[AusNOG] That list

[Mark Newton]

On 19/03/2009, at 1:31 PM, Bevan Slattery wrote:

> Nog’ers,
>
> The previous thread has been deleted and removed from archive.   
> Regardless how you feel about what is going on with censorship/ 
> cleanfeed the law is the law and Wikileaks is now on the banned list.

With all due respect, Bevan:

What law makes it illegal to link to something just because it happens  
to
be on the banned list?

For that matter, what law makes it illegal to repost actual content  
which
happens to be on the banned list?

The ACMA's prohibited content list is not a list of illegal content,  
it's a list
of content which the ACMA, by legislation, has determined to be  
unsuitable
for children.  That's what "prohibited content" means.

I can understand it if you're feeling edgy about maybe running afoul  
of a
law you don't understand.  If that's the case, then say that;  there's  
no need
to assert that discussing and linking Wikileaks.org has suddenly become
illegal when it manifestly hasn't.  If the ACMA wants you to take it  
down
they'll send a link deletion notice.  Until you get one of them, there  
is no
basis to assume that discussion, reference and linkage is off-limits.

   - mark


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