Australia's 2 Largest ISP's Start Censorsing the Web

unreadepitaph writes "Looks like after Stephen Conroy's web filter went down in flames he went quietly behind the backs of Australians and struck a deal with Telstra and Optus to start filtering an undisclosed blacklist of sites from organization within and external to Australia. From the article: 'Electronic Frontiers Association board member Colin Jacobs also expressed concern at the scheme, saying the Government and internet providers needed to be more upfront about websites being blocked and offer an appeals process for website owners who felt URLs had been blocked unfairly. "There is a question about where the links are coming from and I'd like to know the answer to that," Mr Jacobs said."

"Second Largest ISP"

[Skythe]

Just before someone chimes in with this, iiNet is the 2nd largest ISP in terms of Broadband DSL subscribers - Optus would have more combined subscribers with DSL/Cable/other (which is what OP would be referring to).

Re:Wait until the list is leaked.

[alanthenerd]

Plus if you don't change they will think that their actions are acceptable. If at the point you contact them to cancel their service you tell them why and enough other people do likewise they may realise that filtering isn't acceptable and stop doing it.

Re:Anti-Democratic, Anti-Republican

[silentcoder]

Mussolini did NOT say that. He did love the phrase and tried to claim credit for it, but it wasn't his.
The phrase was written by philosopher Giovanni Gentile in the Encyclopedia Italiana much earlier.