Tony Smith must be a little miffed that shadow Treasurer Joe Hockey took it on himself to announce Coalition policy on the internet filter.

The author of the tag cloud javascript code used on the DBCDE website has demanded it be removed.

There is a tag cloud on the DBCDE website with code specifically inserted to NOT display the phrase 'ISP Filtering.'  It's nice to see that the Department is standing up for its principles.

The Rudd Government will introduce mandatory ISP-level filtering of Refused Classification material on the internet based on a blacklist system and will provide funding to encourage service providers to give customers the option of more stringent filtering systems, Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has announced.

Australia's third largest ISP iiNet chief regulatory officer Steve Dalby has admitted in Federal Court to dismissing AFACT allegations of iiNet customer copyright infringement, saying, "we were not going to do AFACT's job for them."

Government will release the Enex Testlab report on internet filtering "in full" at the same time it issues a discussion paper on policy options, and has committed to a public consultation on the controversial issue before it proceeds further.

The Global Financial Crisis, such as it was, will recede from voters' memories even faster than it took share markets by storm a year ago. And as much as the Rudd Government has enjoyed the ‘best crisis it could hope for,’ spruiking its heroics won’t get it too far with an electorate already starting to ask what have you done for me lately.

Communications Minister Stephen Conroy had “shifted the goalposts” in the debate on the internet filtering of peer to peer traffic, Greens senator Scott Ludlam has claimed.

As Senate Greens turned up the volume on demands for more detail of Government plans for mandatory internet filtering, Communications Minister Stephen Conroy recommitted to releasing a consultants report on the issue when it is completed.

The Rudd Government plan to introduce mandatory ISP-level filtering was dead in the water and Communications Minister Stephen Conroy should end the farce now, the Opposition’s leader in the Senate Nick Minchin said.