[LINK] 250,000, not 1200 websites blocked by ASIC request

[Jan Whitaker]

It was worse than first thought ----

How ASIC's attempt to block one website took down 250,000

Ben Grubb
Published: June 5, 2013 - 11:39AM

Australia's corporate watchdog has admitted to inadvertently blocking 
access to about 250,000 innocuous websites in addition to the 1200 it 
had already accidentally censored.

ASIC made the concession in a statement at a senate estimates hearing 
on Tuesday night, after it caused controversy by interpreting a 
15-year-old law in the Telecommunications Act as giving it the 
ability to block websites.

The largest number of sites censored when attempting to block one 
particular site ASIC believed was defrauding Australians was 250,000. 
Of these, ASIC said about 1000, or 0.4 per cent, were active sites. 
It said the 249,000 other sites hosted "no substantive content" or 
offered their domain name up for sale, rather than hosting a 
fully-fledged active site.
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More at - 
http://www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/how-asics-attempt-to-block-one-website-took-down-250000-20130605-2np6v.html


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