Australia wants to fine for banned hyperlinks.
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http://www.smh.com.au/news/home/technology/banned-...
I know the regular "will someone think of the children" line will come out, and everyone will say we need this sort of government level censorship to stop child pornography. However, it will not stop child pornography. I posted a little excerpt from an article the other week about the methods used by pedophiles to spread their abhorrent materials. This censorship will do nothing to curb that.
Do you trust a government to tell you what you can and can't be reading. How long until we have such a system in the UK with the same sort of penalties ?
smh said:
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.
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Online civil liberties campaigners have seized on the move by ACMA as evidence of how casually the regulator adds to its list of blacklisted sites. It also confirmed fears that the scope of the Government's censorship plan could easily be expanded to encompass sites that are not illegal.
"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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The Government has said it was considering expanding the blacklist to 10,000 sites and beyond.
That's rather scary. The Internet is a powerful tool for freedom of speech and expression of ideas. I don't fancy the prospect of a government imposing fines and penalties on people who want to make certain information available to others based purely on a governments decision on whether you should be viewing it or not.Wikileaks was added to the blacklist for publishing a leaked document containing Denmark's list of banned websites.
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Online civil liberties campaigners have seized on the move by ACMA as evidence of how casually the regulator adds to its list of blacklisted sites. It also confirmed fears that the scope of the Government's censorship plan could easily be expanded to encompass sites that are not illegal.
"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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The Government has said it was considering expanding the blacklist to 10,000 sites and beyond.
I know the regular "will someone think of the children" line will come out, and everyone will say we need this sort of government level censorship to stop child pornography. However, it will not stop child pornography. I posted a little excerpt from an article the other week about the methods used by pedophiles to spread their abhorrent materials. This censorship will do nothing to curb that.
Do you trust a government to tell you what you can and can't be reading. How long until we have such a system in the UK with the same sort of penalties ?
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