Leaked Australian blacklist reveals banned sites - Technology - smh.com.au

Censorship update: "The Australian communications regulator's top-secret blacklist of banned websites has been leaked on to the web and paints a harrowing picture of Australia's forthcoming internet censorship regime."

"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."

China and the UAR! Excellent bedfellows for the Aussies! Even North Korea is not on the list!

Needless to say, the first thing Wikileaks did after Australia censored them was to find and publish the country's entire "secret" list of banned websites. "Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks, dug up the blacklist after ACMA added several Wikileaks pages to the list following the site's publication of the Danish blacklist. 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."

"About half of the sites on the (Australian) 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."

To be fair, that is one VERY naughty dentist. He's always talking about filling those major cavities, and I won't even tell you how many times he uses the word "oral."