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this website cited the article: TechCrunch | What's up with Australia's planned Internet filter?

links to www.gizmodo.com.au/...f-labor-internet-filter-policy

This post talks about The Broadcasting Services Amendment (Online Services) Act 1990. It talks about the ineffectiveness of filtering software and the cost to Ausralia. Google Blog

Australia remained one of the strictest western country to censor internet and filter ISPs (google blog search)

ARIN2610 googleblog "Australia's off-line censorship laws are among the most restrictive in Western democracies and the Net censorship laws are more akin to those in totalitarian regimes than to those, if any, in other countries purporting to be Western democracies."

ARIN2610 googleblog "the Australian Federal Government has announced its intention to introduce new legislation to compel Australian Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to filter all information transfer in Australia, with the intent of stopping the general public from accessing selected information."

Google Blog Search - Internet filtering proposed by Telstra and Optus in Australia

Summary of Labor's internet filter policy and how it has evolved over time. Takes up a decidedly negative stance on the policy.

Comments about the "Minister for Child Pornography's" stance on the Internet Filter

It is required to filter internet access of certain type of content eg. illegal sites. This is an issue for "cyber safety" and in order to protect children and youth from potential harmful informations and material.

"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).

A massive 'fail' to the internet filtering software on civil service filters.

accusation that australia is blocking more than just child pornography sites

Located by linking from a website found on google blog search, very strong anti filtering campaign blog.

ONI isis a collaborative partnership of three institutions: the Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto; the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University; and the SecDev Group (Ottawa). It aims to investigate, expose and analyze Internet filtering and surveillance practices in a credible and non-partisan fashion to provide education and policy advice on issues. (clusty)

Google Blog Search - ISP, Internode refuse to filter internet in Australia for child porn

ARIN2610 Telstra's voluntary internet filter on child pornography Google blog search

Blog about some of the things that have been said about internet filtering and why people should not be believed.

Protest for Internet censorship / filtering in Australia. Google Blogs

The Liberal Government opposes Labor's internet filter

Conroy, The Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy in Australia, confirms and clarifies the filtering of the internet as a protection method.

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

about filtering the internet

Internet Censorship and filtering in Australia, a post in Anime Take forums

anime blog website, talking about internet censorship

Negative attitude towards internet censorship. Producer believes it to be futile. Australia will be "controlled like China/Egypt" - obvious negative connotations.

Various articles / perspectives about internet filtering globally