Australia Blocks Wikileaks (Threat Level)

[Drew Wilson]

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."

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Well, Chinese censors were always- wait, Australia?

[1cooldude]

A form of democratic communism..or is that a paradox??

[Aaron_Walkhouse]

I looked at the list and it was heavily padded with cheapo
spam sites, most of which had moved on long ago.

No wonder they don't want people to know what they're doing.
They're freaking amateurs too lazy to clean out stale entries
and too stupid to find real threats in the first place.