{"id":605,"date":"2009-03-19T18:22:24","date_gmt":"2009-03-19T07:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=605"},"modified":"2009-03-20T04:55:41","modified_gmt":"2009-03-19T17:55:41","slug":"cant-have-it-both-ways-senator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=605","title":{"rendered":"Can&#8217;t have it both ways, Senator"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/stories\/2009\/03\/19\/2520929.htm\">Leaked blacklist irresponsible, inaccurate: Conroy<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>By News Online&#8217;s Nic MacBean<\/p>\n<p>Broadband and Communications Minister Stephen Conroy says a list claiming to be the communication regulator&#8217;s blacklist for a proposed internet filtering system is not the real blacklist.<\/p>\n<p>He has condemned Wikileaks, the website that published the list, as &#8220;grossly irresponsible&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The leak and publication of prohibited URLs is grossly irresponsible. It undermines efforts to improve cyber-safety and create a safe online environment for children,&#8221; Senator Conroy said.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am aware of reports that a list of URLs has been placed on a website. This is not the ACMA blacklist.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;ACMA is investigating this matter and is considering a range of possible actions it may take including referral to the Australian Federal Police. Any Australian involved in making this content publicly available would be at serious risk of criminal prosecution.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The good Senator damns the publication of &#8216;prohibited URLs&#8217; (prohibited by <em>whom<\/em>, sir?), threatens criminal prosecution (fat chance, bro), but in the same breath says &#8220;This is not the ACMA blacklist.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wikileaks.com\/wiki\/Australian_government_secret_ACMA_internet_censorship_blacklist%2C_6_Aug_2008\">list on Wikileaks<\/a> is not the ACMA banlist as claimed, Senator Conjob won&#8217;t be prosecuting anyone.<\/p>\n<p>The spray of threats indicates nothing but a man in deep fear of EPIC FAIL.<\/p>\n<p>Rotsaruck, Senator.<\/p>\n<p>-weez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leaked blacklist irresponsible, inaccurate: Conroy By News Online&#8217;s Nic MacBean Broadband and Communications Minister Stephen Conroy says a list claiming to be the communication regulator&#8217;s blacklist for a proposed internet filtering system is not the real blacklist. He has condemned Wikileaks, the website that published the list, as &#8220;grossly irresponsible&#8221;. [&#8230;] &#8220;The leak and publication [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}