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atara.livejournal.com

I looked at the mirrored blacklist that BoingBoing linked to. I didn't click on any of the links, but there was one Flickr site listed, goat.cx (don't go there if you don't know what it is - totally NSFW but not illegal as far as I understand), and a few sites that I know are just legitimate porn sites with no connection to anything illegal.

The ACMA's press release (http://www.acma.gov.au/WEB/STANDARD/pc=PC_311669) about the leak is so full of weasel words I could hardly get through it all.

ACMA has previously investigated and taken action on material—including child pornography and child sexual abuse images—at some of the sites on this list of 2300 URLs. However, the list provided to ACMA differs markedly in length and format to the ACMA blacklist. The ACMA blacklist has at no stage been 2300 URLs in length and at August 2008 consisted of 1061 URLs. It is therefore completely inaccurate to say that the list of 2300 URLs constitutes an ACMA blacklist.

Logic? Who needs that? Ha! According to the ACMA, because the list only contained 1061 URLs in August 2008, there's NO WAY it could have 2300 URLs now? That was seven months ago.

ACMA considers that any publication of the ACMA blacklist would have a substantial adverse effect on the effective administration of the regulatory scheme which aims to prevent access to harmful and offensive online material. Such publication would undermine the public interest outcomes which the current legislation aims to achieve.

"We're going to block you from seeing some things, but we're not going to let you know what we're blocking or why. Just trust us."

Bah. This reminds me that I need a copyfight/online rights icon, since Canada is having/going to have similar issues.