World Mandatory Australian net filter to block up to 10,000 websites

[TheDamien]

AUSTRALIA'S mandatory internet filter is being primed to block 10,000 websites as part of a blacklist of unspecified "unwanted content", Communications Minister Stephen Conroy revealed in Federal Parliament.

The 10,000 blocked websites would include 1300 websites already blacklisted by the Australian Communications and Media Authority.

Senator Conroy revealed details of the Rudd Government's proposed web filter as he called for expressions of interest from internet service providers for a live trial of the technology.

Australian net filter could block 10,000+ sites

The government is proposing rating sites according to Australia's video classification systems, which bans many forms of fetishistic content.

www.telecomasia.net

 

[Seb!]

This is not good. :thdown:

 

[EatShrooms]

Ah jesus, the rest of the world is going to follow. REBELLION WORLDWIDE NOW

 

[Jackal]

"The pilot will specifically test filtering against the ACMA blacklist of prohibited content, which is mostly child pornography, as well as filtering of other unwanted content," Senator Conroy told Parliament.

:thup:

 

[Heavy-Gear]

It's not the actual blocking i'm worried about, It's the "up to 87%" speed loss that the filters will cause. My internet's slow enough already..

 

[duyen]

Proxies anyone?

 

[Darg]

No Clean Feed - Stop Internet Censorship in Australia !

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