[ga] Wikileaks Pages Added To Australian Internet Blacklist

["Jeffrey A. Williams" <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

All,

  Well it seems that censorhsip in Australia has expanded, much
like ICANN, the GNSO and especially the ALAC.

See:
"The Sydney Morning Herald reports that the Australian
Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2009/03/17/1237054787635.html?page=fullpage
added several Wikileaks pages to its controversial blacklist. The
blacklisted pages contain
http://www.wikileaks.org/wiki/Denmark:_3863_sites_on_censorship_list%2C_Feb_2008
Denmark's list of banned websites. Simply linking to addresses in
ACMA's blacklist attracts an $11,000 per-day fine as the hosts of the
popular Australian broadband forum,  http://www.whirlpool.net.au/
Whirlpool, discovered last week when they published a forum post that
linked to an anti-abortion web-site recently added to ACMA's blacklist.
The blacklist is secret, immune to FOI requests and forms the basis of 
the Australian government's proposed
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/12/048203&tid=95 mandatory
ISP-level Internet censorship legislation.
http://www.wikileaks.org/wiki/Australia_secretly_censors_Wikileaks_press_release_and_Danish_Internet_censorship_list,_16_Mar_2009
Wikileaks' response to notification of the blacklisting states: 'The
first rule of censorship is that you cannot talk about censorship.'" 
So Australians aren't allowed to see what it is that the Danes aren't 
allowed to see?

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