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 »

The USA has taken nearly 10 years to decide, with a final ruling by the US Supreme Court, that mandatory internet filtering does not meet that nation's constitutional protections. Here, the New York Times explains in an editorial why the result is the ri… more »