire
07 August 2009
- Bishop attacks campaign against internet porn filtering - CathNews (us)
- Turnbull, Abetz and Conroy have a case to answer: Fielding - Australia.to
08 August 2009
- The ISP Q&A Series: Primus Telecom - ARN
- From China to the UK: net censorship worldwide - Ethiopian News (us)
09 August 2009
- Enex Testlab: ISP filtering trial is up to scratch - ARN
- Malaysia calls for online ‘filter’ - p2p.net (us)
- No need to censor political content on Internet, says Dr M - asiaone news (malaysia)
- Tinkering with Net freedoms has its costs - The Star (malaysia)
10 August 2009
- More nations bid to block Internet - London Free Press (canada)
- Malaysia backs off internet filter plan - iTnews
- Yemenis Should Be Incensed At Websense - Slashdot (us)
11 August 2009
- GDAA President, Australia's game classification system is a joke - iTWire
13 August 2009
- Internet activist group takes on Rudd - SkyNews
14 August 2009
- U.S. tests system to break foreign Web censorship - iTnews
- Church offers bail for grooming-accused priest - ABC
- Chinese internet filter to be 'optional' - News.com.au
- China says internet filter is optional - Livenews.com.au
15 August 2009
- The ISP Q&A Series: Netspace - ARN
16 August 2009
- NSW DET: School Internet filter not fail-proof - ARN
18 August 2009
- People power forces porn filter - thedaily.com.au
- Kids wise up about the internet - Sydney Morning Herald
21 August 2009
- Internet filtering meetings: Senior public servants keen on speed - ARN
22 August 2009
- The ISP Q&A Series: Telstra - ARN
26 August 2009
- Draft details on New Zealand internet filter published to clarify data collection and detection - SC Magazine
- Adelaide gets an internet-enabled bus - iTnews
29 August 2009
- The ISP Q&A Series: Optus - ARN
31 August 2009
- Denial of Service: The truth about New Zealand's Internet Censorship scheme - In Unison (new zealand)
- Adelaide gets Australia's first Internet-connected bus - iTWire
01 September 2009
- Social networks need to simpllify explansations to help keep kids safe - Computer World
02 September 2009
- Conroy urged to 'end net censorship farce' - Sydney Morning Herald
- Internet filter plan 'wasting time, money' - ABC
- Aussie government sits on censorship trial results - Fudzilla (us)
- Conroy slammed for delayed ISP filtering report - SC Magazine
- Calls for Conroy to release Internet censorship trial results - ComputerWorld
- Minchin calls Conroy on late ISP filter - ZDNet Australia
- http://www.itwire.com/content/view/27391/53/ - iTWire
03 September 2009
- Aussie firewall nears death - The Register (uk)
- Govt under pressure over net filtering - Bigpond News
- Conroy's blazing guns won't tame the 'wild west' web - Australian IT [Conroy won't tame 'wild west' web The Australian]
- Opposition slams Government for delaying release of internet filter trial results - SmartCompany
04 September 2009
- Aussie Opposition: “End Mandatory Internet Filtering Farce” - ZeroPaid
05 September 2009
- ISP Q&A: Adam Internet - ARN
- Poor filter a test of morality - The Australian
08 September 2009
- Banned abortion site not blocked - Australian IT
10 September 2009
- Hackers hit Rudd's website - The Age (video)
- Hacked by hoons: how attack on PM's website unravelled - Sydney Morning Herald
11 September 2009
- Rudd hackers escalate threats against .gov.au websites - Sydney Morning Herald
- Teenagers watch online porn 'by accident' - Government study - news.com.au
- Teenagers Apparently View Online Porn By Accident – Yeah, Right… - Gizmodo
12 September 2009
- ISP Q&A: AAPT - ARN
16 September 2009
- Conroy confirms receipt of internet filtering report - iTnews
- Cyber predators are 'enemy number one' - ABC
- Could Internet filtering cause more harm than good? - ZDNet
17 September 2009
- Greens attack Conroy on P2P filtering - iTWire
- Has Conroy's dept received filter report? - ZDNet Australia
- Minister: BitTorrent Will Not Be Blocked By Aussie Filter - TorrentFreak
- Families becoming own censors - Mercatornet
21 September 2009
- Aussie Minister: "I Never Wanted To Filter P2P" - ZeroPaid (US)
23 September 2009
- Blacklists should be given to vendors, not ISPs - ARN
29 September 2009
- Pirate Party to contest next Federal election - itnews
- Pirate Party makes waves in Australia - ZDNet UK
- Pirate Party storms Australia - Builder AU
30 September 2009
- Aussie Pirate Party plans election onslaught - Sydney Morning Herald
01 October 2009
- Filtering works, Enex trial shows - Australian IT
02 October 2009
- Australian Pirate Party sets sail - The Register (UK)
- Pirate Party Hits Australia - Builder AU
04 October 2009
- NBN an election keystone; filtering the millstone - iTWire
06 October 2009
- Our net nannies need direction - heraldsun.com.au
08 October 2009
- ACCAN adds to calls for ISPs to secure networks - itnews
09 October 2009
- Industry awaiting filter trial report - Sky News
10 October 2009
- Q&A with Senator Nick Minchin - ARN
12 October 2009
- ACS: Encryption threat to content filtering - MIS Financial Review
- ACS: ISP-filtering could affect Internet speeds and prices - Computerworld
- Conroy's filtering won't protect us from the dark side, says Cisco - iTWire
- Update: ACS says ISP filtering is not enough - ARN
- ACS gives conditional thumbs up to internet filtering - CRN
14 October 2009
- ACS filter report just what Conroy needs - ZDNet Insight
17 October 2009
- Enex Testlab wants content filter report released - Computerworld
19 October 2009
- Rudd to talk about internet filtering - ARN
- Conroy commits to public consultation on filtering - iTWire
- 'Adult' games may be captured by internet filter - iTWire
- Q&A with The Greens' Senator Scott Ludlam - ARN
20 October 2009
- GetUp cranks pressure on Rudd filter plan - iTWire
- Filter report reignites censorship debate - Australian IT
- Conroy to release filtering report and discussion paper - iTnews
22 October 2009
- Prime Minister avoids questions on Internet filtering - ARN
- YouTube to escape federal censorship plans - MIS Financial Review
- Leaked paper sheds light on filtering failures - Computerworld (nz)
23 October 2009
- Web filtering champion to stand for the Greens - News.com.au
- ISP Q&A: BigAir - ARN
26 October 2009
- Microsoft Windows thwarts police efforts to cut child porn - Courier Mail
27 October 2009
- The Greens split on ISP filtering - ARN
- Clive Hamilton clarifies position on web filtering - news.com.au
10 November 2009
- Call it an ISP filter Kevin but your logic leaks like a sieve - thepunch.com.au
11 November 2009
- ISP Q&A series: TransACT's joint venture - ARN
13 November 2009
- Q&A: Senator Nick Xenophon on Net filtering and piracy - ARN
10 November 2009
- Call it an ISP filter Kevin but your logic leaks like a sieve - The Punch
15 December 2009
- Australia to go ahead with Internet censorship legislation - TelecomTV (uk)
- Australian Filters To Cause New Problems - Roulette News (us)
- Australian Online Casino Internet Filters Pass Test, Says Conroy - Online Casino Advisory (us)
- Australia Releases Report on Web Filter Test as Plans Proceed - eWeek (us)
- Christian Lobby wants filter net cast wider - iTnews
- Internet censorship plan gets the green light - SMH
- Australia plans Chinese-style internet filtering - Telegraph (uk)
- Joining China and Iran, Australia to Filter Internet - Fox News (us)
- Australia Confirms Censorship Plans, Tells Fibs On The Filtering Trial - Inquisitr
16 December 2009
- Conroy's Clean Feed Won't Block Child P*rn (Mark Newton) - newmatilda.com
- Our views on Mandatory ISP Filtering - Official Google Blog
- At what point does internet filtering become censorship? - The Age
- Child welfare is more important than net freedom - The Punch
- Hey geeks, stop the whining and build a better filter - The Punch
- Net censorship move a smokescreen: expert - The Age
- Internet filter laws need urgent public debate - The Age SMH
- Filter pilot did not test high-speed internet - iTnews
- Bernard Keane’s guide to writing to Ministers - Crikey
- Australian Back to Censoring The Internet... Again - Techdirt (us)
- All your internets are belong to Conroy - iTWire
- Australia moves forward with web filter plans - v3 (uk)
- Aussies Censor Web Content - thinkingaustralia.com
- Child groups slam Conroy’s ISP filtering plans - Computer World
- Google opposes mandatory ISP filtering in Australia - Media Mughals (India)
- Australia releases report on filtering of “refused content” by ISPs - Topnews (us)
- RMIT: Internet filtering alone is not enough - ARN
- Launch Of Watchdog Solutions In Australia Provides Business Opportunities For ISPs Under New Filtering Rules - PR Wire
- Australia defends disputed web filter plan - AFP (us)
- Australia Rolling Out ISP-Based Internet Filters - ITProPortal (us)
- Government says yes to Internet filter, Google says no - Good Gear Guide
- "Heavy-handed" filter won't help, says Google - Secure Computing
- Australian Internet Censorship Given the Go Ahead – But What’s the Alternative? - The Next Web Australia
- Conroy’s internet filter: so what? - Crikey
- Some Obligatory Reading On The Internet Filter Issue - Gizmodo
- Google slams 'heavy-handed' filter - ZDNet
- Govt to go ahead with easy to circumvent internet filter - Digital Media
- ISPs to pay for filtering regime, $27,500 fines apply - CommsDay
- Government pushes ahead with mandatory internet filter - SmartCompany
- Greens dismiss Internet filtering discussion paper - ARN
- ISP-level filter trial vendor happy with results - ComputerWorld
- Australia Internet filtering a test case for global clean-feed - ARN
- ISP Filtering May Block Important Sites - Smarthouse
- Australian government to censor the internet by 2011 - neowin (us)
- Mandatory filtering? Judge it by the company we'll keep - iTWire
- ISPs, pollies & activists speak out on internet filter - CRN
- Government unveils new cyber safety plan - Dynamic Business
- Australia censors the Internet - TechDay (nz)
- Pirate Party, Greens battle Conroy's filter - ZDNet
- Australia wants to impose mandatory Internet Filters - Geek With Laptop (us)
- Why the Internet filter is not the solution we wish it was - Penny Sharpe MLC
- Child groups slam Conroy’s ISP filtering plans - InfoWorld
- Australia: Proposed Internet Censorship will Block “Unclassified” Websites - The Global Herald (uk)
- Conroy casts a wide Net filter - The Canberra Times
17 December 2009
- Outcry on internet censorship - The Age
- Web filter to block internet nasties will compromise NBN, say providers - The Australian
- The net is tightening around your rights - Sydney Morning Herald
- Filtering threatens freedom, but won't stop net nasties - Sydney Morning Herald
- Net filters 'thin end of the wedge': Kirby - Sydney Morning Herald
- Lundy throws her support behind ISP-based filter - ComputerWorld
- Great Firewall of Australia will nationally block sites appearing on a secret, unaccountable list - boingboing (us)
- NZ Should Join Australia To Censor Internet (Family First PR) - Scoop (nz)
- Kirby slams Net filter plan - The Canberra Times
- ISP Filtering Doomed To Failure - Smarthouse
- Net filtering ‘plan’ is a fraud - The Punch
- Columnist: R18+ Paper Meant to Distract from Web Censorship - Game Politics (us)
- First Labor politician breaks filter ranks - ZDNet
18 December 2009
- Internet filter will not stop child porn peddlers - SMH
- Conroy will be censoring people, not the internet - SMH
- Abbott ums and ahs on filter - ZDNet
- ISPs on the filter: Who's for, who's against - ZDNet
- Several Liberal MPs oppose filter - ZDNet
- Spoof Conroy website protests at internet filter plan - SMH
- Regulating Technology For Grown-Ups - newmatilda.com
- The Intenet filter, Human Services and probably Telstra - Computerworld
- IIA calls on ICT industry to help raise filter issues - Computerworld
- Conroy plans speed humps for Australia's freeways - Sydney Morning Herald (digihub)
- Australia Really Wants To Censor Online Casinos - Casino News Authority
19 December 2009
- Australia's Great Barrier - Index on Censorship
20 December 2009
- auDA Take Down Anti-Internet Filtering Website in Record Time - PRWeb
21 December 2009
- Conroy abandons speed hump plans for Australia's freeways - Sydney Morning Herald (digihub)
- Australia pushes internet censorship; Twitter erupts - Global Voices Online
- Australia Struggles to be a Democratic Censor - Voxy.co.nz
- Anti-Censorship Group Wants To Send Conroy Coal For Xmas - Gizmodo
- Conroy's filter just the beginning - ZDNet
- The Filter Protests Guide - Computerworld
- Reporters Without Borders: Don’t do it, Rudd! - Crikey
22 December 2009
- Filter opponents: change tactics or fail - ABC Unleashed
- Net filter opponents plan web protests - ABC News
- Censorship debate heats up - Melbourne Community Voice
23 December 2009
- Stephen Conroy: Dear Crikey, here’s why you’re wrong - Crikey (By Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy Senator Stephen Conroy)
- Fears over internet filter - SX News
28 December 2009
- Electronic Frontiers Australia ramps up anti-filtering campaign - iTWire
29 December 2009
- Australian government pushes ahead with internet censorship - World Socialist Web Site
- Censoring the internet… will NZ follow Oz? - Scoop Independent News
31 December 2009
- Internet filter: just geeks beating their chests? - iTWire
- Filtering of websites does not make a nanny state - Courier Mail
03 January 2010
- Australian Government To Delay Internet Censorship Until After Next Election - The Inquistr
04 January 2010
07 January 2010
- Internet filter - national day of protest on March 6th - iTWire
- National net filter protest pushed back - Secure Computing
11 January 2010
- Web filters mean bad news for business - ZDNet Asia
13 January 2010
- Protecting children online takes more than a filter - SMH Canon Dr Ray Cleary is chairman of the Melbourne Anglican Social Responsibilities Committee.
14 January 2010
- Protecting children online takes more than a filter - Sydney Morning Herald
- Internet filter ferals blacklist Lundy - iTWire
15 January 2010
- Google agrees to take down racist site - Sydney Morning Herald (Mr Newhouse believes the site [Encyclopedia Dramatica] would be filtered under the Federal Government's mandatory filter.
18 January 2010
- Don't rely on filters, be better parents - ZDNet (Canon Dr Ray Cleary is the CEO of Anglicare Victoria and the chair of the Melbourne Anglican Social Responsibilities Committee)
19 January 2010
- EFA claims 100 signatures an hour in filter petition - Computerworld
20 January 2010
- Internet filter protesters set to fade websites to black on Australia Day - news.com.au
- Conroy's internet filtering plan 'may lead to painful deaths' - news.com.au
- APNIC: IPv6 adoption delay could create costs - Computerworld
21 January 2010
- EFA's anti-filter campaign dumps No Clean Feed slogan - iTWire
22 January 2010
- Clinton speech boosts anti-filter campaign - ABC
- Senator Conroy defends Internet filtering and criticises Chinese censorship - ARN
- Conroy supports Clinton's anti-censorship speech - Computerworld
- EFA: 500 websites to go dark next week - iTnews
25 January 2010
- Australia leaves the internet - The Register (uk)
- Australia Day internet blackout protests filtering - APC
26 January 2010
- Internet filter 'poses threat to freedom' - ABC
- Websites fade to black in censorship protest - Sydney Morning Herald
27 January 2010
- iiNet stars as lone ranger in filter blackout protest - iTnews
- Deloitte: ISP filter won't affect Australian businesses - ARN
- Channel firms join internet filter blackout - CRN
28 January 2010
- The Coalition isn’t convinced net filtering will protect kids - The Punch
- Ex Swedish PM: "Tear down these walls against Internet freedom" - iTWire
- InternetNZ rejects internet filtering - Computerworld
30 January 2010
- New laws flagged to crack down on cyber-predators - Sydney Morning Herald
02 February 2010
- Labor gags internet debate - AdelaideNow
03 February 2010
- Conroy: We didn’t claim filtering was a silver-bullet solution - Crikey
- Labor Senator argues against net censorship - APC
05 February 2010
- Q&A 2010 with The Greens' Senator Scott Ludlam - ARN
08 February 2010
- Conroy meets with Google for YouTube filtering - iTnews
- AFP abandons legal pursuit over blacklist leak - iTnews
09 February 2010
- Conroy under fire over mate's top job - ABC
- Opposition slams broadband chief appointment - The Age
- Govt may sit on broadband viability study - ABC
- Google cold on voluntary YouTube filtering - iTnews
- Conroy's filter will not make the internet safer - The Drum - ABCSuzanne Dvorak, chief executive, Save the Children Australia
10 February 2010
- How teens took Rudd to the cleaners in question time - The Age
- Operation Titstorm: hackers bring down government websites - The Age
- 80% of Aussies support filter - ZDNet
- Titstorm 'irresponsible', says Conroy - ZDNet
- Federal Opposition renews call for ISP filter trial audit - Computerworld
- Data Plus - Cleanfeed - Hungry Beast ABC (Video)
- Access Denied! - Hungry Beast ABC (Video)
- Stephen Conroy Extended Interview - Hungry Beast ABC (Video)
- Hungry Beast Poll - Hungry Beast ABC (pdf)
- Australia websites hacked in porn filter protest - BBC (uk)
- 80pc back web filter: poll - ABC
- Pro-porn protesters target government websites - ABC
11 February 2010
- Internet porn? We don't look at it, say Aussies - news.com.au
- Google baulks at Conroy's call to censor YouTube - Sydney Morning Herald
- iiNet case dealt filter a body blow - ZDNet
- Google tells Australia to go forth - The Inquirer (uk)
- Anonymous targets AU gov't Internet porn filtering - neoseeker
12 February 2010
- Chairman Conroy's red Australia - Brisbane Times
- No, minister: Google rebuffs censor - Sydney Morning Herald
- Anonymous: Attacks better than signing a petition - Delimiter
- Anonymous says Titstorm beats a petition - ZDNet
- Pakistan, Iran, and... Australia? Let's censor Google! - ars technica
- Q&A: Xenophon on ISPs, Telstra and the cloud - ARN
- Cyber attacks against Australia 'will continue' - BBC (uk)
- Google Won’t Force Australians To Use YouTube ‘Safety Mode’ Despite Content Filtering Debate - iTech Report
- Conroy's filter on the wrong side of an emerging ideological fight - Sydney Morning Herald
- Australia cyber attacks could last 'months': hackers - AFP
- Defence spooks and Feds go Anonymous hunting - iTWire
- Google rejects Australian Censorship - - InformationWeek
- YouTube offers clean feed as Google says 'No Minister' - - iTWire
- Google won't impose same censorship as China - International Business Times
14 February 2010
- Aussie net censorship turning Chinese - The Register (uk)
- Censorship Minister In $250M TV Deal Scandal - Smarthouse
15 February 2010
- Anonymous takes filter protest to the streets - Delimiter
- Filter 'confers legitimacy' on broader censorship: Google - iTWire
- Librarians voice opposition to Internet filter - Computerworld
- Conroy faces off with Google on censorship - iTWire
- Google joins new anti-filter coalition - iTWire
- Operation Titstorm hits the streets - iTnews
- ALIA join forces with Inspire Foundation, Google and Yahoo to battle Senator Conroy's internet filter - Atomic
- Australia prepares for week of protest against web filters after the Anonymous group hit key websites last week - SC Magazine (uk)
16 February 2010
- Librarians: Close the books on Internet filtering - ARN
- Google and Yahoo! join Oz protests - The Register
- Google and Yahoo raise doubts over planned net filters - BBC
- Aussie web content filtering idea not that clever, say Google and Yahoo - BroadbandGenie
17 February-March 2010
- OH NO BLACK HOLE ATE THEM (They're on a todo list).
14 March 2010
- Australia defends mandatory Internet filter - news.com.au
23 March 2010
- Labor divided on internet filtering plan - The Australian
- Conroy's internet censorship agenda slammed by tech giants - The Age
- Conroy's filter plan unworkable, says Google Australia - The Australian
- Don't review filter blacklist: Christian group - ZDNet
- ISV: Internet filter threatens national security - ARN
- Microsoft, Google and Yahoo! speak out in ISP filter consultation - ARN
- ISPs a no-show on filter discussion paper - Computerworld
- Five wacky submissions to Conroy's ISP filter plans - iTnews
- Anonymous threatens further attacks - ZDNet
- Senator Kate Lundy on mandatory ISP filtering - ZDNet (podcast)
- Telstra and Optus disagree on ISP filter blocking notification page - Computerworld
- Public weighs in on Internet filter plans - ARN
24 March 2010
- Google spots holes in internet filter plans - Sydney Morning Herald
25 March 2010
- Conroy's net gag sparks assassination and bomb plot chatter - The Age
27 March 2010
- On Conroy's information byway, there's some roadkill - Sydney Morning Herald
29 March 2010
- Conroy to debate filter opponents tonight - ZDNet
- Stephen Conroy and US at odds on net filter - The Australian
- US reveals concerns over Conroy’s net filter plan - The Punch
- A mollycoddling internet policy is just feeding the trolls - The Age
- Google: An open web helps keep the bastards honest - The Punch
- Banned website list won't be made public - news.com.au
- Google and Yahoo criticise Australia's 'heavy-handed' internet filter plans - The Guardian (uk)
- US Joins Chorus Opposing Australia's Internet Filtering Plan - E-Commerce Times (us)
- US concern over Australian internet filter - ABC News
- ISP Q&A: vividwireless chief on 4G, how wireless fits in the NBN and ISP filtering - ARN
- Conroy silent on US internet filter knock - Computerworld
- Conroy resolute: No opt-out for filter - iTNews
- Conroy not aware of US filter complaints - delimiter
30 March 2010
- Government goes to war with Google over net censorship - The Age
- Child sex abuse websites hard to track - The Australian
- Your internet policy sucks, US tells Aussies - The Register (uk)
- Public response to filter: Video - ZDNet
- Australia and the US on a collision course over internet freedom polic - ABC (Radio Australia)
31 March 2010
- Was the US only asking for filter info? - ZDNet
1 April 2010
- Photos: Sydney protesters gag on internet filter plan - iTnews
- Google to leave Australia over 'evil' filter - ZDNet
- Internet's not special, says communications minister - SMH
3 April 2010
- Net crackdown 'threat' to Wiggles - The Age
4 April 2010
- Makers ignore porn recalls - Canberra Times
6 April 2010
- Elderly learn to beat euthanasia blacklist - SMH
- Abbott torn on internet filter plan - iTNews
- No proof ISP filtering works: Abbott - The Australian
- 'Hacking masterclass' offered to bypass filter - ZDNet
- Reseller throws filter hacking masterclass - CRN
7 April 2010
- Conroy: Don’t believe the myths on the ISP filter - The Punch
8 April 2010
- Why Conroy’s critics should censor themselves - The Punch
9 April 2010
- Conroy's wrong on net filtering - Business Spectator
12 April 2010
- Internet filter not censorship: Conroy - SMH
- yARN: Can Conroy conquer filtering by flying solo? - ARN
13 April 2010
- Beating the filter: masterclass photos - ZDNet
- Filter unnecessary: US ambassador - ZDNet
- Unregulated internet not an option: Conroy - iTWire
- Change agent: Senator Scott Ludlam - delimiter
- Filter hacking teacher: IT industry need to step up anti-filtering action - ARN
- Australia should drop filter plan: US - Australian IT
- Net filters a 'modest measure': Conroy - Sydney Morning Herald
- US ambassador critical of Conroy's internet filters - SMH
- Filtering is good for the internet, hmmkay? - news.com.au
- Child pornographers can be caught without internet filters, Obama aide says - news.com.au
14 April 2010
- Internet filter policy under fire - 7.30 Report (ABC)
15 April 2010
- Google goes to Washington on filter - The Australian
- Facebook removes Conroy murder fan page? - ZDNet
16 April 2010
- No penalty for bypassing Conroy's internet filter - news.com.au
21 April 2010
- Set up for a fall: why I pulled out of internet filtering debate - Melissa Tankard Reist previously pro-filter
- ISP filtering bill delayed indefinitely - ARN Labor party delays internal vote on mandatory filtering, with draft legislation yet to be completed
- Net filter patronises the digital generation - The Age
22 April 2010
- Boyce queries Conroy, Smith on US filter concerns - iTWire
23 April 2010
- Aussie cloud provider to fight Internet filter - ARN
24 April 2010
- Shadow Minister Tony Smith on ISP filtering - ARN
26 April 2010
- Tea Party brewing a rebellion - Sydney Morning Herald Second half of page
27 April 2010
- Philip Nitschke warns of internet censorship of euthanasia information - Courier Mail
29 April 2010
- Rudd retreats on web filter legislation - The Australian
18 May 2010
- Tribunal backs ACMA in EFA link censorship - ITWire
- AusCert 2010: Australian net filter doomed - Computerworld
- But, who is the Conscious Pilot? - ITWire
20 May 2010
- Content filter: Dumb and dumber - Computerworld
24 May 2010
- Government blocks bid for filtering report drafts - news.com.au
- Conroy delays internet filter bill - ABC
- Q&A: NICTA CEO on the NBN's viability, filtering and ICT growth - ARN
- Conroy unlikely to reveal secret filter forum results - Computerworld
25 May 2010
- Google says Communications Minister Stephen Conroy won't listen - Herald Sun
- Titstorm leads to DDoS prevention trial - ZDNet
- Call to join Tor network to fight censorship - The Australian
- Google returns fire after Conroy privacy attack - ABC
- Conroy: We’ll block 50,000 sites - Crikey
- 'Petulant' Conroy accuses Google of 'single greatest privacy breach' - Sydney Morning Herald
- Filtering by computer fails on judgment - Sydney Morning Herald
26 May 2010
- ISP filter could put Google TV on backburner - news.com.au
- Commercial filters on side of web censors - The Australian
- 'Put your money where your mouth is,' Conroy told - Sydney Morning Herald
27 May 2010
- Rudd continues to spend big with Google - The Australian
- Akmal Saleh in anti-internet filtering video for kids - The Australian
- It’s Time To Tell Mum About Internet Censorship - Gizmodo
28 May 2010
- Conroy's Google attacks unhelpful: IIA - ZDNet
31 May 2010
- iiNet: Conroy misrepresents our filtering stance - ARN
- Don't claim we support filter, iiNet tells Conroy - news.com.au
01 June 2010
- EFA apologises for 'sexist' anti-filter site - ZDNet
- Internet filter offers fresh target for hackers - Sydney Morning Herald
- iiNet, Primus split on filter - iTnews
06 June 2010
- How Conroy's daughter wrecked his unsecured iPhone - APC
07 June 2010
- Conroy cries foul over 'dishonest' filter foes - iTnews
- Google Street View cars may have obtained bank details - The Australian
10 June 2010
- ACL: Anti-filter movement doesn’t faze us - ARN
12 June 2010
- Web snooping policy shrouded in secrecy - Sydney Morning Herald
24 June 2010
- Bloggers campaign for Kate Lundy in reshuffle - news.com.au
28 June 2010
- Conroy re-commits to filter, slams Lundy amendments - Delimiter
29 June 2010
- Conroy: "I'm Not Into opting in on Child Porn" - Gizmodo
- yARN: Who cares about the mandatory ISP filter? "Nobody"! - ARN
- Conroy, Lundy and zombies - ZDNet
30 June 2010
- Whirlpool DDoS attacks to be reported to police - iTnews
02 July 2010
07 July 2010
- Gillard speaks out on the filter - ZDNet
- Gillard backs internet filter - ABC
- 'Unlawful' net filter claim referred to AG - ZDNet
- Gillard: Conroy will get filter into shape - PC World
- Conroy: Internet filter bill with fixes will be out by November - ARN
- ISP filtering legislation on the way - The Australian
- Professor warns Aus firewall is undemocratic - The Register (uk) A large part of the problem, Professor Lumby believes, is that the Communications Minister Stephen Conroy really does not understand the internet.
08 July 2010
- Filter cops criticism in cyber-safety commitee - Computerworld
- Gillard should halt ISP filtering plan: Greens - The Australian
- Conroy mocks IT portfolio “campaign” - Delimiter
09 July 2010
- Conroy delays controversial web filtering plan - The Australian
- Update: Internet filter delayed till 2011 - ARN
- Is the Internet different? - Computerworld
- Gov't doesn't trust 'internet companies', says Conroy - Good Gear Guide
- Labor being 'bloody minded' on filter - ZDNet
- Internet filter 'won't protect kids' - The Age
- Liberal calls Labor 'bloody minded' over Filter - ITWire
- Conroy puts internet filter on backburner - ABC News
- Google on the filter: We told you so - ITWire
- Conroy backs down on net filters - The Age
- Has Conroy just rolled on the net filter? - The Punch
- Filtered Internet for 70% of web users under government deal - Computerworld
- Conroy delays ISP filter until after content review - iTnews
10 July 2010
- Gillard dodges flak on filter - The Age
- First the porn, then the culture - The Australian
- Internet filter rules under review in Australia - BBC News (uk)
- Q&A: National Party Senator, Barnaby Joyce, on ISP filtering, Telstra and the NBN - ARN
- Internet Filter delay has EFF cheering loudly - ITWire
12 July 2010
- Internet security consultant urges government to fund more net police - The Australian
- Internet security consultant urges government to fund more net police - news.com.au
- Internode, iiNet, VHA won’t filter for now - Deimiter
- Conroy's filter ain't dead, just resting - Sydney Morning Herald
- Conroy's filter masterstroke - ZDNet
- Filter response shows Conroy the way - ZDNet
- No opt-out for Optus, Telstra filter - ZDNet
- Can common sense save Labor? - ZDNet
- How the tech industry defused the internet filter - iTnews
- Opinion: Conroy's temporary filter all Australia needs - PC World
- Mixed reactions to Internet filter delay - Good Gear Guide
13 July 2010
- Child porn filter move hits snag - The Age
- Will internet censorship affect your vote? - news.com.au
- Fractious ISPs may fumble their chance on internet filter - The Australian
- The State of trust: it's a one way street - ABC
19 July 2010
- Hard times for true believers as Labor takes more Right turns - Courier Mail
20 July 2010
- Government plans for expert to check each banned web page - The Australian
- Filter not part of preference talks: Greens - The Australian
- Sex Party takes on Conroy in Senate race - iTnews
- 'Open Government' invites filter discussion - iTnews
- Jessi Slaughter and the 4chan trolls - the case for censoring the internet - news.com.au
21 July 2010
- The filter survey is closed. Here are the results - iTWire
- Do you support the Internet Filter? - iTWire
- Q&A with former Communications Minister, Michael Lee: On ISP filtering and browser history data collection - ARN
- Censorship: Labor's hidden policy - ABC
23 July 2010
- No Minister: 90% of web snoop document censored to stop 'premature unnecessary debate' - Brisbane Times
- Election 2010: what ISPs want - ARN
- Government stifles debate on web browser history retention - ARN
- Internode: Voluntary filter an empty promise - ARN
04 August 2010
- Malcolm Turnbull to host anti-filter forum - ARN
10 August 2010
- Labor steadfast over internet filter - ABC
06 September 2010
- Australian Net Filter Dead? - ZeroPaid (us)
07 September 2010
- ISP filter could be buried - Australian IT
13 September 2010
- Pro-euthanasia TV ad ban 'a violation of free speech' - The Age
16 September 2010
- Conroy hits back at Turnbull filter critique - ABC "If you want to be a strict engineer, it's 170th of the blink of an eye"
13 October 2010
- The filter is right: Gillard - ZDNet
- Gillard backs controversial web filter - Sydney Morning Herald
Opinion
Polls
- Courier Mail
- Sky News Results location unknown
- Sydney Morning Herald - (1% Yes Filter 99% No Filter) - 5 June 2010
- Yahoo7
- Sydney Morning Herald - (86% - unnecessary censorship, 66000 votes) - 13 April 2010
- Sydney Morning Herald - 30 March 2010
- The Age - (16/12/2009 No-94% Yes-6% Total-773)
- Sydney Morning Herald - (Yes, I think it's a good idea-2% No, it impinges on my freedom-96% Not sure, it sounds good in theory-2% I don' t understand it-1% Total-18632)
- Seven Sunrise Poll (youtube) - 80% Against Filtering.
- Courier Mail Poll
- Adelaide Now
- Overclockers Australia
- Whirlpool
- Whirlpool - (Has the filter changed your politics?)
- BubHub
- The Greens Political Party Website
- Australian Broadband Survey - Whirlpool
- Gamers-Underground
- Whirlpool Broadband Survey 2008
- The Independent Weekly
- Netspace
- Sydney Morning Herald - (15/12/09 96% of voters did not support internet filtering - 24378 votes)
Discussion
- Do you approve of the Government blocking access to some internet sites? - New Zealand Herald (nz)
- Australia's net filter creeping closer - Gamespace
- Government censored internet - the great firewall of Australia? - Sydney Anglicans
- Australia to filter Internet content (some MMOs mentioned) - CoH Guru
- Compulsory Internet Filtering? - Bub Hub
- OCAU Discussion thread
- Campaign against Australian internet filter - Cardschat
- Australia's Internet filter - Windows 7 forums
- Australia, No Opt-Out Filtered Internet? - xkcd
- Whirlpool - Whirlpool Forum Discussion Thread Part: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57
- 71% Australians Do Not Look at Internet Porn - Hard OCP
Blogs
- Senator Kate Lundy | Internet content Parent Education is the key - Kate Lundy blog - 19 March 2003
- No sex please, we're Labor - Full Duplex ZDNet - 17 Jan 08
- Australia's Clean Feed Broken | Posters - Off Topic with Ashley
- More developments on internet filtering: the religious connection | Evolving Thoughts: John S. Wilkins - Evolving Thoughts
- Australia going to mandatory filtering - Filtering Facts - 14 Oct 2008
- Australia's Great Firewall: just like China, Syria and other "free" countries - Boingboing.net - 15 Oct 2008
- Australia to begin filtering internet - the amateur scientist - 17 Oct 2008
- Australian Activists Fight Filtering Methods - OpenNet - 28 Oct 2008
- How to be Senator Conroy | Fingerpuppetmafia.com - Fingerpuppetmafia.com 1 2 - 23 Oct 2008
- Can Labor implement 'clean feed' without legislation? - Defending Scoundrels (Dale Clapperton)
- Stop Australian Internet Censorship - Stop Australian Internet Censorship
- Australian Women Online on ISP Filtering | Danielle Hutchinson - Australian Women Online - 30 October 2008
- Defeating Australia’s Internet Censorship Plans - Strange Times Lastsuperpower blog
- The Censored Old Land of Oz - The LRC Blog | LewRockwell.com (us)
- Anti Filter - Anti Filter Blog
- ISP censorship - Hitler video - overstream
- Australian Web Crawl - Reason online
- Australian Internet filters have backdoor - PC Authority - 03 Nov 2008
- Australia looking to become internet censor (just like China) - CrunchGear
- Australian Women's Online's 'wholehearted' support of Stephen Conroy - North Coast Voices
- Australia: First Western Nation to censor the Internet? - Austrolabe
- Filtered freedom - Worldmag Blog
- The Great Firewall Down Under - Jolt Digest
- Say goodbye to freedom on the internet - was nice while it lasted - coffee.geek.nz (Australian filtering mentioned at bottom of post)
- More bad news for Scunthorpe - Dan's Data
- The internet filter we still have to have - Courier Mail
- Chairman Rudd - Chairmanrudd.com
- Winning the war against Internet censorship - On Line Opinion
- Aussie prudes - Pharyngula
- Government encourages critical thinking? Then why a clean feed? - All teachers are learners - All learners are teachers
- Australia's Net Censorship Sparks Outrage - Josh Catone Sitepoint.com
- Conroy's 'Clean Feed' Support Evaporating - Syd Walker blog
- The Filter-Tipped Internet - Servant of Chaos
- Government adopts mandatory internet censorship - Sharing My Opinion
- A message to all Australians, are you out of your f-ckin' minds? Australia’s Internet censorship will be ‘worse than Iran’ - Chycho.com
- Evidence based approach? - Vicarious Conversations
- ISP filtering in Australia: Think about the children! - Geekzone (nz)
- Keep the Internet Open at Urban Grind - urban grind
- Australia’s Proposed ‘Clean Feed’ System: Filtering Australia’s Economic Future - joelyrighteous's Blog
- Where my parenting meets the 'cleanfeed' - Josh Nunn’s Geekorium
- Telstra supports online child safety - Nowwearetalking
- Glen Turner: [LINK] The rallies??? - ANU-newsdiscussion
- The Internet Filter - A Bad Idea - Aussie Bloggers
- An open resignation from the Australian Labor Party - Thinkers Podium
- Top 10 people Conroy would hate if he was listening - The Websinthe Blog
- Parents against the cleanfeed: a moment The Websinthe Blog
- Government ISP filter is dangerous for children The Websinthe Blog
- Conroy responds to Ludlum, finally (the first time) The Websinthe Blog
- Jim Wallace is Wrong - Geordie Guy Blog
- Response to Jim Wallace’s puddle of misinformation - Websinthe
- Jim Wallace’s pro-censorship lies and distortions - Stilgherrian
- Clive Hamilton misses the point again - Websinthe
- Clive Hamilton - Nanny Statist - Double-Think
- Clive Hamilton, you’re really starting to shit me! - Stilgherrian
- Clive Hamilton Reveals Real Reason for Net Censorship - The musings of an Australian classical liberal in Washington DC
- Clive Hamilton misses the point completely - Public Polity
- Clive Hamilton & Johnny Normal: A Twisted Tale - sydwalker.info
- Clive Hamilton & I: Getting Personal about Sex, Lies, Hate & Censorship - sydwalker.info
- Where Clive Hamilton accuses me of trying to silence him - Websinthe blog
- Internet Accountability instead of Censorship - NetFox Netfox develops filtering software
- Why internet filtering must never happen - Hydrapinion
- Internet censorship in Australia ramps up - Science blogs - 19 March 2009
- Pluto in Capricorn: AM is Banned in Australia! - beliefnet - 24 March 2009
- What now for Senator Conroy and the Magic Filter? - Stilgherrian
- I don't believe in total freedom of speech - Mamamia
- China backs down on internet filtering, why can't Australia? - OZSoapbox
- Stephen Conroy is a Cunt
- Stephen Conroy, the OFLC, and censoring the intertubes - Loon Pond
- Firewall of Lies - Open Forum Australia: Alexandra Roach's blog
Groups
- Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA) - EFA Fact Sheet
- SAGE-AU - SAGE-AU
- No Clean Feed - No Clean Feed
- Somebody Think of the Children - Somebody Think of the Children
- Facebook group | Australian ISP filtering is stupid - facebook
- Leave The Net Alone - Leave The Net Alone
- Electronic Freedom Project - Wiki Forums
- Members of the Senate Scorecard - Score Card - EFP
- CensorFree - CensorFree (Civil Liberties Australia [CLA)]
- Ausrage IRC - #ausrage on irc.rizon.net
- Stop The Clean Feed - Stop The Clean Feed
- No Censorship - No Censorship
- Child Wise - Child Wise note: Many 'facts' presented in this article are incomplete and are missing key vital parts to them and do not completely represent the information covered.
- NetChoice - NetChoice
- ALIA (Australian Library and Information Association) - [ALIA http://www.alia.org.au/advocacy/internet.access/] ALIA does not recommend the use of internet filtering technology in public libraries. Filtering has been shown to vary in its effectiveness, blocking some sites with useful and legal information, while not fully protecting children and others from illegal, objectionable or offensive material.
YouTube Videos
- EFA's Dale Clapperton Interview - 7 Morning Show
- Internet Filtering Debate - 7 Sunrise
- Save Our Bloody Internet - DissentStudios
- How to fight internet censorship in Australia - AngryAussie
- Aust government to save children by destroying Internet - AngryAussie
- Internet Censorship in Australia - PaulusAlexus
- Internet censorship in Australia - sapperbloggs
- Mandatory Filtering Australia - nocensorshipaus
- Re: Internet Censorship in Australia - thatgaybloke
- Internet Filtering ABC1 7.30 Report March 2008 - nocensorshipaus
- Sky News - Internet Censorship - SkyNewsAustralia
- Internet Censorship & Infowars.com - mranderson1986
- ISP-level content filtering won't work - nocensorshipaus - Telstra/iiNet/Internode
- Australia To Be The Next China Internet Police? (PopSnap)
- Government Internet Filter - jimboot
- Senator Ludlam questioning Conroy in Senate
- ABC 7.30 Report - 24th Nov - Mandatory Internet Filtering featuring OCAU's Manaz
- ABC Lateline - 19th Mar 2009 - Technology reporter for Crikey, Stilgherrian, talks about the ACMA blacklist leak
- Minister for Censorship Australia - Steve Johnson Phone call
- No Mandatory Internet Censorship – Advertisement
- Stephen Conroy's misinformation from the Australian ISP filtering debate
- Message To The Australian Government From Anonymous
Comics
- Userfriendly - 09 Nov 2008
- HijiNKS Ensue - 11 Nov 2008
- Ned the bear interviews Stephen Conroy - 24 Mar 2009
Resources
People
- Anh Nguyen
- 2006 Victorian Election candidate for Family First.
- Mark Newton
- A network engineer with Australian ISP Internode. He was the victim of the attempts by Senator Conroy's office to silence his criticisms over the Government's ISP Level filtering plan.
- Senator Stephen Conroy
- Australian Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy.
- Clive Hamilton
- A Charles Sturt Professor of Public Ethics at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, ANU. A vocal supporter of mandatory filtering.
- Bernadette McMenamin
- Founder and CEO of ChildWise. Vocal supporter of Internet filtering. A member of the Consultive Working Group to improve Cyber-Safety organised by Senator Conroy in May 2008.
Other
Australian Internet Filtering(Newspaper Scorecard)
A piddling offence and much worse - SMH Historical insight into Senator Conroy's political career