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STORY IS FAKE.

Aussie here, I have access to wikileaks.org right now from my Sydney-based ISP. There is no internet censorship in Australia as the idea is politically dead for now.

Yes, it wikileaks was added to a blacklist, one that is used by government employees at work. Basically no one uses that list.

Submitter 'mcantelon' needs some banhammer for fake stories.


The story is correct, the headline is misleading.

The article says it's on the ACMA blacklist, and if you link to a site on the blacklist from an Australian website then you are eligible to be fined. Whether anyone has since been fined for leaking to Wikileaks, I don't know.

If/when our abomination of an internet filter idea comes in, then it will become blocked by the filter. I think 2013 is the soonest anyone thinks that will happen.


(article seems to have been shown incorrect/outdated as of today: http://www.zdnet.com.au/wikileaks-removed-from-acma-blacklis... )


Ditto, I am on Telstra's 3G in rural NSW; if I am being censored at all, it's by bandwidth costs.


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