[4056] in Privacy_Forum
[ PRIVACY Forum ] Governments already abusing website blocking
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (PRIVACY Forum mailing list)
Thu May 16 12:08:13 2013
Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 08:52:26 -0700
To: privacy-list@vortex.com
Message-ID: <20130516155226.GC26289@vortex.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Disposition: inline
From: PRIVACY Forum mailing list <privacy@vortex.com>
Reply-To: PRIVACY Forum mailing list <privacy@vortex.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Errors-To: privacy-bounces+privacy-forum=mit.edu@vortex.com
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Governments already abusing website blocking facilities (surprise!)
http://j.mp/m1t7oU (Delimiter)
ASIC believed that the website in question was operating in breach of
Australian law, specifically section 911a of the Corporations Act
2001," Conroy's office said. "Under Section 313 of the
Telecommunications Act, websites that breach Australian law can be
blocked." "Melbourne Free University's website was hosted at the same
IP address as the fraud website, and was unintentionally blocked. Once
ASIC were made aware of what had happened, they lifted the original
blocking request. The government is working with enforcement agencies
to ensure that Section 313 requests are properly targeted in future."
- - -
Website blocking is a cancer. It never stays in one place, but spreads
to the limits of politicos' imaginations.
--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren
Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info
Founder:
- Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org
- PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info
- Data Wisdom Explorers League: http://www.dwel.org
- Global Coalition for Transparent Internet Performance: http://www.gctip.org
Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy
Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com
Google+: http://vortex.com/g+lauren / Twitter: http://vortex.com/t-lauren
Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com
_______________________________________________
privacy mailing list
http://lists.vortex.com/mailman/listinfo/privacy
