Leaner blacklist in net censorship

Leaner blacklist in net censorship

About 200 banned websites were dropped from the Federal Government’s internet sex and drugs blacklist in the last three months -” but we’re still not allowed to know what they were.

Around 1100 websites rated MA15+ and up remain in censorship limbo while the Government conducts trials of the ISP-level filter.

The Australian Communications and Media Authority told Senate Estimates hearings that the majority of the undisclosed banned websites depict sex, drug addiction, crime, cruelty or violence and therefore offend the standards of morality.

Others are X18+, which is about depictions of actual consensual sexual activity between adults, which we also add to our blacklist when we find those types of materials online. The other matters are very small in number in terms of R18+ and MA15+, ACMA representative Nerida O’Loughlin said.

ACMA received 1122 complaints in the 2007-2008 financial year, but only 452 of those complaints led to prohibited material rated M15+ or higher.

No date has been set for the mandatory filter to be implemented.

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One response to “Leaner blacklist in net censorship”

  1. “The majority of the undisclosed banned websites depict sex, drug addiction, crime, cruelty or violence and therefore offend the standards of morality”

    “Offend the Standards of Morality”

    If you were a person who adhered to the “Standard of Morality” why would you be looking at a website which depicted, sex, drug addiction, crime, cruelty or violence?

    Apparently people have asked the government to disclose the websites – “but we’re still not allowed to know what they were” – but no one has asked the government to disclose the “Standard of Morality” the breach which has apparently provoked the government to take remedial action.

    I am a suspicious person – I suspect that the government’s decision to ban certain websites might be based on information that those websites attract a lot of patronage from Australia and Australians pay for services offered by those websites – which means a lot of Australian money is being remitted overseas to the website operators.

    I suspect that the Australian government is just trying to plug a leak of money which is flowing overseas to those websites. I suspect that the government is using as an excuse to stop that flow of money overseas;

    that the activity of accessing certain websites is breaching an undisclosed “Standard of Morality” and to prevent people from breaching that “Standard of Morality” the government has decided to act to ban certain websites and by so doing those websites will be inaccessible to Australians.

    Banning the websites will not only prevent the “Standard of Morality” being breached it will also stop Australians sending a lot of money overseas.