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.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.Wikileaks has previously published the blacklists for Thailand, Denmark and Norway.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2009/03/19/1237054961100.html
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2009/03/19/1237054961100.htmlACMA blacklist leaked on the internet
A top-secret list of banned internet web pages that is being used as the basis for the federal Government’s internet filtering trials has been leaked on to the web.The secret blacklist, which is maintained by the Australian Communications and Media Authority, contains 2395 web pages including those which have been refused classification, X18+ and MA15+ content.
http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25210333-15306,00.htmlList leak casts doubt on net censorship plan
Doubt has been cast on the Federal Government’s proposed internet censorship regime after a blacklist of banned websites was leaked online. The list included such innocent sites as a dentist and tuckshop consultant.The whistleblower site Wikileaks yesterday published the top-secret Australian Communications and Media Authority list.
http://www.theage.com.au/national/list-leak-casts-doubt-on-net-censorship-plan-20090319-93fi.html
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