All has been quiet in the tech world in the last few weeks thanks to Christmas. However with CES well and truly under way things have been shocked back into action, as has people’s attention on Australia’s proposed internet filter and censorship around the world.

Australia

Crikey | The world smirks at Conroy’s censorship plan
Adelaide Now | Why Kevin Rudd’s internet censorship plan will not work
Brooklyn Law School | Filtering in Oz: Australia’s foray into internet censorship
News.com.au | Internet filtering plan may extend to P2P traffic
ABC News | Net filtering trial delay ‘another bungle’

The rest of the world

DailyTech | 2009: The year of the thought criminal
SMH | China threatens massive internet crackdown
AAP | Thailand blocks 2,300 web sites it says insults King Bhumibol
Huffington Post | Fair trade suffers when China censors the internet
PC World Canada | Beating internet censorship - the Canadian way
Belfast Telegraph | When internet censorship goes too far
APC | US dumps unpopular internet filter plan
Broadband Reports | UK eyes website rating system, filters
ZDNet AU | UK Wikipedia censorship easy to evade