[LINK] Dentist's website on Aussie blacklist (was Re: ACMA Internet Filter List Leaked

[Leah Manta]

At 14:14 19/03/2009, Kim Holburn wrote:
>Some commentary here:
>
>http://torrentfreak.com/torrent-sites-end-up-on-aussie-blacklist-090319/
>
> >
> > Speaking of the leak, Australia's Broadband and Communications
> > Minister Stephen Conroy says the list is not the official ACMA
> > blacklist. He says that while the published list has around 2,400
> > blocked URLs, the official ACMA blacklist contains roughly 1,050.
> >
> > "There are some common URLs to those on the ACMA blacklist," he
> > said. "However, ACMA advises that there are URLs on the published
> > list that have never been the subject of a complaint or ACMA
> > investigation, and have never been included on the ACMA blacklist,"
> > he said.

So someone sat down and compared 1350 other URLS against the 1050 
'official' URLs to ensure they it wasn't the same list.

However, for the third time (are any of the Reporters listening and 
reading!) the list was derived from one of the "Approved" Filtering 
Software filter databases, so it's fair to assume that there will be 
URLs in that list that come from other sources who have also 
"Approved" the Filtering Software through government style approvals 
and hence are fed with URLs by those other sources.

What we now await is for the OWNER of the Database, them who created 
it, to step up and say "yes it is our software."

Other points in the article are highly valid.

Child Abuse and Child Porn sites, fine, nail them, why there isn't a 
GLOBAL set of legal treaties with EVERY GOVERNMENT of EVERY COUNTRY 
on this issue so that the word "Jurisdiction" can never be spoken is 
just completely beyond my understanding.  We seem to have treaties 
for just about everything else to control our lives, except the 
things people most detest.