The day after I blog about the AMCA's blacklist and it's $11,000-a-day fine for linking to any of the pages on it, and here in the news the blacklist has been leaked on the Internet.
According to the smh article, Colin Jacobs, spokesman for the Electronic Frontiers Australia, has said the Government could be considered a "promoter and disseminator of links to some pretty unsavoury material." And it's true, here the AMCA are claiming that this list, and it's fines and regulations that go with it are here to protect people but they've essentially found all the bad websites on the Internet and put them all in one place. Curious kids, or even adults will now search and find the list and the AMCA's blacklist will actually encourage the visiting of these websites.
Unfortunately though it seems the list isn't all about the bad websites. There's plenty of unexplained content on there, including stuff from YouTube, religious websites including Christian websites and even a tour guide operator and Queensland dentist.
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