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• Gillard: Filter is a “moral question”

  Prime Minister Julia Gillard yesterday took the high ground in defending Labor's mandatory internet filtering project, describing the issue of how to ensure Australians didn't get access to the wrong content as a "moral question".

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  Internet filter is right: Gillard

  Prime Minister Julia Gillard isn't budging on dropping the unpopular internet filter, saying it is a moral judgment the government needs to make.

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  Opinion: The Filter is dead, but it'll be back

  The Greens' success over the weekend in cementing their hold on the balance of power in the Senate has sounded the death knell for the government’s controversial ISP-level internet content filter.

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  Liberals to slash net filter

  The Federal Opposition has moved to trash the Government's highly controversial mandatory ISP-level Internet Filter.

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  Filtered Internet for 70% of web users under government deal

  Up to 70 per cent of Australians will have filtered Internet access under a deal between Telstra, Optus, iPrimus and the Federal Government, Communications Minster Stephen Conroy said today.

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  AusCert 2010: Australian net filter doomed

  Renowned security expert, Marcus Ranum, has declared Australia's Internet content filter will fail to combat child porn and may not get off the ground.

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  Our vote is in: Kirby for net filter blacklist inspector

  Communications minister, Senator Stephen Conroy, has tried countless ways to appease the more skeptical of us that mandatory ISP-level filtering is a good idea.

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  Conroy goes unopposed in TV filtering debate

  The vice-chair of the Electronic Frontiers Association has laughed off being snubbed by Channel 7's Sunrise program for a segment on net filtering with the communications minister, Senator Stephen Conroy.

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  Senate committee to call for public net filtering views

  The public will have the opportunity to present their opinions on the Federal Government’s controversial Internet content filter to parliament.

• Net Filter companies losing ISP business

  Sales of web content filters to the telecommunications industry have frozen as reluctant Internet Service Providers (ISPs) wait for possible subsidy under the Federal Government’s national Internet content filter plan.

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  All eyes on Australia as Conroy pushes net filter

  Governments and organisations around the world are intently watching Australia as the Federal Government continues to peddle the proposed ISP-level Internet filter, former GetUp executive director and AccessNow founder, Brett Solomon, has revealed.

• Internet bound by national borders: Analyst

  The Internet does not have its own sovereignty, and governments have a right to filter online content, according to China Digital Strategist, Kaiser Kuo.

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  Net filter legislation status uncertain

  The Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy, is yet to confirm whether the legislation for the contentious Internet filter will be tabled at the next Parliament sittings in May or June or after a Federal election.

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  Big ISPs to benefit from mandatory Internet filter: Academic

  The burden of managing the costs associated with the implementation of ISP-level filtering could put many of Australia’s smaller ISPs out of business, according to a University of Sydney academic.

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  Pirate Party and Philip Nitschke teach seniors to hack filter

  Pro-euthanasia group Exit International is holding national hacking crash-courses in how to bypass the Federal Government's planned ISP-level Internet content filter with help from the Australian Pirate Party.