[LINK] Censorship of wikileaks?

Rick Welykochy rick at praxis.com.au
Wed Mar 18 09:31:27 AEDT 2009


Kim Holburn wrote:

> 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.

The blacklist of sites is secret.

I cannot possibly know not to link to unknown sites.

Yes, minister.

 >> The content on the blacklist is illegal to publish or link to in
 >> Australia, with fines of upto $11,000 a day for contraventions.

Let's try that one out in the courts.


cheers
rickw


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