"Unwanted Content"

[Dan Rowden]

This is the unwanted content thread. Just thought I'd contribute. Pardon my weird sense of humour.

[Blair]

It would be sweet if all of jehu's posts got dumped into this thread.

[Shahrazad]

Jehu's blogs contribute a lot to this place. Too bad he only blogs in one thread.

[David Quinn]

He'd make a good theologian. If he was any drier, he would combust.

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[Foreigner]

He'd make a good theologian. If he was any drier, he would combust.

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haha. So, what do you know about the guy, where's he from?

[Jason]

The Australian internet censorship issue is starting to get crazy. Protesters have begun intentionally baiting the censors:

Great Aussie firewall claims first victim.

Broadband discussion forum Whirlpool was threatened with an A$11,000 (£5,148) a day fine by the Australian Communications and Media Authority because a commenter posted a link to an anti-abortion website which appeared on the regulator's list of websites banned in Australia.

That's right folks, a simple text link(merely to photos of aborted fetuses) leads to $11,000/day fines if not removed!

Then this happens:

Activists use Wikipedia to bait blacklist regulator

The Wikipedia page for the Australian Communications and Media Authority holds a link to a site on the authority's blacklist in a further test to the regulator's ability to censor the internet.

Within days, a loose coalition of Australian activists hope to prove that filtering the internet by a blacklist is flawed.

If this works ACMA will be forced to blacklist the entry about ACMA in wikipedia!

If that wasn't enough, the list of censored sites, the blacklist held in secrecy by the government, has been leaked and sites that link to the blacklist itself may now be blacklisted and fined!

Australia's Web blacklist leaked

The secretive Internet filter blacklist held by the communications watchdog ACMA has been leaked, revealing the government has understated the amount of banned Web pages by more than 1000.

Multiple legitimate businesses and Web sites have been banned including two bus companies, online poker sites, multiple Wikipedia entries, Google and Yahoo group pages, a dental surgery and a tour operator.

[Ataraxia]

It's really hotting up isn't it, Jason? As it dawns on people what this is really about I think we will see ever more outrage. I'm inclined to agree with this author; this may well be the most serious attacks on citizens rights that we have seen in Australia in the last few decades.

http://www.crikey.com.au/Politics/20090 ... rs-up.html