The Australian National Internet Filtering Scheme

In light of the prime minsters' statement today that we shouldn't "treat the Internet differently from any form of communications, like films and books and so on", Stephen Control, Minister for the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Eekonomy, revealed plans to bring all electronic communications into line with government policy.

"Following on from the prime minister's reasoning, we are expanding our proposed regime of censorship to encompass filtering of such things as email, blog comments, online chat, online video, online games and in-game conversations, Internet phones, the public telephone systems, SMS, Facebook "likes", and Google search results," Mr Control explained.