Australia Scales Back Internet Blacklist, Nixes Full-Scale Censorship 51
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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.
Dont forget their plans for mandatory logging (Score:5, Interesting)
While this seems like a small victory for common sense, don't forget that Conroy wants the ISPs to store years of traffic for every customer.
Rather than prevent a site from working (via blocking against a secret government list), they want to be silently collecting "evidence" instead.