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Censoring Australian Censors' Blacklist
steveroehrs writes: "'Your access to the Web is being censored by the Government -- but it refuses to reveal exactly what it is we are not allowed to see.' Despite the attempts of Electronic Frontiers Australia in obtaining a copy of the Australian Internet black-list, the Australian government is still refusing to release the list to the public. This is in stark contrast to the situation for film classification, where the list is freely available. Article here "
RedHat/7.2 is a fucking piece of shit! First, something explodes which causes all the man pages to segfault! "groff: troff: Segmentation fault" each time! Oh, what a wonderful OS! Then, it crashes when I try to upgrade the groff RPMs! The fucking process got stuck in "D" uninterruptable-sleep status, not even kill-9'able! What a flaming piece of shit!
Now, all of this happens after a 10-day ordeal trying to just get it (and 7.1) to install without problems there! (FTP errors, can't get the fucking network card module loaded, disk errors, vmlinuz crashing on boot, etc.)! Oh, what a wonderfully stable OS! Definitely ready for the desktop! Can you imagine your grandmother trying to figure out what the installer meant by "Error -2147483630 reading header: cpio: failed - Success" !?!?
RedHat/7.2: Perfect for AOL! What a flaming heap of monkey shit!
Or so says Bush and Ashcroft.
I am awed and inspired by the quality of Trolls and their posts. So much so, that I desire to join your ranks.
Can anyone point me in the right direction where I might find information on this subject?
And I'm supposed to post this a lot, right?
Troll 3:16 - And God so loveth the world that he gave his only begotton Troll...
Some Slashdotters are too paranoid for their own good. How can you point to a randomized group moderation system and cry "Conspiracy!"
If you are that upset that your posts got modded down, then 1) write better posts, 2) accept that most Slashdotters hold different opinions from yours, and/or 3) TURN OFF THE F##$%ING COMPUTER AND GO DO SOMETHING MORE IMPORTANT.
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Aha, I see you reaching for the mouse. You're going to mod me down anyway. What would you prefer I post about? Nobody likes a karma whore.
Although you're at +2 I'm sure the editors will quickly mod you down. THERE WILL BE NEGATIVE COMMENTS TOWARDS THE EDITORS ON SLASHDOT!!
govt: "hey Bill, we want to put something in Windows for tracking..."
Bill: "tracking of what?"
govt: "nevermind what, it will help you too."
Bill: "how?"
govt: "you will know every web site that every person in Australia that uses a MS OS visits!"
Bill: "Cool! when do you want it?"
govt: "01/01/2001."
Bill: "ok."
suddenly tracking has been turned in to censorship...
Australians are obviously dumb...
oh that's right, the are offspring of British degenerate criminals!
it all makes sense now...
Pauline Hanson is a racist Australian politician.
Q: What's the difference between Pauline Hanson and a bucket of sludge?
A: The bucket.
Q: Why is Pauline Hanson like the commentator at Rosehill?
A: They both start shouting when they see a new race.
Q: Why did Pauline Hanson choke on her yoghurt?
A: Someone told her it grew out af a foreign culture.
Q: Why is Pauline Hanson like a drug runner?
A: They're both afraid of foriegn customs.
Q: Why is Pauline Hanson like pooing out of your own pants?
A: Because you only do it when you're really scared.
-Mtrllc
Cool. In less than 10 minutes I've already got Negative Karma. But I wanted to be moderated "Troll" not "Offtopic". Any suggestions?
Troll 3:16 - And God so loveth the world that he gave his only begotton Troll...
Q: Why are Australian niggers called boongs?
A: That's the sound they make when they bounce off your front fender.
Q: Why does the Australian dingo only steal white babies?
A: Because the dingo doesn't eat shit.
-Mtrllc
Here is a mirror of the article... http://www.mirrors.org/censoring
Dont allow the slashdot editors to hide information from you.
READ IT FOR YOURSELF.
Make sure you note the massive amounts of -1 moderations, all done simultaneously, obviously by an editor.
Stand up. Make your voice heard. Tell the slashdot staff you will not tolerate editor moderation on large scales, such as this!
Donate three karma to the cause of fighting censorship on slashdot! Post your support in the thread at +2, and let the editors moderate you to -1. You, too, can donate your karma for a worthy cause, as a visible example of censorship in action.
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This is Richard Stallman here and I do not appreciate your post one bit motherfucker. I am now going to show a side of myself few see...
;)
Please take your fucking sig and shove it up your fucking ass. I am not one you want to make an enemy of. You do _NOT WANT THE GNU AFTER YOU_.
Software is like sex -- it's better if RMS isn't involved.
Well me kicking your ass is like me fucking your mother. It's much better if you are there watch it and even join in. Don't worry I will not give you that many shots to the eyes fucker.
If you want me to further kick your fucking ass please email me. The address can be found at my homepage: http://www.stallman.org/
Sincerly,
Richard Stallman
BTW, the GNU see all and knows all.
I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Horror/Sci Fi writer Stephen King was found dead in his Maine home this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.
I have some free time and a new TV... where can I get the list of banned porno films?
No comment at this time
Get your free ads on the scoop homepage! All you need is an easy to set up user account!
Can't posts actually go to -2 at which point they are deleted? I thought I read something like that.
On another topic: I use to get mod points quite often, but in the past several months have never. Is there a moderation perma-revoke, and if so how is it triggered? Metamods disagreeing with my mods? The Slashdot crew? I'm very curious.
You have an exciting life. But sometimes exciting lives can be a downside like it was with you.
Anyway, I hope this post gives me as much pleasure this time as it did last time. Keep up the good work.
-Mr. Horn Y. Bastard
I cannot wait until you create a new "hazards of research" post.
Not quite true - once the threads are archived all -1 posts are gone aren't they? Including a very famous one ...
She quit the other day, youl have to find a new target.
Interesting?
More like moronic.
There is no filter in Australia. Anything can be accessed.
Isn't it just a country where everyone gets pissed all day long and fucks the kangaroos?
2 words
"Ignorant American"
take away guns and the rest will follow
Do not blame us for bloody Stephen King. Maybe he should have a sign on the front door "I'm not dead. I'm just a very heavy sleeper."
At the end of 2001, Mayor Huang (of South
Australia's capital - Adelaide) ordered
that the Indigenous flag be REMOVED from
Adelaide's centre (i.e. Victoria Square).
The Adelaide Club is said to maintain its
"men only" rule.
Today's news reports that at least 50 of
the people who risked life & limb to come
to Australia in small, overcrowded ships
have now sewn their lips together, by way
of protesting their treatment... they are
being held - far from civilisation (such
as it is here...) in the middle of the
dessert, in detention centres run by a
private sector co. (from USA).
(At the same time, others - who made it
to New Zealand, instead of Australia -
have their freedom to seek work (unlike
"our" asylum seekers) and live in the
community, i.e. while their applications
are being processed. Which seems better?)
Doesn't all this suggest a pattern of
a tradition that -really- doesn't care
about rights... neither its own nor
-other- people's.
At the same time, all around us, we see:
WAY TOO MANY YOUNG Australians
committing suicide every year,
despite all the reports about
"how good it is" here...
So, tell me... is there no room for
improvement in Australia...?
You bet there is!
Mode 0x13
Slashdottoire
Its not the findings of this post that disturb me so much, actually I don't really agree with his post. Its the fact that the editors decided to massively override the hundreds of moderations in favor of this post, and not only that, to moderate down many long time users who have never trolled, simply for replying to his post.
In my opinion moderation works pretty well most of the time. But it is definitely a system whereby the editors of this site implicity trust the moderators to regulate the system. Yes, negativekarmanow's post was offtopic. But it was also interesting, dammit. Interesting is another perfectly valid moderation option. The users of this site that moderated this post found it interesting, yet the editors overrode the users(on a massive scale) and decreed that this post was offtopic. Funny, I don't remember reading in the moderation FAQ that offtopic overrode interesting. Maybe there are valid moderators out there who consider interesting to be more important than offtopic?
Speaking of things that aren't in the FAQ, what about the editor moderations themselves? This isn't mentioned anywhere in the FAQ. If you dig, you can find posts by Jamie admitting that the editors moderate. But nowhere does he say they will use their unlimited power to override regular users moderation. I mean think about it, thats about as bad of a flaw as you can get. How can anyone possibly trust using the moderation system knowing that they can be overridden by the editors? How can anybody metamoderate knowing that such action may be potentially useless as the editors have amply proven that they will decide what is a valid moderation and what is not.
Also, I feel particularly offended by this comment from another editor. The moderation FAQ recommends people getting involved and posting often. But Michael says if you have posted 700 comments you need to get a life. Fort Knox has a user ID close to mine meaning he's been here for over two years. That's just under one comment a day(I have posted at a similar rate over my history). So folks, if you post just one comment a day you are a loser who needs to get a life, according to at least one editor.
I recommend at minimum these issues get addressed in the moderation FAQ, and a meta-story would be even better. Until then, I'm clicking the "Unwilling to Moderate" checkbox, and I'll certainly view every censorship story with a raised eyebrow.
No, Thursday's out. How about never - is never good for you?
The fact that this is +4 insightful is probably the straw that broke the camels back for me and /.
These people are supposedly fleeing for their lives from places like *Turkey* (UK travel agents sell package cruise holidays to Turkey for f***'s sake )
Is there any logic here? UK Travel agents will ship you anywhere for cash. China! Random african countries! Russia! Israel! You think none of these places abuse human rights enough for anyone to be fleeing their life? Please. As for turkey read this
Just ask any UK citizen which system they think is better, Australia's or their own.
The UK's. And I'm not the only one, even if we are a minority.
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