http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/australia-issues-wikileaks-linking-fine-warning-585894 (http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/australia-issues-wikileaks-linking-fine-warning-585894)
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Australian Government adds Wikileaks to banned website list
Linking to flagged sites will cost youQuoteThe Australian communications regulator has issued a stark warning that websites who link out to 'banned' hyperlinks are liable to fines of up to Aus $11,000 a day.
The news comes after web forum Whirlpool was threatened with the fine for posting a hyperlink to a blacklisted anti-abortion website.
Wikileaks blacklisted
One of the newest additions to Australia's 'blacklisted hyperlinks' list is Wikileaks; the website that publishes anonymous submissions of sensitive info on everything from corporations, religion and governments.
The blacklisting of certain pages of the site has come about after Wikileaks posted a list of websites at the tail end of 2008 that comprised the 'secret internet censorship' list for Denmark. On this list were over 3,500 sites that were censored or banned in the country.
Disturbing picture
While Australia's list of blacklisted sites currently stands at 1,370, the Sydney Morning Herald is reporting that that list could increase to around 10,000 sites – most of which are of illegal pornographic content, but could also includes sites that house incendiary political discussions.
"The Government is embarking on a deeply unpopular and troubling experiment to fine-tune its ability to censor the internet," said communications spokesman Senator Scott Ludlam of Australian opposition party Greens.
"If you consider this kind of net censorship in the context of Australia's anti-terror laws, it paints a disturbing picture indeed."
On its website, Wikileaks, which leaked the news that the government had banned it for leaking information, simply said: "The first rule of censorship is that you cannot talk about censorship."
Currently, it is not illegal for internet users in Australia to click on the sites found on the web blacklist. The people targeted by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) are webmasters linking out to the sites that the government have flagged up as inappropriate.
This could all change, however, if a mandatory internet filtering censorship scheme is implemented – something that is being debated at the moment.
Via Sydney Morning Herald
By Marc Chacksfield
Can anyone else see http://wikileaks.org ? I'm in Australia and I can't.
Either the site is down because of too much traffic, or I'm blocked by the Oz JOG.
@Cailen.
In South Africa the site is working
Thanks to those that checked. I'm able to see the site now. Didn't even know about it until the local media started harping on about it. A little research about Wikileaks has revealed exactly what it is. It's a whistleblower site alright, but be warned; it's also a whistleblower against "racism." Wikileaks recently made available lists of B&H forum members and BNP members and supporters that were gained by red computer hackers. Highly illegal almost everywhere in the world except for Germany and Israel - but don't expect an investigation or charges to be forthcoming. Australia, the US, Britain and most of Europe signed a 1960's UN treaty to illiminate "racism." Those nations that signed the treaty are obliged to provide assistance to anti-racist groups and temporary discriminatory laws to be enacted against pro-majority groups, along with temporary affirmative action type laws to advance minorities to equal status with the majority. ~ As long as our countries are part of the UN, those laws will never be lifted.
@Cailen.
A Blacklist for Websites Backfires in AustraliaBy Belinda Luscombe (Time Magazine) | March 22, 2009
It must have seemed like a good idea at the time. If you want to reduce citizens' exposure to dangerous and illegal activities online, why not gather up all the URLs for sites that promote such acts — child pornography, extreme violence, weapon-making and so on — and have Internet Service Providers (ISPs) simply block them? Wouldn't that make the internet safer for families and children?
Actually no, as the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) is finding out the hard way. The ACMA, Canberra's equivalent of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, put together such a list and sent it to more than a dozen companies. It was part of a trial program to develop software that would allow Australian ISPs to block the sites. But to ACMA's evident surprise, at least one person who received the list handed it over to Wikileaks, an online clearinghouse for anonymous submissions of sensitive material. The ACMA "blacklist", as it became known, was promptly posted online, becoming a handy compendium of internet depravity in one convenient package — courtesy of the Australian government. After it was posted, a surge in traffic caused Wikileaks to crash temporarily.
"It's the most ill-conceived pile of stupidity by the biggest bunch of cretins that I've ever seen in my life, " says Ross Wheeler, CEO of Albury.net.au, a regional ISP, referring to the web-filtering plan. "Every ISP that I know of has either publicly or privately said it's technically and practically impossible." The leak was further black icing on the cake. Among its more than 1,000 entries were URLs for child porn, rape and bestiality sites as well as online gambling (some forms of which are illegal in Australia) and gay and straight pornography. But many sites appeared to have been blacklisted almost at random. A dentist from Queensland, whose website had once been hacked into by a Russian purveyor of pornography, was on the list. So was pet care facility MaroochyBoardingKennels.com.au and canteens.com.au, a site belonging to a school cafeterias consultant. "The only thing I can think of [that got me on the list] is that I have e-mailed schools telling them about my book and CD resource How to Have a Healthy and Profitable Theme Day," owner Jocelyn Ashcroft told the Sydney Morning Herald.
And while the list in many cases appeared arbitrary at best, some selections appeared politically motivated at worst. Sites advocating legal euthanasia, Satanism and even Christianity were blacklisted. Initially, the minister for communications, Stephen Conroy, denied that the list on Wikileaks and the ACMA blacklist are the same, a denial that rang a little hollow when one of its partners, the Internet Industry Association (IIA), publicly condemned the release and posting of the list. "No reasonable person could countenance the publication of links which promote access to child abuse images, irrespective of their motivation, which in this case appears to be political," said IIA chief executive Peter Coroneos.
More recently Wikileaks updated the list and the Minister acknowledged the similarities, but stood firm on proceeding with testing the internet filtering software. "Does the [leaked blacklist] mean we are going to stop blocking access to the sites? No. People can continue to put up the lists if they are proud to do that," he told a press conference in Sydney. "It is completely untrue that the leaked blacklist contains political content. This is a list which contains sites that promote incest, rape, child pornography and child abuse."
As a result of the scandals, several of Australia's biggest ISPs have now pulled out of the filtering software trials and urged the government to drop the plan. "It became increasingly clear that the trial was not simply about restricting child pornography or other such illegal material, but a much wider range of issues including what the Government simply describes as 'unwanted material' without an explanation of what that includes," said Michael Malone, Managing Director of iiNet, an Australian ISP. He added that his company only agreed to participate in the trial to demonstrate that the policy was "fundamentally flawed, a waste of taxpayers' money and would not work." Critics of mandatory Internet filtering point out that in some countries, including China and Thailand, it's not only used to block morally objectionable content but those that are critical of the government. More to the point, many internet providers say blacklists don't work anyway: most illegal activity online happens via peer-to-peer networking, which Web filters can't block. "It's almost trivial to get around the filters," says Wheeler. "But I can't tell you how, because the government has now made that illegal."
First seen in Time Magazine. Thanks to Belinda Luscombe and Time Magazine for covering this issue. Copyright remains with the aforementioned.
The outlook for online freedom in Australia continues to be less than stellar as the Rudd government's plan for mandatory Internet censorship gains momentum, with computer games now in their sights. In the meantime, EFA received a link deletion notice – under threat of an $11,000 per day fine – for a discussion on the politically sensitive nature of blacklisted content.
Source: http://www.efa.org.au (http://www.efa.org.au)
I can access that site ;D
Australia intends to introduce filters which will ban access to websites containing criminal content [the question now is - which sites will be seen as containing "criminal content" by the NWO ?]. The banned sites will be selected by an independent classification body guided by complaints from the public, said Communications Minister Stephen Conroy. A seven month trial in conjunction with internet service providers found the technology behind the filter to be 100% effective.
However, there has been opposition from some internet users. Twitter users have been voicing their disapproval by adding the search tag "nocleanfeed" to their comments about the plans. "Successful technology isn't necessarily successful policy," said Colin Jacobs, a spokesperson for Electronic Frontiers Australia, a non-profit organisation that campaigns for online freedom.
"We're yet to hear a sensible explanation of what this policy is for, who it will help, and why it is worth spending so much taxpayers' money on". Mr Conroy said the filters included optional extras such as a ban on gambling sites which ISPs could choose to implement in exchange for a grant.
"Through a combination of additional resources for education and awareness, mandatory internet filtering of RC (refused classification)-rated content, and optional ISP-level filtering, we have a package that balances safety for families and the benefits of the digital revolution," he said. The filter laws will be introduced in parliament in August 2010 and will take a year to implement.
"Historical attempts to put filters in place have been effective up to a point," Dr Windsor Holden, principal analyst at Juniper Research, told BBC News. The "noble aims" of the filter could be lost in its implementation, he warned. "Clearly there is a need to protect younger and more vulnerable users of the net, but one concern is that it won't just be illegal websites that will be blocked," he added. "You have to take extreme caution in how these things are rolled out and the uses to which they're put."
Source : http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8413377.stm (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8413377.stm)
This could be a bad thing for us, or it could be good.. We are harmless wen we are on the net, but when we start meeting in person because there is no other way that is when we put things into action. So we might be better off. Instead of being all talk we would be more actions.
Quote from: Br.Axelsson on Tue 22 Dec 2009This could be a bad thing for us, or it could be good.. We are harmless wen we are on the net, but when we start meeting in person because there is no other way that is when we put things into action. So we might be better off. Instead of being all talk we would be more actions.
No, that's when people start adopting Creativity as an excuse to plan and commit illegal acts. Just as those that types that currently adorn their homes in NS paraphernalia, build pipe bombs to blow up the darkies, they will become secretive, paranoiac, refuse to associate with other people - nevermind other Creators - and they will eventually ensure that Creativity reaches the status of and remains a neo-Nazi cult of wackos and fetishists.
We have successfully extricated ourselves from the wackos and fetishists. Our next step is religious legitimisation. And for that, we need the internet.
BTW, The JOG claim that the trial was a success, but even Australian media are giving examples of why it was a failure. If they UK is lauding it as a triumphant success, it is because the "free" world is watching Australia and also plan to implement politically correct filters to keep the kiddies safe.
@Cailen.
PROPOSED laws that would allow the web and telecommunications data of all Australians to be stored for two years have been dubbed ''characteristic of a police state''.
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/internet-data-tracking-proposal-seen-as-a-police-state-20120828-24yvn.html (http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/internet-data-tracking-proposal-seen-as-a-police-state-20120828-24yvn.html)
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