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A proposed Internet filter dubbed the "Great Aussie Firewall" is promising to make Australia one of the strictest Internet regulators among democratic countries.

Consumers, civil rights activists, engineers, Internet providers and politicians from opposition parties are among the critics of a mandatory Internet filter that would block at least 1,300 websites prohibited by the government — mostly those said to involve child pornography, excessive violence, instructions in crime or drug use and advocacy of terrorism cash advance.

The list of prohibited sites, which the government isn’t making public, is arbitrary and not subject to legal scrutiny, critics said, leaving it to the government or lawmakers to pursue their own online agendas.

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