[LINK] Another leaked blacklist, another two Crikey stories

[Stilgherrian]

Since my Crikey story on Friday about the leaked blacklist -- which  
Senator Stephen Conroy denied was the actual ACMA blacklist of banned  
Internet content -- there have been further leaks. And two more Crikey  
stories.

Monday's piece was "Yet another ACMA internet blacklist springs a  
leak". I explain how the leak unfolded, and how Wikileaks published  
instructions for extracting the cunningly-named file  
"Websites_ACMA.txt" from a certain brand of Internet filtering  
software -- one of the Internet Industry Association’s Family Friendly  
Filters and one of those provided free to (a few) Australian families  
by the Howard government’s now-defunct NetAlert scheme.

I also run through Wikileak’s’s legal threats, and Senator Conroy’s  
latest spin -- that the government never intended to block all of the  
ACMA blacklist, just the “Refused Classification” items. It’s a shame  
that doesn’t match a list of seven public statements about what’s  
planned to be blocked compiled by Irene Graham.

http://www.crikey.com.au/Politics/20090323-Escalation-of-the-blacklist-wars.html
or
http://is.gd/oufd

Tuesday’s was "It certainly looks like the ACMA blacklist, eh Senator  
Conroy?" There’s further evidence that the most recent leaked list is,  
almost certainly, the actual ACMA blacklist. I also look at Senator  
Nick Minchin’s daft attempt to portray Conroy as Big Brother over a  
perfectly ordinary-looking government tender for media monitoring  
service.

http://www.crikey.com.au/Media-Arts-and-Sports/20090324-It-certainly-looks-like-the-ACMA-blacklist-eh-Senator-Conroy.html
or
http://is.gd/oDwS

Both are outside the Crikey paywall, i.e. free to read. Enjoy.

Stil


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