Australia: Internet censorship machine quietly revs up - Information Policy - 0 views
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Australia's biggest internet providers begin blocking an Interpol list of child abuse websites,
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This filtering scheme – voluntary for ISPs but not users - is much milder than the mandatory filtering policy proposed by Communications Minister Stephen Conroy,
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Optus said it was in the process of implementing blocks of Interpol's list for its customers but had not yet committed to filtering ACMA's list
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Senator Conroy's spokesman said the government was still committed to introducing its heavily criticised mandatory ISP filtering scheme
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A number of notable Australian ISP began to block sites containing child pornography.
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ARIN2610 ISP's to take on ACMA's blacklist on child abuse material Google blog search
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Producer provides objective information on Australian Internet censorship. Talks about ACMA filtering, voluntary filtering by Optus and Telstra and the focus on filtering child pornography and other obscene sites. Also talks about he futility of the process and how easy it is to bypass.
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Filtering URL and setting up a black list by ACMA to effectively censor offensive websites is under development. However, arguments for the censorship is still occuring (google blog search)
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ARIN2610 googlesearch Australia's biggest internet providers begin blocking an Interpol list of child abuse websites.