The Australian National Classification Board’s website was hacked into just before Senator Stephen Conroy went onto television to defended the government’s internet filtering scheme on 29 March.
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Whistleblower site Wikileaks, winner of last year’s Economist/Index on Censorship New Media award, seems to have disappeared.
The site hit the news this week when it published a secret list of sites blocked by the Danish government. In response, Australia blocked Wikileaks.
Inevitably, Wikileaks then published the Australians’ list of banned sites. And now, no one seems to be able to access Wikileaks.
Global censorship? Or just too much traffic?
Update: it’s back, seemingly intact.
Australia has blacklisted a webpage from the whistle-blowing site Wikileaks containing an index of URLs censored by Danish authorities.
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‘An appeal judge in Australia has ruled that an animation depicting well-known cartoon characters engaging in sexual acts is child pornography.
The Internet cartoon featured characters from the Simpsons TV series.’
The rest is on the BBC here