Web Censorship in Australia: Banned Hyperlink Fine $11,000 per Day!
Like Bob Dylan said, It's not dark yet, but it's getting there.
From the Sydney Morning Hearald:
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 move by the Australian Communications and Media Authority comes after it threatened the host of online broadband discussion forum Whirlpool last week with a $11,000-a-day fine over a link published in its forum to another page blacklisted by ACMA - an anti-abortion website.
ACMA's blacklist does not have a significant impact on web browsing by Australians today but sites contained on it will be blocked for everyone if the Federal Government implements its mandatory internet filtering censorship scheme.
But even without the mandatory censorship scheme, as is evident in the Whirlpool case, ACMA can force sites hosted in Australia to remove "prohibited" pages and even links to prohibited pages.
My question on live national TV to the Minister.
My question is at 9:20.
This was the first time the Minister Stephen Conroy had faced the music publicly. He is now known as the "Minister for Silly Lists"
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/qanda/txt/s2521164.htm
Jim Stewart
http://jimboot.com
Ughh...
America is probably not too far behind in this kind of legislation...
Yes this thing (web) that we
Yes this thing (web) that we are dependent on can be taken away at the blink of an eye....and probably will be sooner than we like
that's HORRIBLE.
it has started in canada as well. there are links i can't open.
What passes for the
What passes for the Australian government is obviously a joke unto itself. First they have forever been socialistic and never got off the Queen's apron strings. Then they ban people's ability to defend themselves by stealing their guns (all but the criminals' guns of course). Now they are telling those they serve what they can and cannot read or say. Maybe America's next great export will be Awakening and r3VOLution? I sell quite a few books to Australia's free thinkers. I know now what to include in the packages. wink wink.