A proposed Internet filter dubbed the “Great Aussie Firewall” is promising to make Australia one of the strictest Internet regulators among democratic countries. Consumers, civil-rights activists, ...

The Association for Alternative Information criticised the central internet filter to be enforced on 22 August. The association found the corresponding recommendations issued by the Internet Committee ...

A Christian tech startup run by a “dad who doesn’t like the devil” has launched an internet filtering service designed to protect children from the “dangerous LGBTQ cult.” FreeFiltering founder ...

Australia is in the midst of a heated debate over blocking websites citizens can view. The controversial ban has been postponed for a year -- conveniently after the country's elections -- so that an ...

Upon the initiative of the Alternative Communication Association, more than a hundred academics launched a signature campaign against applying the disputed internet filtering system at universities.

The Australian Government has scrapped controversial plans surrounding the implementation of a mandatory internet filter, first suggested by the Labor party five years ago. Communications Minister ...

ZDNet.com.au this week contacted all of Australia's largest ISPs regarding their stances on the government's internet filter. Almost every ISP supported the measure in some way, but iiNet and ...

The Net is increasingly getting broken into cantons. The digital chain connecting one's laptop to a Web site thousands of miles away can be traversed by a single click--so long as no link within the ...

Public libraries have the same discretion to limit access to Internet pornography on their computers as librarians have when deciding which books to add to their collections, the Bush administration ...

China has been using “state-of-the-art technology” and “its sophistication is greater than ever,” wrote Paul Mooney last week in the International Herald Tribune about the 18-month-old filtering ...

Meanwhile, school libraries and classrooms with federally financed Internet connections have had to certify to the federal government that they are in compliance with the filtering requirement. Age ...

Politicians have complained about an overly zealous web filter installed in Canberra's Parliament House, with one Liberal senator saying its glitches didn't bode well for the planned mandatory ...