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Australia Scales Back Internet Blacklist, Nixes Full-Scale Censorship

Posted by timothy on from the now-with-less-poison dept.

littlekorea writes "The Australian Government has officially abandoned plans to legislate a mandatory internet filter. The news ends a four-year campaign by the ruling party to implement legislation that would have compelled ISPs to block a list of URLs dictated by Australia's telecommunications regulator, the ACMA. ISPs have instead been told to block a list of known child pornography sites maintained by INTERPOL." Also at ZDnet.

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  1. Difficult one by unix_core · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    How can i make a first post if i have nothing insightful nor informative to say. Saying something funny would no doubt get me labeled as some kind of pervert.