[LINK] ACMA Internet Filter List Leaked

[Barrie Hall]

I think it might down due to load.

> The site is down or not routable from outside Australia.
>
> Happens a bit to wikileaks.  It offends a lot of people for a lot of
> different reasons.  There are a number of different DNS names like
> wikileaks.com to name just one.
>
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> On 2009/Mar/19, at 5:27 AM, Jan Whitaker wrote:
>
>> At 01:58 PM 19/03/2009, George Bray wrote:
>>> WikiLeaks (if you can get to it)
>>> <http://www.wikileaks.org>
>>
>> Nope. Doesn't connect. Someone's put up a block, it seems.
>>
>> This how daft the thing is and why a secret list is dangerous:
>>
>> Web blacklist outcry: dentist, tuckshop on official 'hate list'
>>
>> http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2009/03/19/1237054973414.html
>> Asher Moses
>> March 19, 2009 - 2:35PM
>>
>>
>> Latest related coverage
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>>    *
>> <http://www.theage.com.au/news/technology/leaked-australian-blacklist-reveals-banned-sites/2009/03/19/1237054961100.html
>> >Leaked
>> Australian blacklist reveals banned sites
>> [the Age article about the leak above]
>>
>> The Queensland dentist included on the Australian communications
>> regulator's blacklist of prohibited websites has demanded that the
>> list be cleaned up, as he is now being associated with child porn
>> peddlers and sexual violence sites.
>>
>> Whisleblower site Wikileaks
>> <http://www.smh.com.au/articles/
>> 2009/03/19/1237054961100.html>published
>> the top-secret ACMA list today.
>>
>> Websites contained on it will be blocked for all Australians once the
>> government implements its mandatory internet filtering scheme -
>> originally pitched as targeting only "illegal" content - later this
>> year.
>>
>> But, as experts have long warned the government, having a top-secret
>> blacklist of banned sites is dangerous because there is a real danger
>> that Australian businesses could be added to the list in error, with
>> little recourse.
>>
>> Inevitable leaks of the list, as happened today, mean those innocent
>> businesses' websites could be associated with child porn repositories.
>>
>> "Any person or corporation that would be identifiable on the list
>> would potentially be deemed by the general public ... either a child
>> molester or at least in the same category as child molesters," said
>> University of Sydney associate professor Bjorn Landfeldt.
>>
>> "In effect, this could be interpreted by some as a government
>> sanctioned hate list.
>>
>> "Even if the list is not leaked directly, it may be possible to
>> reverse engineer the list and find out its content."
>>
>> Alongside child porn, bestiality, rape and extreme violence sites,
>> the list also includes a slew of online poker sites, YouTube links,
>> regular gay and straight porn sites, Wikipedia entries, euthanasia
>> sites, websites of fringe religions such as satanic sites, fetish
>> sites, Christian sites, the website of a tour operator and even a
>> Queensland dentist.
>>
>> Other Australian sites on the list are canteens.com.au ("Tuckshop and
>> Canteen Management Consultants") and animal carers
>> MaroochyBoardingKennels.com.au.
>>
>> The dentist, Dr John Golbrani, was furious when contacted to inform
>> him that his site, dentaldistinction.com.au, appeared on the
>> blacklist.
>>
>> "A Russian company broke into our website a couple of years back and
>> they were putting pornographic listings on there ... [but] we changed
>> across to a different web provider and we haven't had that problem
>> since," Golbrani said in a phone interview.
>>
>> He said the fact that he hadn't been removed from the list was
>> "criminal" and he was scared potential customers may avoid him.
>>
>> "The government needs to get in and clean it up," said Golbrani.
>>
>> Daniel Purser, who runs a web hosting and web design company out of
>> NSW called Startcorp, was also shocked to learn that his site had
>> been blacklisted.
>>
>> He said there was "no chance" any of his customers were hosting child
>> porn or other questionable content.
>>
>> "We only host our own customers that we've done designs for and most
>> of them are referrals from our own customers or referrals from my
>> family," he said.
>>
>> "Our service provider in Australia wouldn't tolerate it either,
>> they've got a very definite anti-pornography rule.
>>
>> "Obviously somebody needs to have a look at the list and actually
>> make an assessment on whether it's a legitimate complaint or not
>> because obviously no investigation has been done at all."
>>
>> Colin Jacobs, spokesman for online users' lobby group Electronic
>> Frontiers Australia said: "The prospect of mandatory nation-wide
>> filtering of this secret list is pretty concerning from a democratic
>> point of view."
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
>> jwhit at janwhitaker.com
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>> business: http://www.janwhitaker.com
>>
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>> sing or write, for only in such response do we find truth.
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