Sunday, March 15, 2009



Political censorship of the web in Australia

People must not see an anti-abortion page:
"In an unprecedented move, Australia's communications regulator has threatened to fine a company up to $11,000 a day for indirectly leaking part of its top-secret list of banned internet web pages. The action by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has wide ramifications for media companies, online publishers, web hosting suppliers and any organisation that publishes feedback from readers or customers on their website.

On March 10, ACMA issued Sydney web hosting company Bulletproof Networks with an "interim link-deletion notice" for allowing its customer, the Whirlpool internet community website, to post the link to an anti-abortion web page blacklisted by the regulator. Whirlpool is a popular website with around 276,000 members who regularly provide comments on the internet and broadband in Australia.

The interim notice, obtained by The Australian, stated that on February 19, ACMA received information that a Whirlpool forums page "may contain links to other websites that may contain 'prohibited content' or 'potentially prohibited content'". According to the notice, ACMA determined that end-users in Australia could access the content on the blacklisted web page.

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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Are pro-abortion web sites also banned? (LOL) Apparently, this is the type of government the Aussie's want, since they tolerate it. Enjoy!