Australian Censorship

[KukriKhan]

This Report (on Wikileaks release of Norway's censorship list) suggests that barring alleged child porn sites is the "foot in the door" that eventually leads to un-accountable dns-banning by un-elected anonymous figures.

[HoreTore]

This Report (on Wikileaks release of Norway's censorship list) suggests that barring alleged child porn sites is the "foot in the door" that eventually leads to un-accountable dns-banning by un-elected anonymous figures.

If it was done by a department, any politician or, heaven forbid, PST, then I would be swinging my torch this very instance.

But, since it's done by the CP division of Kripos together with Telenor, I don't. And while your link state that they're not accountable, they are very much so. Firstly by chief of police who report to the justice department. Secondly, should they decide to block people who haven't published CP, all it would take is a lawsuit to remove the ban.

[KukriKhan]

Sounds like ya'll have the watchdogs well in-hand. Good on ya, then. Go Norway!

[Husar]

If it was done by a department, [...], then I would be swinging my torch this very instance. [...] Firstly by chief of police who report to the justice department.

(emphasis mine)

They're talking about banning child porn here as well but some ISPs don't really want to yet and say there has to be a law for it, the issue that it opens a pandora's box for internet censorship is also raised, personally I hope it's not going to happen, it would make more sense to me if they started to hunt the ones who produce the matierial, I mean they had less reasons to invade Iraq, so that they operate in foreign countries is not an excuse.