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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 "
The irony, the irony.
I find it amusing how you indulge yourself in displaying signs of your own amateurishness in operating well, your operating system. You, yourself admit the use of binary packages (a sure sign of administrative negligence in such a trivial package to install! I'm not flaming down the use of binaries, but at this level? You're ability is LAUGHABLE now!). RedHat and AOL? If this happens, I will commit hiri kiri after burning all copies of my RedHat CDs.
April 21-27-- Slashdot Blackout: Do your duty.
This is way too right wing for /. and is going to end up at -2000, but it needs to be aired:
I am not familiar with the details of the Oz handling of refugees, and no doubt they could do with cleaning up their act a bit, but the basic principle of imprisonment and repatriation is sound. Why?
Because if you make it too easy, you attract a ton of economic migrants which become a drain on your economy and social services, and it becomes unfair to your own citizens.
In the UK right now, an illegal immigrant who is a false asylum seeker and is in no danger at home has a far higher standard of living and far better government benefits than a UK citizen who has paid taxes all their life and is now retired and dependent on the paltry state old age pension. It's immoral.
The rules were written for a small handful of people being persecuted by regimes like Pol Pot, and are being exploited by hordes of people who can't be bothered to work for a living.
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 ) and yet somehow manage to travel across 7 or 8 countries and end up "seeking asylum" in the UK. Why? Because the UK is a soft touch.
It's far from an ideal way to filter, but for someone who *is* a genuine asylum seeker, 3 months in an internment camp where they are safe will seem like a holiday, and it's the best way possible of advertising to the rest that they ought to just stay at home.
The volume of these immigrants entering the UK is second only to the number of Mexicans entering the USA across the land border - the big difference is that illegal Mexicans come here to *work* not to sponge off Uncle Sam, because Uncle Sam doesn't do handouts; hence why they are tolerated and in most cases openly welcomed. My house in Austin TX was built largely by Mexican illegals - it's a good house.
Just ask any UK citizen which system they think is better, Australia's or their own.