Activists Use Wikipedia To Test Aussie Net Censors 330
pnorth writes "Editors at Wikipedia have removed a link to a blacklisted web site that sat uncontested for over 24 hours in the main body of the Australian regulator's own Wikipedia entry. The link, which directs readers to a site containing graphic imagery of aborted foetuses, was inserted into ACMA's Wikipedia entry by a campaigner against Internet filtering to determine whether Australia's communications regulator had a double-standard when it came to censoring web content. The very same link motivated the regulator to serve Aussie broadband forum Whirlpool's hosting company with a 'link deletion notice' and the threat of an $11,000 fine. Last night, the link became the subject of 'warring' between several Wikipedia administrators in the lead up to its removal, with administrators saying they didn't want to be used to prove a point."
The entire list is now on-line at wikileaks (Score:5, Informative)
Error in story (Score:4, Informative)
The story pretty much describes the opposite of what happened - the page was protected because a minority of users (many of them IP users without a login) kept on removing the link.
Update: full block list available on wikileaks (Score:5, Informative)
For those who are interested, the Sydney Morning herald reports [smh.com.au] that the full internet filter list has been leaked. It's pretty interesting - there's a lot of not-actually-illegal content on it (including a dentist's site?).
It's interesting to note that this is the minimum that will be blocked in Australia; the gov may (and will) add to this. This sounds like much more of a test of the censors than what TFA writes about...
Links are there and locked, now (Score:5, Informative)
You might hope that Slashdot editors would CLICK ON THE FUCKING LINKS THEY POST and see the story is wrong at the time of being published. The current version of the page does indeed include the links, and it's been locked. Of course, the part of it being the subject of an edit war was true, and the linked Discussion page is a warzone.
A *greased* Yoda? (Score:2, Informative)
Ah fuck. I was supposed to grease up the Yoda doll? That explains the horrible pain and encrusted blood on the backside of my wizard's robe.
*** GOVERMENT IS ASSISTING DIST. OF CHILD PORN *** (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Error in story (Score:4, Informative)
Check the history. The link was removed when the page was protected, and then re-added by someone else seven hours later for reason: "Restoring state to prevent a witch hunt or anything. Could people please assume good faith in future?".
Definitely sounds like a bit of an internal edit war, etc.
mirrors (Score:4, Informative)
ppl have been having issues, so here's some mirrors:
Re:There are some things we shouldn't see (Score:4, Informative)
Your speech is certainly free - very free. Hint: "Fetii" isn't a word. I think you mean foetuses (or fetuses, if you insist on using the bastardised version of the language that is American English).
A history lesson (Score:5, Informative)
Re:mirrors (Score:4, Informative)
Iran, China, Russia are all fine. You can access wikileaks from there. We Australians can't though.
Re:mirrors (Score:3, Informative)
woops, false alarm, tin foil hat removed...
Re:The entire list is now on-line at wikileaks (Score:1, Informative)
globaldial, au
Re:The entire list is now on-line at wikileaks (Score:2, Informative)
http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/wikileaks.org [downforeve...justme.com]
Time to Karma-Whore (Score:4, Informative)
WP:POINT (Score:4, Informative)
Re:mirrors (Score:5, Informative)
From the list:
www.goat.cx, 2girls1cup.com
So Australia's legislating for taste, then?
(lots of IP addresses including some with reputable hosting providers like Verio)
So hard luck if you got them after the original user whose content was blocked, then?
partypoker.com, www.pacificpoker.com, pokerroom.com, coralpoker.com
OK, the obnoxious advertising is more than a little annoying, but blacklisting them? Isn't that a little extreme?
hogtied.com
Well-known US BDSM site, complying with all relevant US laws. Almost certainly not illegal in Australia, although I'm not an expert.
encyclopediadramatica.com
OK, I know they're blacklisted from being linked to on Wikipedia (with good reason), but blocking the entire site for an entire country -- a little extreme for being obnoxious, isn't it?
biz
Huh?? Not sure how their interpretation of this list works, but with a badly written filter this would probably block all .biz domains. With a well-written one it would achieve precisely nothing.
myusenet.net
A usenet service provider.
churchofeuthanasia.org
A site that seems to be intended to make a political statement about population control, although doing it in a rather crude fashion.
satanservice.org
A site of information about self-identified satanic religious groups.
libchrist.com
From the site: "Promoting Positive Intimacy and Sexuality Including Responsible Nonmonogamy or Polyamory as a legitimate CHOICE for Christians and others."
18yopics.com
So, they're not even pretending to have underage models, yet they get blocked anyway? Presumably on the off-chance that some of their models are younger than they claim?
www.torrentspy.com/directory/1503/adult/videos+%2d+hardcore
A list of hardcore movies, 99+% of which are totally legal (although, in most cases, copyright violations).
http://xfreehosting.com/
A hosting service provider's web site.
pornspaces.com
Another one.
http://pornstarpasswords.com/
A site with a collection of pictures of well-known US adult stars and a 18 USC 2257 compliance statement.
www.bowwowlyrics.cn
A site that, when it existed, probably contained lyrics and images relating to a vaguely-popular 80s New Wave pop group [wikipedia.org], and in a mirror of the Wikipedia/Scorpions debacle was probably blocked for hosting a copy of this album cover [wikipedia.org], which shows the naked back of the band's 15-year-old lead singer.
torrentfive.com
A generic bittorrent links site.
legal-models.info
A collection of non-pornographic images of children.
pussy.org
An average, run-of-the-mill hardcore porn site with US legal compliance statement.
sensualgetaway.com
A swingers' classified ads site.
piratetourism.com
"a full service travel agency, operating with the full license of the Ministry of Tourism and a member of the Association of Travel Agencies of Turkiye"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Cyde/Weird_pictures, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ewlyahoocom/WikiPr0n
Two collections of somewhat-risque pictures that appear in wikipedia articles. None of these images appear to constitute child pornography.
Blacklist from wikileaks (Score:1, Informative)
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And yet again, but this time another long sentence that makes no sense whatsoever or maybe it will this time, we could try to find out or something or we can just keep typing. Maybe it is long enough yet but probably not
#Aug 6 2008
tgpme.com
newthumbs.net
bbs12.mail15.su
cybermovs.narod.ru
groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.apps.seamonkey/browse_thread/thread/e8a2eb7b73335439
hrdpdfl8.paginas.sapo.pt/2/main.html
imgsrc.ru/main/search_re.php?str=&tag=&butt=ya&where=ya&nopass=on&cat=24&page=5
lolitacj.freepimphost.com
mclt-sites.net/latvian/main/?sid=1189
myusenet.net/files/0/alt.binaries.pictures.wals/0/index96.htm
ourworldkids.info
rapidlibrary.com/index.php?q=girl+12+year+old+fuck+with+boy+13+year+old+in
tinygev.com
trueincest.com
www.crazydumper.com/go-young_russian_guy_drug_her_and_then_fuck_her-639842.html
fulltiltpoker.com
www.kackarhatila.com/custom/config/new/index.html
nasty-virgins.org
pretty-pretty.info
realcruelfamily.com
www.sexologic.com/hosted/media/...now-watch-while-we-fuck-your-girlfriend!,111.php
vi5search.com
www.wetdump.com/hosted/1036/slipped-some-pillz-in-her-drink-and-fucked-her-while-unconscious.html
top.angels-list.com/index.html?97
forced-news.com
ganja.vipzax.com
shave.vipzax.com
#July 30 2008
forced-news.com
sweets.maximimage.com/?ft=brightgirls.net
littlevirginstgp.com
cutiesveta.com
youngwetmodels.com
preteenmasha.com
forbi-dreams2.info
#July 28 2008
www.zeytincioglu.com.tr/dosya/new/index.html
pussy-dump.com
www.realcruelfamily.com/main.html
mclt-sites.net
arinadream.info
destroyeddaughters.com
mclt-sites.net
blacklo.vipzax.com
tinyteencj.sexpornhost.com
joyisle.com
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:The_making_of_an_adult_film_by_David_Shankbone.jpg
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Cyde/Weird_pictures
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ewlyahoocom/WikiPr0n
cma-stars.com
pzw.hut2.ru/imgboard/7.htm
lolitacj.freepimphost.com
#July 17 2008
general.free-usenet.net/2278/teen-models/alt.binaries.models.petite.html
lolita.bilovers.info
armorbot.com/bbs/viewtopic.php?id=83
armorbot.com/bbs/viewtopic.php?id=86
www.allofincest.com/?id=topotop
m13.mail.qq.com/cgi-bin/groupattachment?att=01494642000000160001021617D720
www.evilshare.com/423d50aa-84f8-102b-a8ce-0007e90cfb90
www.submityourflicks.com/videos/913/teen-girlfriend.html
teenlib.com
www.zeytincioglu.com.tr
mylazysundays.com
lolsonly.org
xlola.biz
rapesection.com
images13.51.com/106/a/f2/4f/yangzongqi2/1199699016_46859300.jpg
images13.51.com/124/a/f2/4f/yangzongqi2/1199699024_87991300.jpg
images13.51.com/128/c/f2/4f/yangzongqi2/1199699029_67105600.jpg
images13.51.com/130/b/f2/4f/yangzongqi2/1199699012_78670100.jpg
images13.51.com/18/a/b2/e8/aiyouyouasd/1193901534_0.85306200.jpg
images13.51.com/28/a/b2/e8/aiyouyouasd/1193901578_0.94736800.jpg
images13.51.com/29/a/b2/e8/aiyouyouasd/1193901535_0.00767600.jpg
images13.51.com/47/a/b2/e8/aiyouyouasd/1193901582_0.71140700.jpg
images13.51.com/48/a/f2
Re:mirrors (Score:2, Informative)
Well-known US BDSM site, complying with all relevant US laws. Almost certainly not illegal in Australia, although I'm not an expert.
As far as I'm aware, depictions of actual sex acts are illegal here, so softcore only. Some exception for the ACT or something (where all the federal politicians are). You won't find hardcore in the newsagents, you can in the adult stores but they get raided from time to time.
Re:A history lesson (Score:3, Informative)
Re:mirrors (Score:3, Informative)