Australian Idol And ISP Censorship

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday November 23, 2004 @02:40AM from the sex-censorship-and-a-land-down-under dept.

fembots writes "Teenage fans of the new Australian Idol Casey Donovan rushed to the homepage of a dead gay porn icon with the same name when a URL was advertised in major newspapers without the .au country code. ISP BigPond took matters to its own hand by redirecting millions of its subscribers' requests back to the Idol's website. On top of that, BigPond lodged a formal complaint with the Australian Broadcasting Authority on the basis Mr Donovan's site may contain X-rated material or material that would be denied classification by the Office of Film and Literature Classification."

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so by Run4yourlives · 2004-11-23 06:43 · Score: 1, Offtopic

Who was the idiot that chose .com.au as the TLD for Australia in the first place? What the heck is that?

Why not .co.au like the UK, (.co.uk) or just .au like canada (.ca)?

Dumb Dumb Dumb.