Australian Net Filter Gets One Step Closer (Saturday 25th of July 2009 06:45:01 PM)
Condobolin sends in an update to the Australian government's ongoing efforts to instrument
ISP-level filtering. One of the hurdles they had to surmount was to build a system that would
allow them to filter content without impairing other but intranet ...
(more)Ad Block Plus Filter Maintainer "rick752" Dies At 56 (Monday 06th of April 2009 11:30:02 PM)
A user on Reddit pointed out that Richard "rick752" Petnel, maintainer of one of the most
popular filter lists for Ad Block Plus, has passed away at age 56. In an article last year
Petnel described a bit of what he was up against in ...
(more)Chrome EULA Reserves the Right To Filter Your Web (Sunday 05th of April 2009 09:15:02 PM)
An unsigned reader writes "Recently, I decided to try out Google Chrome. With my usual mistrust
of Google, I decided to carefully read the EULA before installing the software. I paused when I
stumbled upon this section: '7.3 Google reserves the right ...
(more)Some Of Australia's Tubes Are About To Be Filtered (Thursday 12th of February 2009 09:00:01 AM)
Slatterz writes "The first phase of Australia's suspect
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(more)Spam Filtering For Small/Medium Business? (Sunday 11th of May 2008 07:00:08 PM)
Or_is_it writes "The company I work for has been growing dramatically and I've been charged
with the task of being the gatekeeper for our GFI Spam filters. This involves manually
inspecting the subject line/to/from for all caught messages in each filter ...
(more)Australian Internet Filter Enters Trial Phase (Wednesday 27th of February 2008 01:00:07 PM)
Blake writes "News.com.au reports "The Government's plan to have online network service
providers filter pornography and other the web* content deemed inappropriate for propagation is
going full-steam ahead. [...] The trial will evaluate ISP-level the ...
(more)Australia to Offer Widespread ISP-level Filtering (Friday 10th of August 2007 10:55:13 PM)
Phurge writes "According to a Sydney Morning Herald article, the Australia government has
decided to take the controversial step of having service provider service providers filter web
content at the request of parents, in a crackdown on online bad language, ...
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