"internet filter blacklist" news, interviews, and features

News about internet filter blacklist

• Hockey: The Coalition will not vote for a mandatory ISP filter

  Move could signal the death of mandatory ISP filtering unless the Government gains a majority in the Senate

• Filter hacking teacher: IT industry need to step up anti-filtering action

  Fear of being branded child pornography supporters are preventing IT companies from participating in direct anti-filtering activities

• Wikileaks raided by German police

  Site owner says search for porn is unfounded

• More doubts surface over enforceability of ACMA's blacklist

  If one provider doesn't filter then the whole scheme would fail.

• Banned poker sites make joker of ACMA's Internet blacklist

  Banning URLs not a substitute for lack of policing

• ACMA's website blacklist leaking seen as a disappointing move

  2300 URLs of objectionable material made available through Wikileak, thanks to poor implementation policies that gave too many people access to the list