Aussie firewall nears death

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    Date: 
    8 September 2009

    The Australian Senate Opposition leader Nick Minchin has joined the growing chorus of voices against Communications Minister Stephen Conroy's plans for mandatory ISP-level filtering.

    The project may not yet be deceased, but it is without doubt on the critical list.

    Senator Minchin said the government had not only failed to release the results of recent trials of internet filtering software, but it had also refused to come clean on what measures would determine whether the trial could be considered successful or not.