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Australia's Censored URL List Remains Hidden

Posted by timothy on from the what-you-don't-know dept.

kinsalis writes: "There is an article about the Electronic Frontiers Australia's failed attempt to have access to a list of sites which where deemed worth of censorship under Australian Internet censorship law. While it stands to reason that most of the sites would be child pornography, what is to stop someone slipping in any old url if no one can check the list?"

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  1. You need a list? by ObviousGuy · · Score: 2, Funny

    What? You don't trust your gov't?

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  2. my one hope... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... that goatse.cx is included on the list. I am sick of it.

  3. Re:What about Google cache? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Then you can only get ASCII child pr0n.

  4. Re:Speaking as an Australian by BlastMaster · · Score: 2, Funny

    q-soe said: "we do not have a constitution like the US (we do have one but not like yours) and no free speach amendments."

    .au does have a constitution that allows free speech. It's called the GPL.

    Oh, wait... that's an OSS license.

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