Electronic Frontiers Austrailia reports that the government will begin blocking websites listed in a top-secret document beginning in 2010.

EFA says that “while this is sold as a kid-friendly measure, to ‘improve safety of the internet for families‚Äù, it‚Äôs clearly nothing of the sort. A few thousand URLs hardly constitutes a national net nanny. The list would almost be laughable if it was not only mandatory but secret ‚Äì unlike censorship decisions made in other media, blocked URLs will remain secret and expressly excluded from freedom of information requests. Just as worrying is the fact that once this list is in, a conga-line of special interests will be approaching the government to have their pet peeves added to the list. It‚Äôs not much of a stretch to imagine AFACT (Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft) clamouring to have bittorrent trackers added, and several parliamentarians are on record calling for a ban on pro-anorexia sites and pornography in general.”

I guess we will have to wait for the inevitable Wikileaks leak to see who really makes the list.