“The centre-left Labor government had pushed since 2007 for a mandatory Internet filter to protect children, to be administered by service providers, despite criticism it was impractical and set a precedent for censorship. The idea was that the filter would block access to material such as rape, drug use, bestiality and child sex abuse. But Communications Minister Stephen Conroy said the government had now reached an agreement with Internet providers that they would block ‘the worst of the worst’, adding that about 1,400 sites monitored by Interpol would be barred.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/11/08/australia-scraps-plan-to-filter-internet/
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