SealLion
29.03.09, 07:56
The Australian communications regulator's top-secret blacklist of banned websites has been leaked on to the web and paints a harrowing picture of Australia's forthcoming internet censorship regime.
Wikileaks, an anonymous document repository for whistleblowers, obtained the list, which has been seen by this website, and plans to publish it for public consumption on its website imminently.
Wikileaks has previously published the blacklists for Thailand, Denmark and Norway.
But about half of the sites on the list are not related to child porn and include a slew of online poker sites, YouTube links, regular gay and straight porn sites, Wikipedia entries, euthanasia sites, websites of fringe religions such as satanic sites, fetish sites, Christian sites, the website of a tour operator and even a Queensland dentist.
That's not all:
check this out:
.... secret censorship systems (are) "invariably corrupted", pointing to the Thailand censorship list, which was originally billed as a mechanism to prevent child pornography but contained more than 1200 sites classified as criticising the royal family.
I think I was suggesting this briefly in one of my other threads. That such info serves to justify a government's own agenda. Not necessarily the people's interest.
What's even more unfortunate is this:
..... This week saw Australia joining China and the United Arab Emirates as the only countries censoring Wikileaks.
a democracy practicing censorship??
I can understand China and the UAE, but Australia?
Anyways. Here's the link;
Leaked Australian blacklist reveals banned sites - Wikileaks (http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Leaked_Australian_blacklist_reveals_banned_sites)
Wikileaks, an anonymous document repository for whistleblowers, obtained the list, which has been seen by this website, and plans to publish it for public consumption on its website imminently.
Wikileaks has previously published the blacklists for Thailand, Denmark and Norway.
But about half of the sites on the list are not related to child porn and include a slew of online poker sites, YouTube links, regular gay and straight porn sites, Wikipedia entries, euthanasia sites, websites of fringe religions such as satanic sites, fetish sites, Christian sites, the website of a tour operator and even a Queensland dentist.
That's not all:
check this out:
.... secret censorship systems (are) "invariably corrupted", pointing to the Thailand censorship list, which was originally billed as a mechanism to prevent child pornography but contained more than 1200 sites classified as criticising the royal family.
I think I was suggesting this briefly in one of my other threads. That such info serves to justify a government's own agenda. Not necessarily the people's interest.
What's even more unfortunate is this:
..... This week saw Australia joining China and the United Arab Emirates as the only countries censoring Wikileaks.
a democracy practicing censorship??
I can understand China and the UAE, but Australia?
Anyways. Here's the link;
Leaked Australian blacklist reveals banned sites - Wikileaks (http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Leaked_Australian_blacklist_reveals_banned_sites)