Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Aussie content filters "work" (not counting IM, P2P, FTP...)

Results of a public trial have bolstered the Australian government's plan to implement both mandatory and optional ISP filtering in 2010. For the moment, though, violent video games are safe.

Ah, the Internet, defier of governments and slough of offshore porn-how can any country hope to control what is hosted beyond its borders? Actually, Australia has discovered an old Chinese remedy that just might do the trick: mandatory ISP filtering using a secret government blacklist.


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