[LINK] Censorship of wikileaks?

[Kim Holburn]

Does this mean that the link archive and possibly other academic  
websites could be in danger of falling fowl of this law?

From:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikileaks

> Future potential Australian censorship
>
> On March the 16th, the Australian Communications and Media Authority  
> added Wikileaks to their blacklist, and threatened anyone linking to  
> the site with $AU11,000 a day fines. The site will be blocked for  
> all Australians if the mandatory internet filtering censorship  
> scheme is implemented as planned.

Footnotes:
http://www.theage.com.au/news/home/technology/banned-hyperlinks-could-cost-you-11000-a-day/2009/03/17/1237054787635.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1 
&page=-1/
http://tinyurl.com/cbppv2

> Banned hyperlinks could cost you $11,000 a day
>
> Asher Moses
> March 17, 2009 - 11:48AM
>
> The Australian communications regulator says it will fine people who  
> hyperlink to sites on its blacklist, which has been further expanded  
> to include several pages on the anonymous whistleblower site  
> Wikileaks.
>
> Wikileaks was added to the blacklist for publishing a leaked  
> document containing Denmark's list of banned websites.
>
> The move by the Australian Communications and Media Authority comes  
> after it threatened the host of online broadband discussion forum  
> Whirlpool last week with a $11,000-a-day fine over a link published  
> in its forum to another page blacklisted by ACMA - an anti-abortion  
> website.
>
> ACMA's blacklist does not have a significant impact on web browsing  
> by Australians today but sites contained on it will be blocked for  
> everyone if the Federal Government implements its mandatory internet  
> filtering censorship scheme.


http://www.wikileaks.org/wiki/Australia_secretly_censors_Wikileaks_press_release_and_Danish_Internet_censorship_list,_16_Mar_2009/
http://tinyurl.com/cqevnw
> Australia secretly censors Wikileaks press release and Danish  
> Internet censorship list, 16 Mar 2009


...

> The first rule of censorship is that you cannot talk about censorship.

....

> An Australian anti-censorship activist submitted the page to the  
> Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA), requesting  
> that they censor it, under their internal guidelines. The activist  
> wished to expose the "slippery scope" of the proposed Mandatory  
> Internet Censorship scheme.
>
> The press release and the list itself have now been placed into the  
> secret Australian government blacklist of "Prohibited Online Content".
>
> The content on the blacklist is illegal to publish or link to in  
> Australia, with fines of upto $11,000 a day for contraventions.



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