Sentence examples for mandatory filter from inspiring English sources

A few hours later Turnbull released a statement saying the Coalition had "never" supported a mandatory filter.

Mr. White said the mandatory filter was unlikely to work because it would not monitor illegal activity on peer-to-peer or file-sharing networks, where most child pornography and other illegal content is exchanged.

More than 85,000 users have also signed an online petition created by the left-wing advocacy group GetUp, which calls the mandatory filter "a serious threat to our democratic values".

Yet some companies that stand to benefit from the mandatory filtering legislation did not support it.

Donna Rice Hughes, an opponent of pornography who has supported mandatory filtering, said the law contained "a tremendous amount of flexibility".

Yet a commission appointed by Congress to study protecting children online has pointedly declined to recommend mandatory filtering.

Sky's brand director, Lyssa McGowan, said the mandatory filters would be rolled out over the next 10 days.

Four trade groups based in the United States have sent a statement to the Chinese government asking it to "reconsider implementing its new mandatory filtering software requirement".

"We looked at mandatory filtering" and unanimously rejected it, said Donald Telage, chairman of the commission and an executive of Network Solutions, the company that manages many Internet functions.

The coalition of plaintiffs includes the American Library Association, the American Civil Liberties Union and Jeffrey L. Pollock, a Republican Congressional candidate who favored mandatory filtering until he discovered that his own campaign's Web site was blocked by one of the most popular filtering programs.

The group, which included anti-pornography activists like Donna Rice Hughes of the advocacy group Protectkids.com, declined to support mandatory filtering because the technology was not yet good enough to block only the materials users want blocked, Mr. Telage said.