Aussie internet censorship
Feb. 24th, 2009 01:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dryfterOh goody.
Apparently an Australian internet user (called Foad in the media, but one wonders if it should be FOAD..) submitted an anti-abortion website to the ACMA, on the basis that it was prohibited and should be blocked, and they accepted his request and added it to the blocklist without much diligence. (Is abortion a prohibited topic now? WTF?)
Erm. That doesn't bode well.
Now watch as every lobby group starts submitting the websites of their opponent groups to get them blocked too.
This is ridiculous.
:/
Original article
On January 5, an internet user in Melbourne, known online as Foad, lodged a complaint with ACMA about content on an anti-abortion web page, not the entire website. The man did not want his real name published for fear of reprisals. He said his motive was to test the system and show that web pages not showing material connected with sexual abuse of children could end up on the blacklist.
About two weeks later, he received a reply from ACMA informing him it was ’satisfied that the internet content is hosted outside Australia, and the content is prohibited or potential prohibited content’.
Apparently an Australian internet user (called Foad in the media, but one wonders if it should be FOAD..) submitted an anti-abortion website to the ACMA, on the basis that it was prohibited and should be blocked, and they accepted his request and added it to the blocklist without much diligence. (Is abortion a prohibited topic now? WTF?)
Erm. That doesn't bode well.
Now watch as every lobby group starts submitting the websites of their opponent groups to get them blocked too.
This is ridiculous.
:/
Original article
On January 5, an internet user in Melbourne, known online as Foad, lodged a complaint with ACMA about content on an anti-abortion web page, not the entire website. The man did not want his real name published for fear of reprisals. He said his motive was to test the system and show that web pages not showing material connected with sexual abuse of children could end up on the blacklist.
About two weeks later, he received a reply from ACMA informing him it was ’satisfied that the internet content is hosted outside Australia, and the content is prohibited or potential prohibited content’.
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Date: 2009-02-24 04:30 am (UTC)*headesk*
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Date: 2009-02-24 04:30 am (UTC)There's that at least
Date: 2009-02-24 06:03 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-02-24 01:32 pm (UTC)It'd probably take a bit of thought to get the right balance of absurdity, and there is the problem of these websites then being blocked...
Maybe every website that mentions Vegemite or something like that... ;P