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Wikileaks Pages Added To Australian Internet Blacklist
3/17/2009

Cpudney writes "The Sydney Morning Herald reports that the Australian Communications and Media dominion (ACMA) has added several Wikileaks pages to its arguable blacklist. The blacklisted pages contain 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, Whirlpool, discovered last week when they published a forum post that linked to an anti-abortion web-site just now added to ACMA's blacklist. The blacklist is secret, immune to FOI requests and forms the basis of the Australian government's act mandatory ISP-level infobahn censorship legislation. Wikileaks' reaction 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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