[LINK] The rallies???

Danny Yee danny at anatomy.usyd.edu.au
Mon Dec 15 23:09:20 AEDT 2008


You don't need "deep pockets" to get web pages put on ACMA's blacklist
-- submitting a complaint is free!

If blacklisted content overseas is actually blocked instead of being
pretty much ignored, I can see a lot more vigilantes reporting content,
and the blacklist growing a lot faster than it has to date.

Danny.

David Boxall wrote:
> Finally:
> <http://www.itnews.com.au/News/91177,in-pictures-hundreds-protest-proposed-internet-filters.aspx>.
> One interesting comment:
> >  "If it is simply a matter of calling ACMA [Australian Communications
> >  and Media Authority] and getting things blocked, then people with
> >  sufficiently deep pockets will call ACMA and block things they
> >  disagree with."
> 
> Hadn't thought of that.  In a way, it's even nastier than the lunatic 
> fringe satisfying their obsessions.




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