Intellectual Property Law

Australian Blacklist Revealed?

By Tim Armstrong, Derek Bambauer, and William McGeveran.

According to BoingBoing and Slashdot, the blacklist compiled by the Australian Communications and Media Authority has been posted to Wikileaks. It appears that the posted blacklist is an older one. What’s made this controversial is that Australia is now evidently blacklisting Wikileaks. As I suggest in my paper on this topic, this type of expanded blocking is inevitable: governments inevitably target unrelated sites that point to, or enable access to, banned material.

Full post as published by Info/Law on November 29, 1999 (boomark / email).