{"id":1769,"date":"2009-03-19T17:05:19","date_gmt":"2009-03-19T07:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=1769"},"modified":"2009-03-19T23:23:15","modified_gmt":"2009-03-19T13:23:15","slug":"token-post-on-fuck-internet-censorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=1769","title":{"rendered":"Token post on (fuck) Internet censorship"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul><strong>Update<\/strong> : Wikileaks is down &#8212; the Top Secret ACMA Banlist is <a href=\"http:\/\/secretacmabanlist.blogspot.com\/2009\/03\/secret-acma-banlist-leaked.html\">here<\/a>. Oddly, dates are given alongside URLs, and range from June 1, 2007 to August 1, 2008. When Google censors the blog, it will presumably pop up elsewhere. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acma.gov.au\/WEB\/STANDARD\/pc=PC_311669\">&#8216;ACMA list of prohibited and potentially prohibited overseas hosted content&#8217;<\/a>, ACMA, March 19, 2009: &#8220;The Australian Communications and Media Authority is aware that a list purporting to be the \u2018ACMA blacklist\u2019 has been posted on an overseas website. ACMA does not consider that the release and promotion of URLs relating to illegal and highly offensive material is responsible&#8230;&#8221;<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/articles\/2009\/03\/19\/1237054973414.html\">Dentist, tuckshop cited on web blacklist<\/a><br \/>\nAsher Moses<br \/>\n<em>The Age<\/em><br \/>\nMarch 19, 2009<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/articles\/2009\/03\/19\/1237054961100.html\">Leaked Australian blacklist reveals banned sites<\/a><br \/>\nAsher Moses<br \/>\n<em>Sydney Morning Herald<\/em><br \/>\nMarch 19, 2009<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/\">machine-gun keyboard<\/a> has moar, as can <a href=\"http:\/\/danny.oz.au\/freedom\/\">Danny Yee<\/a>. &#8220;Broadband and Communications Minister Stephen Conroy says a list claiming to be the communication regulator&#8217;s blacklist for a proposed internet filtering system is not the real blacklist. He has condemned Wikileaks, the website that published the list, as &#8220;grossly irresponsible&#8221;.&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/stories\/2009\/03\/19\/2520929.htm\">Leaked blacklist irresponsible, inaccurate: Conroy<\/a>, Nic MacBean, ABC, March 19, 2009).<\/p>\n<p>Oh yeah:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/news\/technology\/banned-hyperlinks-could-cost-you-11000-a-day\/2009\/03\/17\/1237054787635.html?\">Banned hyperlinks could cost you $11,000 a day<\/a><br \/>\nAsher Moses<br \/>\n<em>Sydney Morning Herald<\/em><br \/>\nMarch 17, 2009<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Australian communications regulator says it will fine people who hyperlink to sites on its blacklist, which has been further expanded to include several pages on the anonymous whistleblower site Wikileaks. Wikileaks was added to the blacklist for publishing a leaked document containing <a href=\"http:\/\/wikileaks.org\/wiki\/Denmark:_3863_sites_on_censorship_list,_Feb_2008\">Denmark&#8217;s list of banned websites<\/a>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Wikileaks is inaccessible for this user. <strong>YOU!<\/strong> can test its connect-ability-ness <a href=\"http:\/\/www.herdict.org\/web\/explore\/id\/3473\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Guy Rundle whinges from London:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crikey.com.au\/Politics\/20090318-Rundle-Conroys-attack-on-free-speech-gears-up.html\">Rundle: there is no bigger issue than net censorship<\/a><br \/>\nCrikey<br \/>\nMarch 18, 2009<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With the news that communications watchdog ACMA has put some pages of Wikileaks on its list of banned links &#8212; and threatened linkers with five-figure daily fines &#8212; the fight against the compulsory internet filtering enters a new and vital stage.<\/p>\n<p>Wikileaks &#8212; the document repository, no association with Wikipedia &#8212; has published the list of sites banned by the Danish government, and these pages have been put on the blacklist, presumably as part of a worldwide compact, formal or otherwise, between national web censorship authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the ACMA decision doesn&#8217;t affect many people at the moment, only sites hosted from Australia. But should mandatory filtering be introduced, the pages would be blocked for everyone. As would the pages telling you which pages had been blocked. And the pages telling you the pages that tell you the &#8230; and so on, a repressive tower&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/nocleanfeed.com\/\">No Clean Feed<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>What is the &#8216;Clean Feed&#8217;?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Australian Federal Government is pushing forward with a plan to force Internet Service Providers [ISPs] to censor the Internet for all Australians. This plan will waste tens of millions of taxpayer dollars and slow down Internet access.<\/p>\n<p>Despite being almost universally condemned by the public, ISPs, State Governments, Media and censorship experts, Communications Minister Stephen Conroy is determined to force this filter into your home.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.efa.org.au\/\">Electronic Frontiers Australia<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Electronic Frontiers Australia Inc. (EFA) is a non-profit national organisation representing Internet users concerned with on-line freedoms and rights. EFA was established in January 1994 and incorporated under the <em>Associations Incorporation Act (S.A.)<\/em> in May 1994.<\/p>\n<p>EFA is independent of government and commerce and is funded by membership subscriptions and donations from individuals and organisations with an altruistic interest in promoting online civil liberties&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.somebodythinkofthechildren.com\">Somebody Think Of The Children!<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Iron&#8217; Mike Meloni Thinks Of The Children. He is also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.netalarmed.com\/\">NetAlarmed<\/a>. You should join him.<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update : Wikileaks is down &#8212; the Top Secret ACMA Banlist is here. Oddly, dates are given alongside URLs, and range from June 1, 2007 to August 1, 2008. 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