IT Resource

It appears that Senator Conroy and the Labor party are are determined to continue with the introduction of internet censorship to Australia – another first for ‘western’ democracies.

You may like to read this blog post from the West Australian and also read Google’s view on the subject.

You may also wish to express your views at Getup: http://www.getup.org.au/campaign/SaveTheNet&id=892

As reported in the Sydney Morning Herald, the Australian government has admitted that it has not defined ANY criteria to judge the success or failure of it’s limited Net Filtering trial.

Following on from the leaking of the site blacklist, the inclusion of legal sites on the list, and the scaling back of the size of the banned list to be used for the trial, this is another demonstration of the lack of forethought and clear goals for this policy.

The news has been roundly condemned by Coalition and Green party members.

Read the full story here