[ItNews] Conroy reveals plans to censor the internet

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The Federal Government will introduce laws to make ISP-level filtering mandatory for all refused-classification material hosted overseas.

Grants will be made to providers that wish to further filter X18+ sites.

Senator Conroy justified the filter, saying that « most Australians acknowledge that there is some internet content which is not acceptable in any civilised society ».

The Government announced that the list of blocked RC content would be compiled « through a public complaints mechanism ».

But these public complaints will only form a subset of the total content blocked. […]

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