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