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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:
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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
Recent:
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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