Wir hatten das Thema ja schon mal. Hier ein paar neue traurige Entwicklungen. Sie uebertreffen selbst meine pessimistischen Befuerchtungen:
"While Wikileaks is used to exposing secret government censorship in developing countries, we now find Australia acting like a democratic backwater. History shows that secret censorship systems, whatever their original intent, are invariably corrupted into anti-democratic behavior," Wikileaks said.
Of the 2395 web pages on the leaked list, approximately [COLOR=red]half[/COLOR] relate to child porn - one of the key targets the Government wishes to eliminate through the introduction of its mandatory internet filter. But many more web pages simply relate to online poker sites, YouTube links, pornography sites, and Wikipedia entries.
Quelle:
[URL=http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,25197,…3-15306,00.html]http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,25197,…3-15306,00.html[/URL]
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 [COLOR=red]anti-abortion web page blacklisted by the regulator[/COLOR]. "The (ACMA) notice stated that if we don't comply we could face fines of up to $11,000 a day.
On January 5, an internet user in Melbourne, known online as Foad, lodged a complaint with ACMA about "offensive 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. Around two weeks after the complainant contacted the regulator, 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''.
Quelle:
[URL=http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,25197,…8-15306,00.html]http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,25197,…8-15306,00.html[/URL]
The Queensland dentist included on the Australian communications regulator's blacklist of prohibited websites has demanded that the list be cleaned up, as he is now being associated with child porn peddlers and sexual violence sites.
Other Australian sites on the list are canteens.com.au ("Tuckshop and Canteen Management Consultants") and animal carers MaroochyBoardingKennels.com.au.
The dentist, Dr John Golbrani, was furious when contacted to inform him that his site, dentaldistinction.com.au, appeared on the blacklist. "A Russian company broke into our website a couple of years back and they were putting pornographic listings on there ... [but] we changed across to a different web provider and we haven't had that problem since," Golbrani said in a phone interview.
Jocelyn Ashcroft, who runs a school canteen consultancy in Queensland, also said she had no idea why her site had made it on to the blacklist.
Daniel Purser, who runs a web hosting and web design company out of NSW called Startcorp, was also shocked to learn that his site had been blacklisted. He said there was "no chance" any of his customers were hosting child porn or other questionable content.
Quelle:
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2009/…7054973414.html
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2009/…414.html?page=2
But about [COLOR=red]half[/COLOR] of the sites on the list are not related to child porn and include a slew of online poker sites, YouTube links, regular gay and straight porn sites, Wikipedia entries, euthanasia sites, websites of fringe religions such as satanic sites, fetish sites, Christian sites, the website of a tour operator and even a Queensland dentist.
"It seems to me as if just about anything can potentially get on the list," Landfelt said. He said secret censorship systems were "invariably corrupted", pointing to the Thailand censorship list, which was originally billed as a mechanism to prevent child pornography but contained more than 1200 sites classified as criticising the royal family.
"In January the Thai system was used to censor Australia reportage about the imprisoned Australian writer Harry Nicolaides," he said.
"The Australian democracy must not be permitted to sleep with this loaded gun. This week saw Australia joining China and the United Arab Emirates as the only countries censoring Wikileaks."
"The list itself should concern every Australian - although plenty of the material is unsavoury or even illegal, the presence of sites like YouTube, MySpace, gambling or even Christian sites on the list raises a lot of questions," he said.
"There is even a harmless tour operator on there, but [COLOR=red]there is no mechanism for a site operator to know they got on or request to be removed[/COLOR]. The prospect of mandatory nation-wide filtering of this secret list is pretty concerning from a democratic point of view."
Quelle:
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2009/03/19/1237054961100.html
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2009/…100.html?page=2
Vielleicht auch noch ganz interessant:
http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/296378…e_will_go_after
Joerg
PS: Falls jemand antworten moechte: Bitte sachlich bleiben! Und verschont uns mit "D vs AUS" Diskussionen. Danke.
