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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"

Google Blog Search Claims by the government to censor internet sites in an attempt to prevent child abuse have been doubted and questioned as to the extent that these violate privacy. The writer questions if there are there any other motive's for the government's actions.

Here the Pirate Party tells of their grievances with the UK department of Culture and how it met with copyright holders to discuss about having search providers police and censor active searches for things they deem violating copyright. They feel it will bring various unneeded costs to the companies and thus the users themselves.

"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).

Australia has scored highly for internet freedom in its first appearance on a Freedom House report into 37 countries, but violation of user rights and lack of access for some users were cited as concerns.