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Eriny

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Blacklisted!
« on: March 19, 2009, 03:00:50 pm »
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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 (?).
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Re: Blacklisted!
« Reply #1 on: March 19, 2009, 03:09:10 pm »
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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?!
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Re: Blacklisted!
« Reply #2 on: March 19, 2009, 04:14:23 pm »
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This is great news, I am doing my English issues oral on Australian "porn" filters, great for my argument :)
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Re: Blacklisted!
« Reply #3 on: March 19, 2009, 04:45:51 pm »
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the rudd government is a disgrace, crossing fingers that this does not pass, a complete mess.
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« Reply #4 on: March 19, 2009, 05:08:05 pm »
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« Reply #5 on: March 19, 2009, 05:19:59 pm »
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Re: Blacklisted!
« Reply #6 on: March 19, 2009, 05:22:54 pm »
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doesn't matter, the whole idea of regulating the internet is absurd
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Re: Blacklisted!
« Reply #7 on: March 19, 2009, 05:43:58 pm »
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Indeed. I now regret ever voting Labor and I think a LOT of people do. Idiot government >_>
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Re: Blacklisted!
« Reply #8 on: March 19, 2009, 06:05:20 pm »
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Um... can someone tell me why wikileaks is inaccessible?

Please don't tell me that it's been blocked...
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« Reply #9 on: March 19, 2009, 06:08:25 pm »
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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.
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Re: Blacklisted!
« Reply #10 on: March 19, 2009, 06:36:43 pm »
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I can't even go on wikileaks at all
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Re: Blacklisted!
« Reply #11 on: March 19, 2009, 06:39:34 pm »
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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?
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Re: Blacklisted!
« Reply #12 on: March 19, 2009, 06:45:08 pm »
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But don't we not have a bill of rights or anything like that?
So technically nothing is unconstitutional?
Or something? =_=
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Re: Blacklisted!
« Reply #13 on: March 19, 2009, 06:47:48 pm »
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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
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« Reply #14 on: March 19, 2009, 06:52:04 pm »
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Oh dw, seems as though the high court has already interpreted that right as not being broad as I'd thought.
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