THE federal government has completed a trial of blocking pornography and other online content deemed inappropriate for children at the internet service provider level.
A report on the participants and results had been sent to Communications Minister Stephen Conroy, Australian Communications and Media Authority spokesperson Donald Robertson said.
Enex TestLab was awarded a tender in January to conduct the closed trials in Tasmania on behalf of the authority.
Tim Marshall, a spokesperson for Senator Conroy, confirmed receipt of the report but said it was too soon to comment on the findings. "The Minister will consider the report and will make comment in due course," Mr Marshall said.
Leading up to the trial, internet content filtering vendors -- both hardware and software -- were invited to participate.
The number of participants is unclear but Senator Conroy has said live field trials would follow soon after the Tasmanian test.
Filters based at internet service providers are meant to block inappropriate web pages and automatically relay a clean feed to households. Before last year's federal election, Labor promised to introduce ISP-based filters to make the web safer for children.
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