Drew Wilson
March 18th, 2009, 09:36 PM
Australia blacklisted a webpage on Monday from the whistle-blowing site Wikileaks that contains an index of URLs censored by Dutch authorities, a move adding to the country's debate about whether the government should mandate internet filters.
The Australian Communications and Media Authority added two Wikileaks pages to its censorship list: one for the Dutch Danish government's secret index of banned child porn sites as well as Wikileaks' press release about how the index was used and why the site was publishing it.
ACMA's list is estimated to hold more than a thousand URLs currently and is distributed to Australian ISPs, which are required by law to make filters available to users.
Wikileaks, the net's foremost site for leaked documents, responded by announcing the ban, writing "The first rule of censorship is that you cannot talk about censorship."
More... (http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2009/03/australia-censo.html)
Well, Chinese censors were always- wait, Australia?
The Australian Communications and Media Authority added two Wikileaks pages to its censorship list: one for the Dutch Danish government's secret index of banned child porn sites as well as Wikileaks' press release about how the index was used and why the site was publishing it.
ACMA's list is estimated to hold more than a thousand URLs currently and is distributed to Australian ISPs, which are required by law to make filters available to users.
Wikileaks, the net's foremost site for leaked documents, responded by announcing the ban, writing "The first rule of censorship is that you cannot talk about censorship."
More... (http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2009/03/australia-censo.html)
Well, Chinese censors were always- wait, Australia?