For the tidy sum of $125.8 million AUD, Australia will be treated to the world’s first nationalized internet content filtering in a democratic first-world nation. Under the terms of the new plan, Australian residents will be forced onto a nationally-mandated blacklist that filters illegal content at the ISP level. Users would further have the choice to opt into an “unsuitable content” filter designed to pander to everyone’s love of children in the filtering of pornographic and other sensitive content.
Under the newly-announced plan, billed as “cyber-safety,” trials are beginning shortly with the nation’s largest ISPs. Under the trials, the filter’s efficacy, ease of circumvention and speed impact will be evaluated.
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