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The website for the Office and Film and Literature Classification, the Australian ratings body that assigns age-based content ratings to media has been hacked . The website has been temporarily taken down.

The hackers added a message to the front page that said "This site contains information about the boards that have the right to CONTROL YOUR FREEDOMZ," according to GameSpot. "The Classification Board has the right to not just classify content, but also the right to DECIDE WHAT IS AND ISNT APPROPRIATE and BAN CONTENT FROM THE PUBLIC." The attack could be in response to last night's ABC Q&A show, in which Minister for Communications Stephen Conroy spoke about a plan for mandatory Internet filtering.

 

http://www.joystiq.com/2009/03/27/australian-ratings-board-website-now-classified-as-hacked/