This sort of ruling could see a site, like FSD, shut down because of a complaint about a single opinion expressed by a contributor.

The laws require internet service providers and websites to invest a large amount of effort in monitoring and keeping logs of their services. They also have to comply massive censorship, let alone the loss of reputation that occurs when users cannot access websites.

AUSTRALIA'S mandatory internet filter is being primed to block 10,000 websites as part of a blacklist of unspecified "unwanted content", Broadband Minister Stephen Conroy revealed in Federal Parliament.

SafeSquid's Cookie Filter Section, allows you to control exchange of cookies between users and websites. You can define what websites are allowed / denied to exchange cookies with users, either to enhance security, or to disable the users from logging into their personal accounts.

The Social networking sites view enables you to access a couple of social networking sites. There should be more such social networking websites in future releases, but for now, only two are supported.

Hundreds of websites joined an Australia Day "internet blackout" today to protest against the Government's web censorship agenda

The Symbian Foundation expects its web sites to be shut down on the 17th of December. The source code for the Symbian operating system will continue to be available on the open source organisation's site until then. Thereafter, it will only be available on request

The Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act would create a blacklist of domain names that the government thinks are involved in copyright infringement. Internet service providers and others would be required to block any domains on the list.

Obama would be granted powers to seize control of and even shut down the internet under a new bill that describes the global internet as a US "national asset".