After Australia's Senator Stephen Conroy's plans to filter the Internet earned him the title of Internet Villain of the Year, today there is more chin-scratching over the plans.

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Communications minister Stephen Conroy has put the Government on a collision course with Telstra, warning the telco giant to split its wholesale and retail arms, or face business restrictions.

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THE Rudd Government has indicated that it may back away from its mandatory internet filtering plan.

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Australia's second largest internet service provider, Optus, has agreed to take part in the Federal Government's internet filtering trial.

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Even our Communications Minister is confused. Chris Dziemborowicz explains why a dentist, a horror movie and a gambling site were on the leaked ACMA list of prohibited websites

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Shadow Communications Minister Nick Minchin has called for Communications Minister Stephen Conroy to apologise for his criticism of iiNet's Federal Court defence and warned it might lead to legal action.

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Someone has put the Minister for Communications Stephen Conroy up for auction on eBay.

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Communications Minister Stephen Conroy says a technical error is to blame for the black-listing of a website with artist Bill Henson's photographs on it.

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Last night Senator Stephen Conroy, Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy uttered nine words that hold enormous implications for Australian internet users.

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It was all just too, too ironic last night. There was the Minister for Communications on the ABC's Q & A answering questions about the blocking of internet filters and an ACMA "blacklist" which has been leaked and published.

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The Federal Government will begin trawling blog sites as part of a new media monitoring strategy, with official documents singling out a website critical of the Communications Minister, Stephen Conroy.

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Last Friday, Communications Minister Stephen Conroy announced to the national media that the National Broadband Network was not a dead parrot, countering my suggestion earlier that week that it had kicked the bucket, had ceased to be and was pushing up daisies, etc, etc.

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The Federal Government will begin trawling blog sites as part of a new media monitoring strategy, with official documents singling out a website critical of the Communications Minister, Stephen Conroy.

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Wikileaks claims it now has up to date ACMA blacklists of banned websites dated 11 March and 18 March — only days old.

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Wikileaks claims it now has up to date ACMA blacklists of banned websites dated 11 March and 18 March — only days old.

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Last Friday, Australian Communications Minister Stephen Conroy announced to the national media that the National Broadband Network was not a dead parrot, countering my suggestion earlier that week that it had kicked the bucket, had ceased to be and was pushing up daisies, etc, et …

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ACMA's secret list of banned web pages has reportedly been leaked to Wikileaks.org. ...

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A leaked list of 'banned' web pages leaked on an anti-censorship site is not an official blacklist, Communications Minister Stephen Conroy says.

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Stephen Conroy's Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy has refused the iiNet-backed Tech Wired Australia request to access the expert panel's recommendations on the National Broadband Network bids using freedom of information laws.

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Telstra's attempts to cover up the fact that it tried to silence Fake Stephen Conroy have backfired spectacularly.

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Tentacle-R-pe was isolated to Japan until Tim Berners-Lee and his allies unleashed the interweb upon us; opening a portal between the tiny Pacific nation and the rest of the world.

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The results from Whirlpool's annual Australian Broadband Survey are in, and as always they make interesting reading.

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THE federal Government is considering mandating that all major new infrastructure projects such as bridges, roads and railways have smart sensors built into them to monitor maintenance and help prevent disasters like the Minnesota bridge collapse.

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The Government's plan to introduce mandatory internet censorship has effectively been scuttled, following an independent senator's decision to join the Greens and Opposition in blocking any legislation required to get the scheme started.

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The Senator's mistake lies in a concept which IT folk call "scalability." A system is "scalable" if it copes gracefully with additional load. The Sydney Harbour Tunnel is not scalable because too many cars jam it up.

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