Blacklists and internet clean feeds are not the way to protect Australian web users from “prohibited content”, says IBRS information security advisor, James Turner, on account of the sheer magnitude of work and resources required to maintain such lists:
“The problem with using blacklists is that you always have to go back to your supposedly omniscient [...]

Interesting article by Aric Sigman, together with accompanying discussion, on the topic of internet filtering from a UK perspective.
This is the first time in our history that children have had the greatest preponderance of ideas, opinions, values and – most importantly – images delivered as a takeaway directly to their eyes and ears, without the [...]

Internet filtering: this I expected more of the previous Australian government, under the antiquated stewardship of former Prime Minister John Howard, rather than the apparently contemporary, tech-savvy, administration of Kevin Rudd.
But this is politics and the Australian people apparently need to be protected from themselves so clean feeds, or “filtering”, it is…
The Australian Federal [...]