Australia's de-facto Internet filter may block 250k sites
The Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC), has told a hearing of the Australian Parliament's Senate Estimates committee that its attempt to block access to the IP address of one investment scam site could have blocked 250,000 sites in total.
The Commission told Estimates yesterday that it first conceived of the idea of using “section 313 notices” to attack investment scammers in 2012. By the kind of thundering coincidence that would destroy any detective novel, that was also about the time that the Australian Federal Police (AFP) started using the same regime to get Australia's largest ISPs to filter out content on the Interpol “worst of the worst” list. The AFP did so after Australia backed away from a policy to build a national internet filter.
