| | By Nick Farrell in Rome @ Friday, March 20, 2009 8:13 AM
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| | A top secret list of websites that the Aussie government wants to block has been posted online.
 According to the Sydney Morning Herald the list includes a popular porn site which is ranked as the 38th most popular site in Australia. Also included are pages on Wikipedia, Youtube and Wikileaks as well as online gambling sites.
While the Australian government has admitted that some of the list is real, it denies that it is completely accurate.
The secret blacklist of illegal sites, maintained by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA), is the basis of the Federal government's web filtering plan.
It is a list of sites that ISPs will be forced to block if the government's Chinese style “great rabbit proof fence” filtering system goes ahead.
The list is so secret that publishing it can get you ten years in prison.
The list was published on a public website without any age verification or warnings. However, Communications Minister Stephen Conroy claims it is a fake because it is too long.
Meanwhile, a large number of the URLs on the list were correct, which leads many to believe that it was a real list that has been embellished somewhat.
Vice-chair of Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA) Colin Jacobs said that the list confirmed his organisation's worst fears and that the government is going to use the list to shut down thought crime on subjects it does not like. X
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