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Censoring Australian Censors' Blacklist

Posted by timothy on from the here's-a-list-of-urls dept.

steveroehrs writes: "'Your access to the Web is being censored by the Government -- but it refuses to reveal exactly what it is we are not allowed to see.' Despite the attempts of Electronic Frontiers Australia in obtaining a copy of the Australian Internet black-list, the Australian government is still refusing to release the list to the public. This is in stark contrast to the situation for film classification, where the list is freely available. Article here "

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  1. Supreme stupidity by Alien54 · · Score: 3, Funny
    Typically, when there is a blacklist like this, the things that are black listed include sites that would be embarresing to the government, having nothing to do with the morality of the public, and everything with the lack of morality of the government officials involved.

    Not that this is actually happening, but this is typical of what you can expect.

    I suppose that someone could do a distributed computing mapping of the australian black list space, and compare it with as database of the real DNS list from outside of AU.

    This almost sounds like a version of the land of OZ where the wicked witch never died.

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  2. Well, duh... by brogdon · · Score: 3, Funny

    Think of what's on the list. :)

    If I went to the US government and said give a list of the latest warez and porn sites, they'd toss me out on my ear!

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  3. Chicken and the Egg by mESSDan · · Score: 4, Funny
    This article brings to light a very valid point. What came first, the "banned" url, or censorship of the censorship of the banned url?

    We may never know.. ;)

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  4. Re:This seems a bit obvious... by frank_adrian314159 · · Score: 3, Funny
    I don't see any militants demanding that Elementary School Spanking 16 be released

    They banned this fine educational gem? What kind of perverse government do you have?!?!?!

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  5. Re:This seems a bit obvious... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    SPEAK THE TRUTH BROTHA! And the only way to escape their censorship of your thoughts is to flee to the mountains (after making a tinfoil hat to keep out "brain drains.") You can live on squirrels and turnips deep underneath the sea.


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