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General Discussion => General Discussion Boards => News and Politics => Topic started by: Eriny on March 19, 2009, 03:00:50 pm

Title: Blacklisted!
Post by: Eriny on March 19, 2009, 03:00:50 pm: http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/news/technology/blacklisted-websites-revealed/2009/03/19/1237054961383.html

"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."

"...about half of the sites on the list are not related to child porn and include a slew of online poker sites, YouTube links, regular gay and straight porn sites, Wikipedia entries, euthanasia sites, websites of fringe religions such as satanic sites, fetish sites, Christian sites, the website of a tour operator and even a Queensland dentist."

I had a good laugh about this with friends over lunch today, but it's actually really quite scary. What's more, the community at large doesn't seem to care a great deal (?).
Title: Re: Blacklisted!
Post by: ninwa on March 19, 2009, 03:09:10 pm: Hahaha it was bound to happen some time (the leaking onto the web). Although yes, I'm scared too ...

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But about half of the sites on the list are not related to child porn and include a slew of online poker sites, YouTube links, regular gay and straight porn sites, Wikipedia entries, euthanasia sites, websites of fringe religions such as satanic sites, fetish sites, Christian sites, the website of a tour operator and even a Queensland dentist.

Why on earth would they blacklist a dentist?!
Title: Re: Blacklisted!
Post by: GerrySly on March 19, 2009, 04:14:23 pm: This is great news, I am doing my English issues oral on Australian "porn" filters, great for my argument :)
Title: Re: Blacklisted!
Post by: TrueLight on March 19, 2009, 04:45:51 pm: the rudd government is a disgrace, crossing fingers that this does not pass, a complete mess.
Title: Re: Blacklisted!
Post by: ninwa on March 19, 2009, 05:08:05 pm: Quote from: TrueLight on March 19, 2009, 04:45:51 pm
the rudd government is a disgrace
Title: Re: Blacklisted!
Post by: ninwa on March 19, 2009, 05:19:59 pm: Apparently the list is a fake:
http://www.news.com.au/technology/story/0,28348,25210931-5014239,00.html
Title: Re: Blacklisted!
Post by: TrueLight on March 19, 2009, 05:22:54 pm: doesn't matter, the whole idea of regulating the internet is absurd
Title: Re: Blacklisted!
Post by: ninwa on March 19, 2009, 05:43:58 pm: Indeed. I now regret ever voting Labor and I think a LOT of people do. Idiot government >_>
Title: Re: Blacklisted!
Post by: costargh on March 19, 2009, 06:05:20 pm: Um... can someone tell me why wikileaks is inaccessible?

Please don't tell me that it's been blocked...
Title: Re: Blacklisted!
Post by: ninwa on March 19, 2009, 06:08:25 pm: Maybe this is why?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/03/18/aussie_firewall_wikileaks/

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The Great Australian Firewall has claimed another victim - some pages of Wikileaks have been added to the blacklist of websites which Australians are not allowed to look at.
Title: Re: Blacklisted!
Post by: costargh on March 19, 2009, 06:36:43 pm: I can't even go on wikileaks at all
Title: Re: Blacklisted!
Post by: costargh on March 19, 2009, 06:39:34 pm: I read somewhere that some Catholic/christian sites have been blacklisted.

Isn't this unconstitutional?
..."freedom of religion"

Doesn't this suppress freedom to religion?
Title: Re: Blacklisted!
Post by: ninwa on March 19, 2009, 06:45:08 pm: But don't we not have a bill of rights or anything like that?
So technically nothing is unconstitutional?
Or something? =_=
Title: Re: Blacklisted!
Post by: costargh on March 19, 2009, 06:47:48 pm: We don't have a bill of rights but we have 5 express rights covered in the constitution (and possibly a 6th implied right).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_constitutional_law#Protection_of_rights
Title: Re: Blacklisted!
Post by: costargh on March 19, 2009, 06:52:04 pm: Oh dw, seems as though the high court has already interpreted that right as not being broad as I'd thought.
Title: Re: Blacklisted!
Post by: AppleThief on March 19, 2009, 06:55:35 pm: Quote from: costargh on March 19, 2009, 06:39:34 pm
I read somewhere that some Catholic/christian sites have been blacklisted.
You read it "somewhere"..? Source would be good.

Anyone who wants to read the list: http://kensingtonvictoria.com/?p=1121

Anyway, according to ACMA, the list that was leaked was only derived from the actual list, so who really knows...
Title: Re: Blacklisted!
Post by: ninwa on March 19, 2009, 07:25:32 pm: I'm almost hoping it's really a fake, some of the websites on there are so ridiculous. Why on earth is www.startcorp.com.au blacklisted, for example?!
Title: Re: Blacklisted!
Post by: excal on March 19, 2009, 08:11:47 pm: http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/wikileaks.org
Title: Re: Blacklisted!
Post by: brendan on March 19, 2009, 09:57:38 pm: I have a few "Don't blame me, I voted Liberal" stickers
Title: Re: Blacklisted!
Post by: TrueLight on March 19, 2009, 11:34:43 pm: is liberals any better? i never watched them when they were in parliament...
Title: Re: Blacklisted!
Post by: mark_alec on March 19, 2009, 11:46:56 pm: Quote from: TrueLight on March 19, 2009, 11:34:43 pm
is liberals any better? i never watched them when they were in parliament...
Not really. Both parties are very similar in Australia.
Title: Re: Blacklisted!
Post by: Eriny on March 20, 2009, 12:09:18 pm: I suppose it depends on their attitudes towards the internet filter thing. If the liberals don't block it in the senate then they're no good.
Title: Re: Blacklisted!
Post by: /0 on March 20, 2009, 12:53:30 pm: This is the cancer that is killing /b/