But a majority also want to decide for themselves whether they're covered by Internal Affairs' censorship technology, according to an InternetNZ survey. PLUS: The ISPs who have chosen to use the govt's website filter.

Pair say technology will be used to block objectionable, exploitive images of children. It echoes the DIA's controversial filter. UPDATED with industry reaction. 

It's a couple of decades late, but Internal Affairs is cracking down on junk faxes, which from today lose their exemption under the Unsolicited Electronic Messages Act.

The majority of child pornography images are shared across the internet through peer-to-peer files and not through websites, InternetNZ says.

Because of this, the government’s development of the Digital Child Exploitation Filtering System will not necessarily stop these images from being shared between abusers or decrease the demand for child pornography.

Censorship software is coming to the New Zealand internet - but unlike Australia, our site filtering programme is voluntary for internet service providers, and centres around software custom developed to exclusively target images of child sexual abuse.

Bloggers have been immediately dubious about the Department of Internal Affairs’ new filtering programme, officially announced today.