In a moment of severe irony the Australian Censorship Board had their website hacked (snicker) according to the folks at Wired.
This group has raised the ire of many folks concerning their attempts to censor online content. In addition to typical negative content categories they are also looking to block “websites of a tour operator, Queensland boarding kennel and a Queensland dentist. It also includes the Wikileaks website.”
From Wired:
Australia’s official online censorship board’s web page was offline Thursday, hours after hackers hijacked it to protest revelations the government was going to require ISPs to block public access to thousands of websites, many of which aren’t obscene. (including a dentist)
Anonymous hackers defaced the Censorship Board’s homepage — classification.gov.au — and restated the board’s public message in a chilling and humorous tone.
At the time of this posting (2.5 hours later) the site was still offline.
From ABC News Australia:
“Apparently without irony, ACMA threatens fines of up to $11,000 a day for linking to sites on its secret, unreviewable, censorship blacklist – a list the Government hopes to expand into a giant national censorship machine.”
Um, bite me ACMA.
For more on this story read the full article at Wired.