Censoring Australian Censors' Blacklist

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 "

Comments

list of banned films?

[Super_Frosty]

I have some free time and a new TV... where can I get the list of banned porno films?

Re:Timothy complaining about censorship

[ergo98]

/. is not censoring. They don't delete anything, it's all still there, and anyone on the planer can read it, even if it's at -1.

Can't posts actually go to -2 at which point they are deleted? I thought I read something like that.

On another topic: I use to get mod points quite often, but in the past several months have never. Is there a moderation perma-revoke, and if so how is it triggered? Metamods disagreeing with my mods? The Slashdot crew? I'm very curious.

Re:Timothy complaining about censorship

[pyramid termite]

Not quite true - once the threads are archived all -1 posts are gone aren't they? Including a very famous one ...

Re:Who cares? Australia sucks anyways.

[lukecs]

2 words

"Ignorant American"

Re:The responses to this article...

[cyril3]

Do not blame us for bloody Stephen King. Maybe he should have a sign on the front door "I'm not dead. I'm just a very heavy sleeper."

Re:"Asylum seekers" - Re:The Australian government

[Mike Connell]

The fact that this is +4 insightful is probably the straw that broke the camels back for me and /.

These people are supposedly fleeing for their lives from places like *Turkey* (UK travel agents sell package cruise holidays to Turkey for f***'s sake )

Is there any logic here? UK Travel agents will ship you anywhere for cash. China! Random african countries! Russia! Israel! You think none of these places abuse human rights enough for anyone to be fleeing their life? Please. As for turkey read this

Just ask any UK citizen which system they think is better, Australia's or their own.

The UK's. And I'm not the only one, even if we are a minority.

Re:Sorry, gotta do this

[cavemanf16]

Well, I can't reply to micheal's bullshit at this point, so I'll just point it out here. He's basically calling me a giant loser too for sitting on slashdot practically every day for over a year now as I have over 500 comments to my credit at this point. Guess what? I have an extraordinarily busy life! I work full-time at a job where I CAN spend time reading up on current issues and writing things to slashdot from time to time. I go to school part-time, and I have a fiancee and church obligations all at the same time!

And guess what, my fiancee is a first year law student, and while she does know more than me in some areas, she is amazed at my comprhension of the DMCA and copyright law. All of which I learned by reading articles, comments, rants, and raves from information found right here on Slashdot. Michael is the one that needs to quit bashing the people who make Slashdot such a visited site on the internet and start finding ways to get us to spend money to make him and his cohorts rich. Unfortunately, I won't give money out to businesses that ridicule their users and try to wield absolute power for the good of the 'masses'. *cough* Microsoft, RIAA, MPAA, etc. *cough*.