Wikileaks Pages Added To Australian Internet Blacklist 437
cpudney writes "The Sydney Morning Herald reports that the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has added several Wikileaks pages to its controversial 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 recently added to ACMA's blacklist. The blacklist is secret, immune to FOI requests and forms the basis of the Australian government's proposed mandatory ISP-level Internet censorship legislation. 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?
Oh great, there goes slashdot (Score:5, Funny)
Any Australians fined yet for coming here?
Re:Happiness is Mandatory! (Score:5, Funny)
What is your security clearance, citizen?
Re:No Internet For You (Score:4, Funny)
but but but.. urrgh... fair enough.
Re:That's Kafkaesque (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Happiness is Mandatory! (Score:5, Funny)
I loved that game.
Re:Happiness is Mandatory! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:And it sucks more for Australians (Score:5, Funny)
At least in Denmark, you can drive a little ways and get your Internet uncensored.
For those unlucky souls in Australia who can't access their favorite aberrent websites don't really have any good recourse.
Wifi outside the US embasy?
Re:That's Kafkaesque (Score:5, Funny)
OT, but I once had a friend in the Marine Corps who had his clearance suspended due to an investigation into his supposed leaking of classified information (for which he was eventually cleared). The investigation contained Secret information, so they couldn't show him the charges that were pressed against him. We had some good laughs about Kafka, especially once it was all over.
Re:Happiness is Mandatory! (Score:5, Funny)
Nope, they're immediately detained on some manner of prison island, no questions asked.
Yeah, but it's also filled with lots of women with Australian accents. Please excuse me while I go find some felony to commit...
Re:Good luck with that... (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, that's a great idea. All you have to do to get a copy of the blacklist is check every URL on the entire internet twice. I'll get my iPhone started on that!
Re:Happiness is Mandatory! (Score:3, Funny)
Dear god someone link them to 4chan. Or GNAA. Or Kids in the Sandbox. Or 2 girls 1 cup. Or Efuckt. Or Goatse.
Re:Oh great, there goes slashdot (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Happiness is Mandatory! (Score:5, Funny)
Isn't that what we brits used australia for in the first place?
And you used America to get rid of your puritans ;) Seems pretty ironic that your convicted criminals were more loyal to the Empire than your religious zealots.
Re:That's Kafkaesque (Score:4, Funny)
This is turning into one of those plans [girlgeniusonline.com], isn't it?
Re:Happiness is Mandatory! (Score:5, Funny)
The part I like to point out, in impolite company, is how the Puritans were so insufferable that the DUTCH actually threw them out as well.
I blame The Gay Alien Flying Pigs Coalition! (Score:3, Funny)
That was probably the most paranoid posting I've ever read and I read a lot of Slashdot!
Seriously, did you forget to take your lithium this morning?
Re:Oh great, there goes slashdot (Score:2, Funny)
Doesn't Australia have a constitutional document guaranteeing freedom of speech?
No.
That's what happens when you let convicts & jailers found a country. /ducks
Old joke: a man gets off the plane and walks up to the Australian customs desk.
Name? John Smith
Where are you from? New York
Purpose of your trip? Vacation
Do you have a criminal record? No. You don't still need one to get in, do you?
Newspeak! (Score:3, Funny)
Has someone on the Aussie's Government been playing Paranoia recently?
What is your security clearance, citizen?
Citizen, plus good you unpraise crimethinker. Plus ungood you post in oldspeak. You go plus speedwise ACMA center for transport to joycamp.
Re:Oh great, there goes slashdot (Score:3, Funny)
I think the salient (how do you spell that?) point is "you saw". Healthy paranioa says that there are plenty to people that dissapear even in the United States of Australia.
As a roo and emu passport holder, currently based O/S, I'll happily mirror a list or seed a torrent on my PC of banned sites. The Australian Govt can fornicate off on this lump of fertilizer. Bittorrent ... is there anything you can't do?
Re:Happiness is Mandatory! (Score:3, Funny)
This is why they took all the guns away!
Re:Happiness is Mandatory! (Score:5, Funny)
The Puritans were so insufferable that they couldn't even stand each other, which is how Connecticut got founded (by one of the same guys the Dutch threw out...)
Re:That's Kafkaesque (Score:3, Funny)
Hopefully it's actually Heller (Catch-22). Because if it's Kafka, we're in for some REALLY big trouble once they get past "The Trial" and into "Metamorphosis"
Re:I'm sorry, I must be new here... (Score:4, Funny)
Tragedy today as former President Gerald Ford was eaten by wolves. He was delicious.
Re:Happiness is Mandatory! (Score:3, Funny)
The part I like to point out, in impolite company, is how the Puritans were so insufferable that the DUTCH actually threw them out as well.
Were I the Dutch, I would've too... Nothing harshes a good bud buzz like the smell of burning witch...
yo dawg (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Happiness is Mandatory! (Score:5, Funny)
They could save a few steps and just ban Kevin Bacon.