""To strengthen cyber safety this Government will introduce legislative amendments to the Broadcast Services Act to require all ISPs to block material rated refused classification that is hosted on overseas servers and therefore not subject to the existing take-down regime."" - Matt G

"What we're talking about is a filter that can only intercept accidental access to prohibited material," he said. "Any motivated user will be able to get around it, it will be quite easy, so who is this being targeted at?" - Matt G

Oliver MacColl, the acting national director of lobby group GetUp!, says Senator Conroy's firewall plan hands control of the internet to "the moral minority". "It was through public complaints mechanisms like the one Mr Conroy is proposing that classic literature such as The Catcher in the Rye, Ulysses and The Story of the Kelly Gang were once banned in Australia," he said. - Matt G