Of Mandatory Censorship & Fines For Hyperlinks
Posted by Revelation 23 on April 5, 2009
Thanks to Daniel Haggard for bringing this to my attention. Hopefully I can do the same for someone wandering through.
The Australian Communications and Media Authority has stated that it will issue fines for those who link to pages that are on its blacklist and can otherwise compel site owners and operators to remove pages and content, even without the planned mandatory censorship legislation in place.
While I may be in America, I see this as something that can have an effect outside of Australia, with other countries and governments using this a precedent to exert control over the internet and what goes on it. As it stands, some places in the world do not have the amount of access many of us have and what the ACMA is currently doing (or trying to do) could very well make it so that the gap closes.
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