Category Archives: Internet

National Broadband Network

April 8, 2009 – 12:52 am

The federal government’s announcement that they will fund the building a National Broadband Network at an estimated cost of $43 billion is the sort of story guaranteed to get internet sites and net nerds buzzing with comment. A lot of the comments from bloggers and twitterers that I have seen thus far seem to be [...]

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Effective alternatives to mandatory Internet filtering

March 25, 2009 – 6:27 am

Last night I attended a forum organised by New Matilda on the federal government’s plan to introduce a mandatory filter for Internet Service Providers.  I usually don’t find forums where all the speakers hold roughly the same view particularly enlightening, but the speeches were all to the point and not too long, which allowed a [...]

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