Apparently the Australian government has been compiling a list of sites which are to be blacklisted from view down under due to objectionable content. It started out as a way to block child porn sites, but it has expanded to include anti-abortion websites and gay-themed websites.

http://www.dailykos.com/s...-Internet.

* the national gadfly's diary :: ::

Wikileaks recently published a complete list of the proposed blacklist sites currently under review in Australia, under the guise of protecting the people of Australia from child pornography. The Australian government has issued a statement calling the list a fake and threatening action against Wikileaks. Wikileaks is standing behind the list's authenticity and has issued a statement informing the Australian government of their full rights to publish the list as well as a promise to pursue legal action against anyone attempting to censor Wikileaks.

I'm worried that the Org may be blacklisted in Australia due to all of the sex threads in GD, and that ZombieKitten and Ocean may not be able to log onto this site.

She might start by changing her avvie

I'm sorry, but I smell a troll lurking. And his name starts with a 7

They have been trying to do this for a while now and every time they bring it up it just fails. Hell one ISP here voluntarily put the censors up just to prove that they will be bypassed no matter how hard the government tries to block content and it was proved that they cant block anything no matter how hard they try.

So all I can do is laugh when I see this stuff. If by chance they do somehow get this crap implemented I foresee Australia becoming the new communist China

they betta not ban the org!

728huey said:

Whatever happen to free speech in Australia?!?

728huey said:

I think this is your clue right here!

oh, and they already banned all new zealanders from using the internet in Australia, which is probably why chilli and ocean aren't posting any more

chilli is kiwi?

PANDURITO said:

I'm pretty sure

ZombieKitten said:

You're pretty, sure
Is chilli kiwi?

PANDURITO said:

(since Kylie isn't using it, she gave it to me)

I'm losing it

ZombieKitten said:

she in tasmania i sent her a gift there at least i think so
[Edited 3/22/09 18:29pm]

missmad said:

I thought she was from there

PANDURITO said:

she is a typical kiwi (like all my other kiwi friends ) moved to QLD initially (I think ) then to tassie

The org loves its Aussie community

ZombieKitten said:

No way!! What a bloody mess!

MarySharon said:

I was only joking! I'm sorry


lucky those 2 are allowed on facebook still

ZombieKitten said:

Sorry, I didn't know if I had to take this seriously or not, but it sounded real

I wish they'd come back on the org

MarySharon said:

I was hoping one of them would read it and throw a brick at me

ZombieKitten said:

Kylie would rather chairslap I guess

Matter of fact, now that the french government said they plan to promulgate torrents use prohibition law in june I thought anything was possible, like blacklisting the org in Oz

MarySharon said:

I wonder how they will do it

ZombieKitten said:

Me neither, they mainly talked about IP's location but didn't explain in details their way of doing it (local news dedicated the main part to this). They just said they would send a warning email first time a person get caught. Then if it happens again to the same person, they send a letter with acknowledgment of receipt, and in the end they just cut or cancel their internet susbcription.

MarySharon said:

so the onus will be on the ISPs to catch people

ZombieKitten said:

We can suppose anything on the subject

ZombieKitten said:

ah ok