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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.
We the trolls and troll supporters of the proclaimed slashdot democracy will no longer sit quietly while the trolls voices are being silenced by the oppressive slashdot programers. We demand a code change to allow troll supporters to filter messages out their view which are rated HIGHER than a threshold value. As we all know, the ignorant, elitist authors of the slash code have tried to silence the trolls by allowing non-trolls to filter out dissenting opinions based on a majority rules, herd mentality moderating system. This created a system where moderate opinions are swayed by the majority, creating a monopoly of influence. Slashdot readers have formed a two party political system. The parties are the Trolls and the Tacos (named after their prophetic leader, CmdrTaco). When you consider the slashdot community as a political machine, it becomes clear that the Taco's have tried to silence the Trolls with this flawed "democratic" moderating system.
We demand a new message viewing moderation system where the individual user is able to select a political party if she/he desires. The following is a spec for an improved democratic system.
- I as a troll may select TROLLS as my political preference. Then, when I read comments attached to an article, I may set my preferences to view messages moderated LOWER than a chosen value.
- A Taco may select TACO as his/her political preference. When a Taco reads comments, he can choose to view articles moderated ABOVE a chosen value.
- The Independant reader may choose to select INDEPENDANT as his preference. She/he may choose to choose to view the best of each party's comments. The preference setting would be something like
abs(commentRating) >= userThreshold
- Also, some planning should be done to add suport for >2 party system.
To show support for this idea, submit it as a story to slashdot as often as possible, mail it to slashdot editors, and post it to as many slashdot articles as you can.
Color flashing, thunder crashing, dynamite machines.
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.
The War on Terror, War on Drugs, and War on Hackers is more important than freedom will ever be from now on. If people were good responsible Christian folks then it would be different. I shouldn't have to say that pornography, drug information, abortion, homosexuality, etc. are ruining nations all over the world.
Australia is going in the right direction by outlawing filth, why isn't the United States? I think Bush should just pass an executive order which suspends the Constitution indefinitely, orders everyone into Church, and outlaws all this evil filth.
A note to all you whiners out there... PICK UP A BIBLE.
GOD BLESS AMERICA
"and holds hundreds of innocent civilians WITHOUT TRIAL just because they are of arab descent"
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Now can you foreigners _please_ stop with this bullshit
There are millions of people of Arab descent and only small fraction of them is being held up and not because they are Arabs but because they are in some way connected to events of Septembet 11th.
5. Stephen King is an android created by the Australian government. He can never die.
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.
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