¶ Australian Internet Filter

The Australian government proposes to filter the Internet in this country at the ISP level.

The plan was proposed and is being implemented by Senator Stephen Conroy, who is the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy.

¶ Information

• No clean feed
• Electronic Frontiers Australia
• Internet censorship in Australia, Wikipedia article
• Australian Internet Filtering, OCAU (Overclockers Australia)
• ISP filtering live pilot, Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy

• Youtube, Senate sitting 2008-11-12 Senator Conroy 'answering' questions

¶ News

• Filter advocates need to check their facts, ABC News article, by Mark Newton (Internode employee)
• Canberra calls net filter trial, News Corp article, by Fran Foo
• Internet censorship pilot to go ahead, Whirlpool news item
• Filtering out the fury: how government tried to gag web censor critics, Fairfax Digital article
• Cheap tricks not the right response on internet filtering, Crikey article