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arin2610 googlelink "Indian government has now asked Skype and Gmail to provide Indian Intelligence Agencies and Information Department with an access to the communication data."

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."

"ACMA - ISP FILTERING" google blog search

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)

ARIN2610 googlesearch Australia's biggest internet providers begin blocking an Interpol list of child abuse websites.

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."

Protests had made the legislation for internet censorship voluntary. However, Telstra seemed less agreed than Optus to provide voluntary censorship to users

link: internet-censorship-australia.blogspot.com

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Blog of long-running political/historical commentary site Crikey. arin2610 google blog search

Is internet filtering by Australian ISPs illegal? Looks at the possible legal implications of internet censorship.

Voluntary Censorship of Crime

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So after the ball is over…… Australians see the prospect an equally divided vote and a hung parliament. Did the 2010 election live up to its expectations as being a social media election? Tony Abbott very early in the piece virtually stopped using social media.

Social Media on the Federal Election - Blog about the politics of the Government

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TONY Abbott is accused of "payback" against Malcolm Turnbull's backers as Coalition unity splinters following his frontbench reshuffle. There is widespread anger among Liberal MPs and even warnings of leadership instability down the track.

IT took Rob Oakeshott 17 minutes to say "I do" to Julia Gillard - how long would it take him to call, "Order" if he were Speaker in Federal Parliament?

Abbott claims that late selection in three seats in NSW cost him the majority in the House

TONY Abbott is blaming NSW Liberals for his narrow election loss as the latest poll count shows he is just 30,000 preference votes behind Labor. The Opposition Leader yesterday said the late selection of Liberal candidates in NSW cost him three key seats.

TONY Abbott is blaming NSW Liberals for his narrow election loss as the latest poll count shows he is just 30,000 preference votes behind Labor. The Opposition Leader yesterday said the late selection of Liberal candidates in NSW cost him three key seats.

A radical new approach to thwarting Internet censorship would essentially turn the whole web into a proxy server, making it virtually impossible for a censoring government to block individual sites.The system is called Telex, and it is the brainchild of computer science researchers at the University of Michigan and the University of Waterloo in Canada.

Woot wik, part of the Federal Election web sphere.

Complete overview of the 2010 Australian federal election.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia A federal election was held on Saturday, 21 August 2010 for members of the 43rd Parliament of Australia. The incumbent centre-left Australian Labor Party led by Prime Minister Julia Gillard won a second term against the opposition centre-right Liberal/National Coalition led by Opposition Leader Tony Abbott, after Labor formed a minority government with the support of an Australian Greens MP and three independent MPs.

Previously confidential documents detailing Universal Music's meetings with the former UK government over the Digital Economy Act are revealing a whole lot more than the pair intended. Blacked-out sections now uncovered show that Universal believed that ISPs could spy on their users and hand over information to rightsholders in order for them to sue.

On the day the World Wide Web celebrates its twentieth anniversary, it's worth considering what the future holds for the Web and the Internet as a whole. Yesterday I threw out the question on Twitter and Google+, receiving some excellent answers back. Here are some of the best.