Aussie ISP pulls out of firewall trial

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    Date: 
    23 March 2009

    iiNet, Australia's third largest Internet Service Provider, is withdrawing from the government's censorship trial.

    Communications minister Stephen Conroy is pushing ahead with a trial of filtering technology to clean up the internet as seen by Aussie citizens. Conroy claimed the list of banned websites were all related to child sexual abuse, but the publication of the list revealed this to be untrue. The list included euthanasia sites, Christian and satanic sites and even a Queensland dentist.