The Sydney Morning Herald’s Asher Moses is reporting that Independent Senator Nick Xenophon has withdrawn all support for Senator Stephen Conroy’s mandatory Internet filtering scheme, otherwise known as the “Cleanfeed“.

You can check out our past coverage on the topic here, here and here.

Without Xenophon’s support, the Government won’t have the numbers to get the plan over the line.

While the Twitter backchannel isn’t counting this as a win, just yet, it definitely is another great step forward for the coalition of ISPs, community groups and experts who have fought against the Government’s ridiculous scare campaign since the plan was first announced.

Hopefully we can finally put this thing to rest and, amongst other things, start getting people to return their twitter avatars to normal…I’m forgetting what people actually look like!

More news as it arises…