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...without an explanation of what that includes," said Michael Malone, managing director of iiNet, an Australian ISP. He added that his company agreed to participate in the trial only to demonstrate that the policy was "fundamentally flawed, a waste of taxpayers' money and would not work." Critics of mandatory Internet filtering point out that in some countries, including China and Thailand, it's used to block not only morally objectionable content but also those that are critical of the government. More to the point, many Internet providers say blacklists don't work anyway: most illegal activity online happens via peer...
...ISPs to block the sites. But to ACMA's evident surprise, at least one person who received the list handed it over to Wikileaks, an online clearinghouse for anonymous submissions of sensitive material. The ACMA "blacklist," as it became known, was promptly posted online, becoming a handy compendium of Internet depravity in one convenient package - courtesy of the Australian government. After the list was posted, a surge in traffic caused Wikileaks to crash temporarily. (See the 10 most interesting finds on Google Earth...
...selections appeared politically motivated at worst. Sites advocating legal euthanasia, Satanism and even Christianity were blacklisted. Initially, the Minister for Communications, Stephen Conroy, denied that the list on Wikileaks and the ACMA blacklist are the same, a denial that rang a little hollow when one of its partners, the Internet Industry Association (IIA), publicly condemned the release and posting of the list. "No reasonable person could countenance the publication of links which promote access to child-abuse images, irrespective of their motivation, which in this case appears to be political," said IIA chief executive Peter Coroneos. (See the 25 best...
...More recently, Wikileaks updated the list, and the Minister acknowledged the similarities but stood firm on proceeding with testing the Internet-filtering software. "Does the [leaked list] mean we are going to stop blocking access to the sites? No. People can continue to put up the lists if they are proud to do that," he told a press conference in Sydney. "It is completely untrue that the leaked blacklist contains political content. This is a list which contains sites that promote incest, rape, child pornography and child abuse...
...Martin Nisenholtz has run the electronic and digital operations of The New York Times since 1995. He probably saw problems that the newspaper industry faced when they were still far off. Fourteen years ago, he was dealing with the internet in a period when consumer access to broadband did not exist. Whatever Nisenholtz shared with the people who run The New York Times will probably never see the light of day. It is very probable that if he warned about the possible disruption that the print business might face that the warning was ignored. (Read: "How to Save Your Newspaper...