New ACMA blacklist leaked: 1170 URLs dated March 18
WikiLeaks has released a copy of what is alleged to be the current ACMA blacklist. This list is dated March 18 and includes 1170 URLs, including the now high-profile AbortionTV page and the Wikileaks page containing the Danish blacklist. URLs belonging to Betfair, The Peaceful Pill Handbook, Redtube, AbbyWinters, IShotMyself, TheHun and xTube are present...
Queensland Election: LNP won’t support R18+ game classification
I contacted Queensland’s three major political players this month to find out their position on introducing an R18+ classification for computer games. The results are not surprising. Lawrence Springborg is firm: LNP ‘have have no intention of changing the current laws’. The Borg says ‘Games and films are a matter for the Film and Classification...
Conroy says it’s not the ACMA blacklist
Senator Stephen Conroy has denied the blacklist published on Wikileaks is the ACMA blacklist, but admits URLs on it are also on his list. Which, he obviously doesn’t say. ZDNet reports Conroy as saying: “I am aware of reports that a list of URLs has been placed on a website. This is not the ACMA blacklist,”...
Amateur adult site xTube.com makes Aussie ban list
A website which allows adults to upload amateur video footage and pictures of themselves naked, having sex or participating in other legal adult activities is just one of the many websites included on a list alleged to be the ACMA blacklist. The same list the Australian media regulator has described as containing the ‘worst of...
Poker, betting websites hit by Australian blacklist
Websites which allow users to play poker online and provide playing tips are included on a list alleged to be the ACMA blacklist. The blacklist includes the URLs of at least five poker playing websites currently in operation. Also included is the international betting service Betfair.com. Betfair CEO Andrew Twaits is outraged. He had this...
Legal adult websites blacklisted: AbbyWinters and The Hun banned
Update June 16, 2009: Looking for news about the Abby Winters – G Media police raid? Click here. One of Australia’s largest owned and operated adult websites, AbbyWinters.com, is included on a list alleged to be the ACMA blacklist of prohibited websites. Also banned is the TheHun.com, one of the web’s longest running and most...
ACMA Blacklist leaked, contains legal websites
What is claimed to be a copy of the Australian Communications and Media Authority’s (ACMA) secret blacklist of prohibited websites has been leaked on the whistle-blower website WikiLeaks. I can confirm the list includes a range of legal websites, including that of a political group supporting euthanasia and a popular Australian owned adult website to...
URL of banned WikiLeaks page published on DBCDE blog
A web page on Wikileaks that was recently blacklisted by ACMA because it contains a copy of Denmark’s Internet blacklist is also published on the defunct DBCDE blog. (Update 4:45PM: DBCDE has restricted access to the page with a log in form. Link to cached version added). That’s fine with me as it’s a good...
ACMA blacklists WikiLeaks page
It has been revealed that ACMA has blacklisted a page on the whistle-blower website WikiLeaks.org that contains a leaked copy of the Danish blacklist of banned websites. Like the anti-abortion page recently blacklisted by ACMA, this page was also submitted to the media authority for investigation by a Whirlpool user. The complainant, ‘Tardis42’, believes there...
Liberal MP wants drinking board game banned
Liberal MP Steve Irons wants a board game that he says encourages alcohol abuse banned from sale in Australia. The game in question, Pass-out, has players travel around the game board taking drinks and reciting tongue twisters. It’s been around in board game form since at least 1962. But Irons says ‘In a society now...
Public forum on Internet regulation in Brisbane, March 24: Senator Ludlam speaking
NewMatilda is holding a series of public forums about the internet regulation debate in Australia, with the first to be held in Brisbane on March 24, 2009. The forums which are also set for Adelaide, Sydney and Melbourne in coming weeks explore the ethical, social and political questions raised by government regulation of the Internet....
Filtering wrap up: Background Briefing’s filtering report, Stephen Fry and Scott Ludlam
ACMA’s decision to issue Whirlpool’s host Bulletproof Networks with a link take-down notice last week was big news and rightfully so. If the Rudd government is already attempting to censor free speech, it doesn’t take much to imagine the severe consequences of having a mandatory filter in place. However, it wasn’t the only net filtering...
