A Blacklist for Websites Backfires in Australia

[SealLion]

Now I know why I wasn't able to access Wikileaks.org in the last couple of days.

Here's why and what I found out:

check it out:

It must have seemed like a good idea at the time.........why not gather up all the URLs for sites that promote such acts — child pornography, extreme violence, weapon-making and so on — and have Internet Service Providers (ISPs) simply block them? Wouldn't that make the internet safer for families and children?...............the Australian Communications and Media Authority.....put together such a list and sent it to more than a dozen companies...........(and) at least one person who received the list handed it over to Wikileaks, an online clearinghouse for anonymous submissions of sensitive material. The ACMA "blacklist", as it became known, was promptly posted online, becoming a handy compendium of internet depravity in one convenient package — courtesy of the Australian government. After it was posted, a surge in traffic caused Wikileaks to crash temporarily.

Here's the link:

A Blacklist for Websites Backfires in Australia - TIME

I know mike's from Australia. So he might be interested in this.



Here's more info on the ' blacklist' list:

Leaked Australian blacklist reveals banned sites - Wikileaks

Internet censorship???

[anon]

Internet censorship???

Definitely.

But since there are many ways to bypass blocks and access censored sites, they're just proving Wikileaks right when they say they post stuff governments have interest on you not knowing.