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The Australian government released a report today about trials it had carried out to see if Internet censorship was viable. The report concludes that internet censorship is possible (although it calls it 'filtering'), and the government plans to pass legislation in 2010 to force Australian ISPs to block material that has been refused classification by Australia's censorship officials. (1) The list of sites to be censored will be secret and unaccountable, although earlier this year the Wikileaks site published a leaked version of a then-current list of sites (2) which Australian-based websites may not link to, at the risk of an A$11 000 fine - which an Australian website was threatened with earlier this year after linking to an anti-abortion site. (3) Despite this, Senator Conroy claimed "It is completely untrue that the leaked blacklist contains political content. This is a list which contains sites that promote incest, rape, child pornography and child abuse", and was further embarrassed when the leaked list revealed that an innocent dentists' site had been placed on the list of banned sites.

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