[pp.int.general] Mandatory Internet filtering becoming full spread in Australia

Philip Hunt cabalamat at googlemail.com
Wed Dec 16 16:58:11 CET 2009


2009/12/16 Brian McNeil <brian.mcneil at wikinewsie.org>:
>> Technology used in filtering was mainly DNS-based. A Finnish Internet
>> activist Matti Nikki [...] published
>> his findings on a dedicated website http://lapsiporno.info
>> ("childporn.info"). People audited the list, and found out (IIRC) that
>> there was <5% actual child pornography.
>
> I can't access this in the UK. I get a very quick 404 response.

I'm also in the UK, and I can access it. (My ISP is Demon, which AFAIK
uses the IWF filer; they certainly did when IWF blocked Wikipedia).

> Just to mess with their heads I shall report the mirror that worked for
> me to the IWF.

If I were you I'd point out that the original doesn't contain porn and
ask them why they blocked it.

-- 
Philip Hunt, <cabalamat at googlemail.com>
Campaigns Officer, Pirate Party UK


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