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Yesterdays announcement that the government will require all Internet Service Providers to implement a mandatory block on pages that do not meet the requirements of a National Classification System has been met with great support from the Australian people. Citizens everywhere gathered both in the streets and online to celebrate the courage of the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, in his efforts to protect our children and keep Australia safe from the scourge of the earth.

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Enex TestLab did not test ISP-level filtering products on internet connection speeds greater than 8 Mbps, raising questions of possible degradation at ADSL2+ and fibre speeds.

Further, none of the nine ISPs who piloted filtering technologies could provide an environment to test Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6), an addressing scheme the internet industry expects will be necessary in the coming years as IPv4 addresses run out.

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Australia defends controversial web filter

Australia on Wednesday dismissed as "baseless" claims it was proposing a China-style plan for mandatory filtering of the internet and denied the system could be abused to silence free speech.

Communications Minister Stephen Conroy hit back at criticism of his "Clean Feed" plan to outlaw access to sites featuring material such as rape, drug use, bestiality and child sex abuse.

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The Federal Government will introduce compulsory internet filtering to block overseas sites which contain criminal content, including child sex abuse and sexual violence.

Communications Minister Stephen Conroy announced the changes today following a controversial trial to filter the internet which was conducted earlier this year.

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Greens go black for internet filter protest

THE Greens will join more than 500 other websites in fading their webpage to black in protest against the federal government's proposed internet filter.

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Many of us aren't aware what is going on in other countries in regard to online e-commerce. However, we think you should become more involved so that you will benefit it. For example, if you see a decent buy on Ebay but it is based in Australia, and is MA15+, you cannot purchase this item as a result of what the Australian government are planning to do. From personal experience, I have found Australia sell the most up-to-date games online and so this will be a huge blow economically.

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Voluntary euthanasia advocate Philip Nitschke says the Federal Government's plan to filter the Internet will restrict information about euthanasia.

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Conroy must explain why Christian lobby gets net filtering trial update: Greens

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Inconclusive news from the internet filtering trials might turn out to be bad news for the anti-censorship lobby in Australia. The Australian Government's refusal to explain what exactly would count as a bad result for internet filtering adds to the sense that it will be ploughing on with this regardless.

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We protect the world-but will you protect us?

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Hackers target govt over filterThe group, which dubs itself Anonymous, has achieved online notoriety for previous attacks against the Church of Scientology.

The group appears to have detailed public plans online to start attacking the websites, email addresses and fax numbers of the Federal Government, particularly Communications Minister Stephen Conroy and the Australian Communications and Media Authority after the expiry of an ultimatum published one month earlier.

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