After a quick scan through the restricted classification database on
the censors site, from which it appears that detailed instructions on
the production of homemade gun silencers is rated RC, I managed to
find a random YouTube video showing such details, and submitted it to
see what the process is like.

As expected, it's a fairly trivially automatable process, with a
single captcha to prevent automated submission. This should be pretty
trivial to wrap in a website, so that we'd just need to build a URL
list in advance, ask random interweb volunteers to look at and solve
catchas, and the rest would be done more or less automatically.

I know some of the filtering systems will use DNS to prefilter HTTP
requests, resolving all sites present in the block list across to the
proxies that do the more detailed filtering. This, by the way, is how
half of the UK appeared to be arriving at Wikipedia from the same IP
address earlier in the year.

Assuming this test complaint gets approved, something similar should
happen to all Australian traffic going to YouTube for any ISP using
that kind of filter system.

We'll see how it goes, and I'm sure we're rapidly getting to the point
where we should move this discussion off the SLUG list...

Adam K

2009/12/17 Daniel Pittman <[email protected]>:
> The ACMA process is documented on their website and, yes, does apparently
> involve a human review of the details.  This existing system is used as the
> basis for the updated mandatory component of the system.
>
> ...and you could probably overload that with a few thousand items a day,
> personally, since it is not designed for high volume use; they envision less
> than 20K to 30K items on that particular list.
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