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Blacklisted websites revealed
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| The Australian communications regulator's top-secret blacklist of banned
| websites has been leaked on to the web and paints a harrowing picture of
| Australia's forthcoming internet censorship regime.
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| Wikileaks, an anonymous document repository for whistleblowers, obtained the
| list, which has been seen by this website, and plans to publish it for public
| consumption on its website imminently.
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http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/news/technology/blacklisted-websites-revealed/2009/03/19/1237054961383.html
http://tinyurl.com/c49o27
Wikileaks tells Aus censorship minister to rack off
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| Conroy claimed the list published yesterday of sites banned in Australia was
| not the full Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) list. But
| he also threatened a police investigation and possible legal action against
| the leaker.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/03/20/aussie_firewall_/
CORRESPONDENCE: A New Era of Corruption?
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| Critics of online media raise concerns about the ease with which gossip and
| unsubstantiated claims can be propagated on the Net. However, on the Net we
| have all learned to read with a grain of salt between our teeth, like
| Russians drinking tea through a sugar cube. The traditional media, to the
| contrary, commanded respect and imposed authority. It was precisely this
| respect and authority that made The New York Times' reporting on weapons of
| mass destruction in Iraq so instrumental in legitimating the lies that the
| Bush administration used to lead this country to war. Two weeks ago and then
| last Friday, The Washington Post was still allowing George Will to make false
| claims about the analysis of a scientific study of global sea ice levels
| without batting an eyelid, reflecting the long-standing obfuscation of the
| scientific consensus on the causes of climate change by newspapers that, in
| the name of balanced reporting, reported the controversy rather than the
| actual scientific consensus. On some of these, the greatest challenges of our
| time, newspapers have failed us. The question then, on the background of this
| mixed record is whether the system that will replace the mass mediated public
| sphere can do at least as well.
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http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=c84d2eda-0e95-42fe-99a2-5400e7dd8eab
Recent:
Australia secretly censors Wikileaks press release and Danish Internet
censorship list, 16 Mar 2009
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| The first rule of censorship is that you cannot talk about censorship.
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| In late 2008, Wikileaks released the secret Internet censorship list for
| Denmark, together with a press release condemning the practice for lack of
| public or judicial oversight. Here's an extract from the press release:
|
| The list is generated without judicial or public oversight and is kept
| secret by the ISPs using it. Unaccountability is intrinsic to such a
| secret censorship system.
|
| Most sites on the list are still censored (i.e must be on the current
| list), even though many have clearly changed owners or were possibly even
| wrongly placed on the list, for example the Dutch transport company
| Vanbokhorst.
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| The list has been leaked because cases such as Thailand and Finland
| demonstrate that once a secret censorship system is established for
| pornographic content the same system can rapidly expand to cover other
| material, including political material, at the worst possible moment --
| when government needs reform.
|
| Two days ago Wikileaks released the secret Internet censorship list for
| Thailand. Of the 1,203 sites censored this year, all have the internally
| noted reason of "lese majeste" -- criticizing the Royal family. Like
| Denmark, the Thai censorship system was originally promoted as a
| mechanism to prevent the flow of child pornography.
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http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Australia_secretly_censors_Wikileaks_press_release_and_Danish_Internet_censorship_list%2C_16_Mar_2009
Home Office Utterly Clueless on Pornography
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| Against the background of countries like Australia secretly blocking
| Wikileaks, this use of unappointed censors that are never questioned or even
| checked by any kind of review body is really getting dire. When will these
| politicians come to their senses?
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/03/home-office-utterly-clueless-on.html
China Congratulates EU on AT&T's Amendments Being Accepted to the Telecoms
Package
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| For example, Wikipedia has always been a source of headache for the Chinese
| government and the Copyright Enforcers alike. Entries such as Falun Gong, the
| IP filtering notes about AT&T, and AACS encryption key are very unfriendly to
| us, and therefore harm the society, since we represent the interest of the
| entire society. With these amendments, we can better prevent the spread of
| such harmful information to the society.
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http://blog.ofset.org/ckhung/index.php?post/093d
Aussie internet-net will be drawn wider
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| The Australian government is already planning to block legal internet content
| when its "great firewall" eventually goes live. That is the fear expressed by
| some of the most trenchant critics of this scheme, including Senators Simon
| Birmingham (for the Liberal Party) and Scott Ludlam (for the Greens)
| following another shift in emphasis by Communications Minister Stephen Conroy
| in evidence to the Environment, Communications and the Arts committee on
| Monday.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/25/oz_internet_net/
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