Essential linkage: The ACMA's censorship plans just keep getting sillier and sillier.
Our pal Asher Moses over at SMH Online has posted an ace little article updating the ongoing saga of the Australian Communications and Media Authority and its proposed net censorship scheme.
The latest chapter is the adding of numerous pages from Wikileaks to ACMA's black list:
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 Denmark's list of banned websites.
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 Denmark's list of banned websites.
And that's on top of news that the ACMA recently threatened broadband news site Whirlpool with an $11,000 a day fine for hosting a black-listed link. To add insult to injury, that list is secret, by the way... uh huh. Makes perfect sense.
It's a great article, and very worth reading if you're at all interested in the ongoing debate.
Issue: 107 | December, 2009