When Kevin Rudd was campaigning to become Labor prime minister of Australia last year, he promised an Internet content-filtering scheme that was essentially censorship to protect the nation’s youth.
Once he had the post, the government announced the scheme, its Plan for Cyber-Safety, and there are plans for live trials of ISP-level content filtering before Christmas, according to the Guardian.
The plan, which will cost around $80 million US, was put together by Senator Stephen Conroy, the minister for broadband, communications and the digital economy, and is intended to protect children from pornography and violent websites while bringing an outright ban of illegal material.
