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Conroy green-lights centralised internet filtering
Industry bodies and ISPs are divided over planned legislation that will force ISPs to filter all Internet traffic according to a government-managed blacklist, announced today.
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Testing of Conroy's internet filter flawed: expert
A senior ISP engineer says the government's internet filter was never tested at high speed, nor did it meet the government's own performance benchmark.
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SA gov bans anonymous online comments
In a bizarre move, the South Australian government has banned anonymous online comments about election issues. We asked Gamers4Croydon candidate Kat Nicholson what she thinks.
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Labor Senator argues against net censorship
Legislation for internet filtering will hit parliament as early as this month, but Labor Senator Kate Lundy says she is fighting for an opt-out option.
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Buggy Parliament web filter blocked News Ltd
The Federal Parliament's own internet filtering system (yes, the one that filters the net for politicians) has been blocking a News Limited website, it emerged today.
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Now Conroy wants Google to filter YouTube in Australia
Stephen Conroy has expressed admiration for what he termed as Google’s role in suppressing controversial web content in China, Thailand and other countries.
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Attacks on Conroy work better than petitions: "Anonymous"
The loosely-knit group known as Anonymous has brought out war rhetoric to defend their continuing distributed denial of service attacks on the Australian government.
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Anonymous takes filter protest to the streets
The loose coalition of individuals who attacked Government websites last week under the banner of "Anonymous" has unveiled plans to take its protest to the streets.
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92% of Whirlpool users against filter
Out of 21,755 people that responded to the survey, an overwhelming majority said they didn't want Senator Conroy's internet filter.
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Tasmania internet law sparks protests
A number of civil liberties, privacy, consumer groups and individuals have started to express displeasure at what they claim are out-of-date laws about online commenting.
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NET FILTERING: 83% wouldn't vote Labor at next election
Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA) today welcomed survey results showing Australian Internet users might not vote Labor again at the next election due to Internet filtering.
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Tasmania’s dirty bunyip not the last
OPINION | First South Australia tried wacky internet laws, then Tassie. But we only have more of this to look forward to -- the golden days of the net are drawing to a close.
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Senator Kate Lundy proposes "Internet Filter Lite"
The Pirate Party has come out guns blazing, rejecting it and saying "now is not the time for compromise".
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Dear Stephen, your site is broken
To the honourable Senator Stephen Conroy, Parliament House, Canberra.
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No apologies for internet filter: Rudd
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has thrown more wood on the fiery debate about the Government's internet filtering plans, saying it wouldn't apologise for pushing ahead with the plan.
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Govt to postpone net filtering till after election: prediction
... and if Labor wins at the next election it will claim a clear mandate to immediately implement its unpopular internet filtering plan.
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Programmer orders Conroy to remove bastardised website code
A software developer has cried foul over what he says is misuse of his code on Communications Minister Stephen Conroy’s web site.
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EFA deliberately misled on internet filter: Conroy
Comms Minister Stephen Conroy's latest attack is on Electronic Frontiers Australia, who he has accused of deliberately misleading the public about his internet filter scheme.
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Oh dear: Pirate Party Serkowski’s fighting words
Shadow Treasurer Joe Hockey might have come out swinging against Conroy and his internet filtering scheme last week, but the Pirate Party Australia is still not impressed.
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EFA rejects “extraordinary” Conroy attack
Online rights group Electronic Frontiers Australia has responded to what it described as an "extraordinary challenge and attack" by Comms Minister Stephen Conroy.
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