Australian Idol And ISP Censorship

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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The funny thing is...

[tod_miller]

When her singing career goes down hill they usually turn to more sordid forms of making the headlines, so the complaint might be reversed in 12 months!

Although it would be a very nasty fetish site by the looks of it... *shudder*

Seriously... she could land a part in shrek 3 just for saving on CGI. A bit of green face paint and that guy out of bro-sis, and you have a winner! :-)

Seriously, you cannot just funnel arbitary web traffic how you want because the DNS system isn't "just how you want".

Pay someone to proof read your url's, or suffer the consequences. I mean, /. doesn't read anything it publishes and does ok! :-)