Australian Communications and Media Authority's website to regulate material found in all Communications and media. This is specifically their online regulation page.
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.
The father of the Australian Firewall, Mr. Conroy corroborates with ISP's in Australia to filter the internet. However, with such censorship brings about issues of democracy and human rights. The violation of the basic human rights to access information on internet. Such censorship is said to bring in several controversies, illogical content bans and censorship of websites that are unrelated to content banned by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA).
A look at internet censorship around the world and particuarly the plans for filtering in Australia, considering Conroy's statements and the supposed support of the ISPs.
Talks of Australia joining other nations that have internet censorship. Focus on removing obscene sites and Child pornography. Optus and Telstra willingly censoring sites. Possibly a futile effort and filtering needs to be more thorough.
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)
Big Brother aka the Communication and Information Minister is going to replace Iran's Web access with an 'all-Iranian intranet' for the greater good of the country.
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"Indian government has now asked Skype and Gmail to provide Indian Intelligence Agencies and Information Department with an access to the communication data."
The Communications Minister, Stephen Conroy, is ploughing ahead with his internet filter policy despite there being virtually no chance any enabling legislation will pass either house of Parliament.
After the announcement that Australia would start censoring 500 or more websites from July, 2011, many will try to find out a way to bypass this censorship to try surf and use the internet in the same way they used to, before the censorship was started by Australian Communication and Media Authority (ACMA).
Australian PM Julia Gillard works towards censoring the internet in Australia through Conroy's filters, in an effort to protect citizens from the dark side of communications technology.
Federal Government of Australia will be censoring over 500 websites that pertain to specific themes deemed unsuitable for Internet users.
Certain communication network providers will assist in this censorship.
Conroy, The Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy in Australia, confirms and clarifies the filtering of the internet as a protection method.
"Last Thursday, British Prime Minister said that he wanted to "stop people from communicating on social media" whenever that person is using it to instigate violence"
This blog post brings to light the various discussions going on concerning current government movements on anti-copyright and counterfeiting policies and the effects it is having on Australian communication providers.
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Electronic Frontiers Australia outlines the events occurring
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The voluntary filtering being introduced by some of Australia’s major internet service providers (ISPs) is on shaky legal ground
content filters based on Interpol’s blacklist of child exploitation material rather than the relevant portions of the blacklist that continues to be compiled by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA).
But is that the way we make laws? We just leave the commercial sector to do its own thing?
Australia's biggest internet providers begin blocking an Interpol list of child abuse websites,
This filtering scheme – voluntary for ISPs but not users - is much milder than the mandatory filtering policy proposed by Communications Minister Stephen Conroy,
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
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.
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)