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Australia’s internet filter blacklist leaked

19 March 2009

ABC News Online reports that Wikileaks, an organisation that aims to reveal secret information, today published what it claims to be the ACMA blacklist.   The Australian Government is planning to introduce a mandatory internet filter that will block access to a list of dangerous websites.  Today’s leak has prompted an internet advocacy group to accuse the Government of making it easy to access child pornography.  The full story is on ABC News Online and ZDNet Australia is also covering the story and the response on Twitter.

UPDATE: ABC News Online reports that Senator Stephen Conroy has denied that the official list was leaked.