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Following the earlier release of the video "Collateral Murder," WikiLeaks has again raised the ire of the US authorities by making available around 90,000 communications related to the war in Afghanistan.

38,427 people can't be wrong, can they?

In an attempt to gauge the real level of support for or against Sen. Conroy's Internet Filter proposal, a large number of IT media outlets are supporting a combined survey.

It would seem that Senator Conroy is on a mission to shut down the courts.  First step is the Internet filter - with that in place, it won't be possible to break the law related to banned material.  Easy, no more cases before the courts.  What's next?

Today's announcement that any implementation of the proposed Internet Filter will be delayed until after the completion of a 12-month review of the "Refused Classification" category has support from Electronic Frontiers Australia, except for the part where it will be revisited after the review.

It took just 3 hours for auDA to terminate stephenconroy.com.au yet 6 weeks since a complaint was lodged against abbottfacts.com.au, nothing has happened (Updated: date errors corrected).

iiNet CEO Michael Malone has reasserted the company's total opposition to the Internet filter, despite claims to the contrary by Sen. Conroy.