internet filter blacklist

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  For transparency's sake, ISP filter goes under review

  Last Friday, Senator Stephen Conroy issued a statement saying mandatory ISP filtering will not be imposed until a review of Refused Classification (RC) content is completed first – a big step forward in the transparency of any URL blacklist.

  By Rodney Gedda | 12 July, 2010 11:14

  Tags: ACMA, content filter, internet filter blacklist, isp, Senator Stephen Conroy

• Wikileaks raided by German police

  The owner of whistleblower Web site wikileaks has been raided by German police days after it controversially published the Australian government's Internet blacklists.

  By Darren Pauli | 25 March, 2009 17:00

  Tags: internet content filtering, internet filter blacklist

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  URL blacklist 'creep' possible: Conroy

  If you don't like what the government does just vote it out.

  By Rodney Gedda | 25 March, 2009 13:51

  Tags: ACMA, blacklisting, gambling, internet filter blacklist, internet filtering trial, Senator Stephen Conroy

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  More doubts surface over enforceability of ACMA's blacklist

  With the leaking of the supposed Australian Communication & Media Authority's (ACMA) URL “blacklist”, further doubts have been raised over whether such a list, and even Web Filtering itself, can successfully achieve the federal government's goal of protecting Australians from undesirable content like child pornography.

  By Tim Lohman | 24 March, 2009 14:41

  Tags: ACMA, blacklisting, IIA, internet filter blacklist, internode, isp

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  Banned poker sites make joker of ACMA's Internet blacklist

  Less than a week after the federal government's URL blacklist was leaked and caused a furore over the status of online betting company Betfair, Australia's poker industry is now in the firing line over the number of legitimate poker sites that could be banned by the filter.

  By Rodney Gedda | 23 March, 2009 15:57

  Tags: ACMA, gambling, internet filter blacklist, legal, poker

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

  The reputed leaking of a secretive Internet filter blacklist held by the communications watchdog ACMA to Wikileaks has been seen as both disappointing and inevitable by industry.

  By Matthew Sainsbury | 19 March, 2009 17:10

  Tags: internet filter blacklist