Online Poker Website Blacklist Leaked in AustraliaLeaked Censorship Document Includes 'Slew Of Online Poker Sites' but Veracity Questioned |
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A leaked blacklist of banned websites drawn up by the Australian Communications and Media Authority contains a “slew of online poker websites” according to report in today’s Sydney Morning Herald. However subsequent reports, including one from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation claim the list is not the official government list.
The list, seen by the newspaper, could form the basis for the government’s mandatory internet filtering 
The list contains 2,395 universal resource locators (URLs or web addresses). The newspaper reports that Colin Jacobs, spokesman for Electronic Frontiers Australia, as saying, “The list itself should concern every Australian - although plenty of the material is unsavoury or even illegal, the presence of sites like YouTube, MySpace, gambling or even Christian sites on the list raises a lot of questions.
“There is even a harmless tour operator on there, but there is no mechanism for a site operator to know they got on or request to be removed. The prospect of mandatory nation-wide filtering of this secret list is pretty concerning from a democratic point of view.”
Later, government communications minister told ABC that, "I am aware of reports that a list of URLs has been placed on a website. This is not the ACMA blacklist," saying that the ACMA list had 1,061URLs, a significantly smaller number than on the leaked list.
Last week the ACMA threatened to fine the host of an online discussion forum AUS$11,000 per day over a link published in its forum to another page blacklisted by ACMA - an anti-abortion website.
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