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From http://clusty.com (Yippy) The Classification Board has frequently banned foreign games from being sold into the Australian Market. This article spawns in lieu of "Left 4 Dead 2" being also censored.

Australia, have announced its plan to ban at least 500 and more websites from next month. the criteria of filtering 500 websites is that they contain or might contain Refused Classification (RC), such as Child Abuse, Sexual Violence, Content related to crime, euthanasia, violence, drug use and promoting terrorist activities would be banned.

Comparing Australia with other major countries in both western and eastern to highlight the similarities and differences in censorship on internet. iNet is agreeing on helping Conroy to provide ISP blockage for the censorship (google blog search)

ARIN2610 googleblog "Australian Internet Censorship Plans | Optus & Telstra to Filter Internet in Australia"

A reference site linking to "Left 4 Dead 2 Banned in Australia" Article at Gamespot.com. The inCrysis Forum/ Other Gaming

Clusty search, from the tag group "ban, australia"

From http://clusty.com (Yippy) A secret list by the Australian Gov, posted on Wikileaks, threatens to ban many websites, many of which pose no real threat to society.

Aus Government accused of creating false scientific reports and publishing them on the internet.

Article about the blacklist of sites which will be censored in Australia.

2009 Article detailing the Australian Communications Regulator's blacklist of banned websites in Australia, which was leaked via Wikileaks.

Article about how wikileaks has posted current internet blacklists

After being shut down by Italian authorities an app in Google has allowed owner of a proxy site to launch a new proxy to allow access to torrent sites.

Google helps Italians to unblock a torrent site, allowing the free distribution of copyrighted information! Anti-censorship at its most powerful.

BTjunkie's proxy sites keep getting banned by the Italian police so now they're fighting back with the power of Google('s proxy service).

Internet activists Anonymous co-ordinate a protest raid over Internet censorship in Australia.

link of Internet Censorship | Somebody Think Of The Children

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Australian Internet Censorship will go ahead as of August 22nd. These censored sites can still be bypassed.

about filtering the internet

An American perspective on Australia's censorship regime in films, television and the internet.

Internet censorship can really limit your activities on the internet. Mostly, countries ban some websites from being used with regional IP addresses while sometimes the websites don't give access to IP addresses of certain regions. However, the problems of internet censorship can be solved with the help of VPNs.

"Our intention is to stop the implementation of Internet Censorship in Australia. In case you don't know what that means, or who it affects, it is the proposed plan of creating a compulsory internet filter which is intended on removing and banning the access to any website which is deemed "inappropriate". While the idea itself is intended to bring a safer environment for children on the internet, the filter brings about no concern for anybody else who uses the internet, and is a serious violation of our freedom of rights, speech and expression." Google blog search

Another deeply concerned blog that is pushing for stopping internet filtering in Australia. (Google Blog search).