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Wikileaks Pages Added To Australian Internet Blacklist
cpudney writes "The Sydney Morning Herald reports that the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has added several Wikileaks pages to its controversial blacklist. The blacklisted pages contain Denmark's list of banned websites. Simply linking to addresses in ACMA's blacklist attracts an $11,000 per-day fine as the hosts of the popular Australian broadband forum, Whirlpool, discovered last week when they published a forum post that linked to an anti-abortion web-site recently added to ACMA's blacklist. The blacklist is secret, immune to FOI requests and forms the basis of the Australian government's proposed mandatory ISP-level Internet censorship legislation. Wikileaks' response to notification of the blacklisting states: 'The first rule of censorship is that you cannot talk about censorship.'" So Australians aren't allowed to see what it is that the Danes aren't allowed to see?
Any Australians fined yet for coming here?
What is your security clearance, citizen?
but but but.. urrgh... fair enough.
Don't point that gun at him, he's an unpaid intern!
Don't worry. No right thinking citizen would ever do anything that is on the list. What more do you need to know?
I'm afraid if you're not ultraviolet, you can't ask that question. Can you tell me if the chainsaw looks like it's going fast enough, look closer.
I loved that game.
"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education." -Albert Einstein
Nope, they're immediately detained on some manner of prison island, no questions asked.
At least in Denmark, you can drive a little ways and get your Internet uncensored.
For those unlucky souls in Australia who can't access their favorite aberrent websites don't really have any good recourse.
Wifi outside the US embasy?
I know, it's like these people read Kafka for ideas on how to F things up.
OT, but I once had a friend in the Marine Corps who had his clearance suspended due to an investigation into his supposed leaking of classified information (for which he was eventually cleared). The investigation contained Secret information, so they couldn't show him the charges that were pressed against him. We had some good laughs about Kafka, especially once it was all over.
Tic-Tac-Toe, Global Thermonuclear War, and relationships all have the same winning move.
Nope, they're immediately detained on some manner of prison island, no questions asked.
Yeah, but it's also filled with lots of women with Australian accents. Please excuse me while I go find some felony to commit...
Yeah, that's a great idea. All you have to do to get a copy of the blacklist is check every URL on the entire internet twice. I'll get my iPhone started on that!
A slashdotter who didn't build his own computer is like a Jedi who didn't build his own lightsaber.
Isn't that what we brits used australia for in the first place?
And you used America to get rid of your puritans ;) Seems pretty ironic that your convicted criminals were more loyal to the Empire than your religious zealots.
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
The part I like to point out, in impolite company, is how the Puritans were so insufferable that the DUTCH actually threw them out as well.
The cost of that cleanup, of course, will be borne by taxpayers, not industry.
The Puritans were so insufferable that they couldn't even stand each other, which is how Connecticut got founded (by one of the same guys the Dutch threw out...)
i herd you liek blacklists so we put a blacklist on our blacklist so you couldnt browse things while you couldnt browsing things.
They could save a few steps and just ban Kevin Bacon.