Optus will participate in the Australian Government's Internet Service Provider (ISP) filtering pilot. Optus (second largest ISP in Australia) joins seven other ISPs participating in the pilot-Primus Telecommunications, Highway 1, Nelson Bay Online, Net… more »

Communications Minister Stephen Conroy is back-pedaling, fast. On the SBS TV program, Insight, he indicated internet filtering in Australia would block information already banned by the censor only, with parents responsible for controlling their children… more »

French President Sarkozy has announced plans to censor the internet. He's threatened a new law, but it looks like he's hoping for a voluntary system among ISPs, as occurs in Britain. Rabid opposition is expected from French citizens. France’s Sarkozy w… more »

The Open Society Institute, a Soros Foundations initiative, will discuss The Future of Freedom and Control in the Internet Age in a live webcast focusing on Chinese and Russian web control, from 10am-11.30am Sydney time on Wednesday 11 Feb 09. Register… more »

The basis of the pro-campaign to censor the internet is a left-field, 2003 academic report and 35 petitions, which are actually just two separate petition statements, copied, and with different signatories. But Communications Minister Stephen Conroy, an… more »