[IRP] Outbreak of Net Censorship in Australia

[Phillip Roberts]

Dear all,

By now many of you will have heard that we have a major controversy
happening
in Australia in relation to Internet censorship.

I've been preoccupied with work matters for the last few months, but I've
just taken
an hour or so to surf around and find some links to update you about this.

Here's a short video featuring a representative from Electronic Frontiers
Australia
talking about Net censorship trial program of the Australian Government:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xThNk0Vd4ws&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eefa%2Eorg%2Eau%2Fcategory%2Fcensorship%2Fpage%2F2%2F&feature=player_embedded

One of the organisations active in campaigning against this program is
GetUp:

http://www.getup.org.au/campaign/SaveTheNet/442

The best running commentary is probably on the Electronic Frontiers
Australia site:

http://www.efa.org.au/

The most recent development is that the Swedish based site wikileaks is
going head to head with Senator Conroy after wikileaks published what they
claimed to be the secret blacklist of sites. Here's more on that:

http://www.techworld.com.au/article/296378/wikileaks_conroy_we_will_go_after

Then just yesterday one of the main ISPs announced that it's pulling out.

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2009/03/23/1237656833566.html

Please feel free to access to pass on this information. The more people
who know the better.

I suggest that for safety's sake you not try to access the blacklist itself.
There's a risk that this could be in breach of Australian law.   Just
telling
others about this issue will get the desired effect.


Best regards,

Phillip
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