Wikileaks reveals secret blacklist behind proposed Great Firewall of Australia…
Wikileaks has published the secret list of sites blocked by Australia’s state-sponsored parental filter — a list that the government plans to expand to the entire Australian Internet, making it the basis for a new Great Firewall of Australia. The lis…
[...] The dishonesty of “copyright police”; pigs indeed. Meanwjile, the Aussie government goes censorship crazy. Find the list of arbitrarily and capriciously banned sites here. [...]
[...] websites, soon to be marooned outside the Great Firewall of Australia, to find out if our blog here is on it. PDF. About 50% of it is probably various forms of pornography anyway, and you’d just want [...]
Awesome, just awesome. Thankyou for having the guts to host this.
uber censored March 20th, 2009
3:28 pm
The watchdog has warned that anyone who republishes the list or attempts to access child pornography sites on it could face up to 10 years in prison.
It has also warned that linking to sites on the list could incur fines of up to $11,000 a day.
ACMA is investigating the matter and may refer it to the Australian Federal Police.
John W March 21st, 2009
7:15 am
I’m in New Zealand, where fortunately the government (or the Pigs) have not (yet) gone down that road of censorship, involving blocking access to certain listed foreign websites. It would be against the NZ Bill Of Rights 1990. Australia and the UK do not have anything like our Bill Of Rights (or the Canadian Charter Of Rights & Freedoms, or the U$ Bill Of Rights), the only protections of basic civil liberties and human rights there being at common-law and in the old English Bill Of Rights 1689, which are now inadequate.
For Australians wanting to access those banned sites, you can do so though an “elite” of “high-anonymity” proxy-server. Lists of the IP addresses and port numbers of such free public proxy-servers by country, regularly updated, are at http://www.samair.ru/proxy . However, they seldom last for more than a few days or weeks, and not all of them allow file-transfers.
[...] war so groß das wikileaks im Moment offline ist. Eine Kopie der Liste von wikileaks ist hier, hier, oder über BitTorrent von [...]
anonymous March 22nd, 2009
9:37 pm
Why should there be a link to a youporn video and not the whole of youporn on it?
me March 27th, 2009
6:09 pm
why should one spread this damn list!? for the holy sake on information freedom? i doubt it… think about how many more views those sites will get now, as every idiot has access to the urls. well done
The problem with Senator Conroy’s attempt at censoring the web for us is that he obviously feels it is a potential vote winner to keep the religious lobby happy. The main pressure for this comes from Hillsong and other ultra right-wing religious organisations. One can only hope that once it is proven useless they’ll drop it and get on with the National Broadband Network, hopefully without screwing that up.
Wikileaks reveals secret blacklist behind proposed Great Firewall of Australia…
Wikileaks has published the secret list of sites blocked by Australia’s state-sponsored parental filter — a list that the government plans to expand to the entire Australian Internet, making it the basis for a new Great Firewall of Australia. The lis…
[...] The dishonesty of “copyright police”; pigs indeed. Meanwjile, the Aussie government goes censorship crazy. Find the list of arbitrarily and capriciously banned sites here. [...]
not real?
http://www.acma.gov.au/WEB/STANDARD/pc=PC_311669
[...] websites, soon to be marooned outside the Great Firewall of Australia, to find out if our blog here is on it. PDF. About 50% of it is probably various forms of pornography anyway, and you’d just want [...]
http://www.wikileaks.org is down worldwide!
Thanks for rehosting - everyone should download a copy of one of these files, just in case something happens to this post (you never know).
What a wonderful resource!
The AU government are a bunch of old women.
I noticed that blacklisted specific threads on forum sites but did not blacklist the parent site. Isn’t that sort of… Well, stupid?
Poor Australia.
[...] The List [...]
Awesome, just awesome. Thankyou for having the guts to host this.
The watchdog has warned that anyone who republishes the list or attempts to access child pornography sites on it could face up to 10 years in prison.
It has also warned that linking to sites on the list could incur fines of up to $11,000 a day.
ACMA is investigating the matter and may refer it to the Australian Federal Police.
I’m in New Zealand, where fortunately the government (or the Pigs) have not (yet) gone down that road of censorship, involving blocking access to certain listed foreign websites. It would be against the NZ Bill Of Rights 1990. Australia and the UK do not have anything like our Bill Of Rights (or the Canadian Charter Of Rights & Freedoms, or the U$ Bill Of Rights), the only protections of basic civil liberties and human rights there being at common-law and in the old English Bill Of Rights 1689, which are now inadequate.
For Australians wanting to access those banned sites, you can do so though an “elite” of “high-anonymity” proxy-server. Lists of the IP addresses and port numbers of such free public proxy-servers by country, regularly updated, are at http://www.samair.ru/proxy . However, they seldom last for more than a few days or weeks, and not all of them allow file-transfers.
[...] war so groß das wikileaks im Moment offline ist. Eine Kopie der Liste von wikileaks ist hier, hier, oder über BitTorrent von [...]
Why should there be a link to a youporn video and not the whole of youporn on it?
why should one spread this damn list!? for the holy sake on information freedom? i doubt it… think about how many more views those sites will get now, as every idiot has access to the urls. well done
The problem with Senator Conroy’s attempt at censoring the web for us is that he obviously feels it is a potential vote winner to keep the religious lobby happy. The main pressure for this comes from Hillsong and other ultra right-wing religious organisations. One can only hope that once it is proven useless they’ll drop it and get on with the National Broadband Network, hopefully without screwing that up.