I took a look at the list of websites that ACMA and Senator Conroy are allegedly banning during their tests of his internet filtering software – and he’s right to ban some of them!
Imagine what horror could await the eyes and minds of our innocent young if they were to access images like THESE:
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 From a dental website. Obviously the man is smiling because… |
 This woman, who is a patient at the same dental clinic, obviously has a towel to her face because… |
 Obviously this photo of a little girl brushing her teeth is highly… |
 No wonder this Australian dentist is smiling; after all, all of his staff are also highly paid secret members of… |
 I don’t know what the owners of this dog and cat boarding kennel in the northern part of Australia were thinking, but obviously something very animal is at the heart of it all |
 This canteen lady surely knows how to use a spoon and fork – she allegedly offers her ‘canteen management’ services all over one particular Australian state, having several qualifications and taken various volunteer roles on the ????? Association of School Tuckshops. A likely story! |
 This European restaurant clearly serves up more than just foreign food! “Restaurace se nachází v chebské m?stské ?ásti Háje, 1km od hrani?ního p?echodu Svatý K?íž. V naší restauraci vám nabízíme široký sortiment pokrm? z ?eské a minutkové kuchyn?.” Well, that’s what THEY say…! |
And we all know that the mozilla application ‘seamonkey’ is actually a front for a gun-smuggling regime working out of a local convent… 
Here’s the sort of page you might want to look for at that organisation that posts about leaks on their wiki:
My Melbournian mate Jim Stewart of Stewart Media posted a video about the whole schmozzle… “Australia Blacklists Free Speech”
You NEED to watch Jim’s video!
Jim also points to http://www.siteblocker.org and a place to find out what you can expect once a Government filter goes live.
I found the alleged list on a wiki that deals with leaked information – the sort of information that Governments sometimes prefer you not to know. If you search Google for an organisation (they usually have a domain name ending in .org) and something like, oh… say, wiki, or leaks, or some combination like that, you will probably find it.
Mind you, the site might be down because the server has crashed under the weight of people accessing it…
I found a surprisingly large number of the ‘naughty’ sites had actually disappeared, their domain names now the property of hosting companies who used them to run harmless link pages and Google ads. But the sites still remain in the ‘blocked’ list – it would appear that little attention is paid to making sure the list is current.
You can also find a great background to the whole mind-numbingly dumb internet filter concept at Wikipedia – visit this page before ACMA ban it!
I love this snippet from the Wikipedia page:
The IWF blacklist will form part of the mandatory blacklist used in Australia, but it has caused disruption in the UK. In December 2008, hybrid filtering technology implemented by UK providers[60] caused disruption of Wikipedia operations in the UK when a Wikipedia page was added to the IWF watchlist.[61] When Wikipedia blocked UK vandals by their IP address, this block affected all users coming from these IP addresses. As these IP addresses belonged to the filter proxies, all Wikipedia users in the UK attempting to edit an article without a login name were blocked. Some proxies also collapsed under load generated by Wikipedia traffic.[62]
After widespread coverage, IWF removed the Wikipedia page from its blacklist:
"IWF’s overriding objective is to minimise the availability of indecent images of children on the internet, however, on this occasion our efforts have had the opposite effect … We regret the unintended consequences for Wikipedia and its users."[63]
OOOPSIES!! But don’t worry, that would never happen here, would it?!
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