Note that this document and story are actually about a recent EU-style data retention proposal, not the internet filtering / web censorship policy (which has been bumbling along for quite a while now).
Austrialia censors 90% of web censorship plan to avoid "unnecessary debate"
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Re: Austrialia censors 90% of web censorship plan to avoid "unnecessary debate"
#12Australia, is turning into an e-Tibet ... Get ready for millions of innocent websites dying at the hands of OberFuhrer Robert McClelland. Yeah, that statement may sound over-hyped today, but come talk to me a year after that thing gets signed into law. Aussies have gone soft, in the balls (they were already soft in the head -- which was the only good thing keeping democracy alive in Australia until now). edit: an att…
I think you will understand how offensive and unnecessary your first statement is after looking at this photo: http://www.hollow-hill.com/sabina/images/auschwitz-corpses.j...
Re: Austrialia censors 90% of web censorship plan to avoid "unnecessary debate"
#13What is the Australian government's political rational behind implementing this plan? I highly doubt Australia has a contingent of voters who demand Internet censorship, and unlike China it's not like there's some sort of regime that needs to purge unfriendly ideas from circulating. This whole endeavor seems completely unnecessary. Any Australians know what the heck is behind this?
It's a hung parliament with the balance of power held by a small group of bible thumping right wingers.
They wish to show to their voters that they are doing something to fight the waves of terrorism and filth that are warping the tiny minds of vunerable australian children.
And to distract anyone from finding out about their affairs, dodgy real estate deals and child abuse.
Re: Austrialia censors 90% of web censorship plan to avoid "unnecessary debate"
#14Australia, is turning into an e-Tibet ... Get ready for millions of innocent websites dying at the hands of OberFuhrer Robert McClelland. Yeah, that statement may sound over-hyped today, but come talk to me a year after that thing gets signed into law. Aussies have gone soft, in the balls (they were already soft in the head -- which was the only good thing keeping democracy alive in Australia until now). edit: an att…
I think you will understand how offensive and unnecessary your first statement is after looking at this photo: http://www.hollow-hill.com/sabina/images/auschwitz-corpses.j...
I think you will understand how analogy works by watching this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-fI3KEgy6c
edited to add: Beware, for history repeats itself. Just because heinous crimes were documented in the past is no guarantee that they will not be repeated by spineless authoritarians.
Re: Austrialia censors 90% of web censorship plan to avoid "unnecessary debate"
#15Australia, is turning into an e-Tibet ... Get ready for millions of innocent websites dying at the hands of OberFuhrer Robert McClelland. Yeah, that statement may sound over-hyped today, but come talk to me a year after that thing gets signed into law. Aussies have gone soft, in the balls (they were already soft in the head -- which was the only good thing keeping democracy alive in Australia until now). edit: an att…
I think you will understand how offensive and unnecessary your first statement is after looking at this photo: http://www.hollow-hill.com/sabina/images/auschwitz-corpses.j...
Yes Australians had the decency to slowly wipe out the indigenous people out of sight over a century rather than being all teutonic and efficient about it.
Re: Austrialia censors 90% of web censorship plan to avoid "unnecessary debate"
#16Australia, is turning into an e-Tibet ... Get ready for millions of innocent websites dying at the hands of OberFuhrer Robert McClelland. Yeah, that statement may sound over-hyped today, but come talk to me a year after that thing gets signed into law. Aussies have gone soft, in the balls (they were already soft in the head -- which was the only good thing keeping democracy alive in Australia until now). edit: an att…
I think you will understand how offensive and unnecessary your first statement is after looking at this photo: http://www.hollow-hill.com/sabina/images/auschwitz-corpses.j...
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Re: Austrialia censors 90% of web censorship plan to avoid "unnecessary debate"
#17What is the Australian government's political rational behind implementing this plan? I highly doubt Australia has a contingent of voters who demand Internet censorship, and unlike China it's not like there's some sort of regime that needs to purge unfriendly ideas from circulating. This whole endeavor seems completely unnecessary. Any Australians know what the heck is behind this?
It's a combination of Stephen Conroy's good intentions (wanting to block child porn) mixed with bad advice he's receiving (mandatory filter).
Add to that a dash of stubbornness (he refuses to back down, even though he's been shown better solutions) and probably just a hint of corruption (the whole channel 7 broadcasting fee debacle) and you have yourself a recipe for disaster.
Re: Austrialia censors 90% of web censorship plan to avoid "unnecessary debate"
#18What is the Australian government's political rational behind implementing this plan? I highly doubt Australia has a contingent of voters who demand Internet censorship, and unlike China it's not like there's some sort of regime that needs to purge unfriendly ideas from circulating. This whole endeavor seems completely unnecessary. Any Australians know what the heck is behind this?
The confusing thing is the people implementing the decisions seem to know very little about the way the web works. The filter itself is being brought under the premise of filtering out child porn and 'undesirable and illegal content', however minutes from a meeting earlier this year detailed that only around 30% of the filtered list dealt with this sort of material. There has been no explanation as to what the other 70% deals with; that part is what concerns me.
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#19I often wonder what is at the heart of massive snooping/censorship schemes like these. I'm still waiting on the data that supports a link between violent media and violent people, sexually explicit pictures and acts of sexual violence, and transparency sponsoring open debate leading to anarchy.
Exactly. I'm pretty sure Hitler had exposure to neither video games or the Internet and yet look what he went on to do.
Godwin's Law, never fails.
Re: Austrialia censors 90% of web censorship plan to avoid "unnecessary debate"
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think you will understand how offensive and unnecessary your first statement is after looking at this photo: http://www.hollow-hill.com/sabina/images/auschwitz-corpses.j...
Yes Australians had the decency to slowly wipe out the indigenous people out of sight over a century rather than being all teutonic and efficient about it.
What a troll you are! Oh! Yes! You are!