Senator Stephen Conroy - Telecommunications Minister in the new Labour Government, announced that “it will be mandatory for all internet service providers to provide clean feeds, or ISP filtering, to houses and schools that are free of pornography and inappropriate material”.
Announced on 31st December and reported on ABC News, the implications for libraries are not clear. Check out the reports on TechCrunch, and Kathryn’s examination at Librarians Matter.
Nothing at this stage from ALIA, but its only 2nd January and with the holiday yesterday, we should expect something from them soon.
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January 4, 2008 at 13:20
ALIA is on the (continuing) case of internet filtering - never fear ! To get the full background visit http://www.alia.org.au/advocacy/internet.access/
and more will be updated here during 2008.
And you know that you can contact the ALIA Executive Director, or any of the Board Members at any time to discuss.