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Sex choice adverts banned from search engines in India
By: Davey Winder

Internet censorship has many and varied faces. The latest revealed itself in India as the Supreme Court  ordered Google, Microsoft and Yahoo to stop serving up adverts for sites that promote sex selection services.


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Macs get a Net Nanny
By: Stuart Corner

The popular PC based Internet filtering and control software product, Net Nanny, has been ported to the Macintosh.


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Sysadmins slam ACMA web filtering study
By: Stephen Withers

The System Administrators Guild of Australia has criticised the Australian Communications and Media Authority's report on ISP-level content filtering, questioning its relevance to real-world conditions. A major objection is that the ACMA tests did not align with the actual bandwidth expected and demanded by today's Internet users.


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ISP level net filtering: don't get too excited
By: Stuart Corner

Communications minister Stephen Conroy, hell-bent on foisting ISP level Internet filtering on all Australian consumers, is pretty pleased with the report of a trial of ISP level filtering handed to him recently to him by the ACMA, but it leaves many questions as to the practicalities of ISP level filtering unanswered.


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The UK's most spammed man
By: Davey Winder

An anti-spam outfit in the UK has compiled a list of the top five most spammed individuals in the UK. Three of them use Orange as their Internet Service Provider, and the most spammed man gets an average of 44,001 junk emails on a daily basis. But just who is the most spammed man in the UK?


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We have the technology...but so do the bad guys
By: Stuart Corner

Australian communications minister, Stephen Conroy, seems to believe that regulation can be embedded in technology. Recent developments suggest he is being overly optimistic, but that may be no bad thing.


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$129m to keep Australian children safe from cyberporn
By: Stuart Corner

The Federal Budget has allocated $128.9 million over four years "to create a safer online environment for Australian children." Law enforcement alone will get $49m and the government will press ahead with its controversial ISP filtering plans, but has stopped not confirmed earlier suggestions that this would be mandatory.


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Melbourne IT (WebCentral) filters email with Cloudmark
By: Stuart Corner

Resource savings of around 80 percent are being claimed for the Cloudmark Authority email filtering system which checks messages against a real-time updated database compiled by continuously monitoring 260 million email boxes.


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Filtering the Finnish way? forget it
By: Stuart Corner

Australian Communications minister, Stephen Conroy claimed last week in support of his drive to mandate ISP filtering in Australia that "ISPs in a number of countries, such as the United Kingdom, Sweden, Norway and Finland, have successfully introduced ISP level filtering." He may well come to regret that statement.
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ACMA report finds little to support Conroy's enthusiasm for ISP filtering
By: Stuart Corner

Communications minister Stephen Conroy has used publication of the ACMA's report on internet filtering to once again talk up the government's plans to introduce ISP level filtering, but the ACMA report says little in support of the practicalities of such a scheme.
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