In Australia, banned links could cost $11,000 a day
Submitted by: KnightMare @ 09:54 AM | Tuesday, March 17, 2009 | (url: http://www.smh.co...)
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.
"The first rule of censorship is that you cannot talk about censorship," Wikileaks said on its website in response to the ACMA ban.
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Originally posted by DataAnother brilliant government project...
When did state-sponsored censorship become so trendy?
Another government-run program that would work more efficiently in the private sector
Originally posted by TeratosI suppose they are just used to this sort of thing.
It's probably standard procedure in a penal colony.
It is ignorance like this that created this crap in the first place.
I am Australian, and I can tell you now, with the amount of heat this is creating, I doubt it will get very far.
Our government is kinda different than most, we have a Prime Minister in each state, which decides shit for the state they are Prime Minister of, there is no ONE leader here. So hopefully one of them will have enough brains to know that if they pull this shit then there is a good chance next election they are gone.
If iinet pulled out, that right there is a huge red flag something is wrong.
BTW our government is full of a bunch of Retards. Don't hate the people because of the Government that runs a country is fucked up. You should feel sorry for us, because if this does go through, we are the ones that are going to have to deal with it. Not the Government or You!
Welcome to Australia!