Australian PM Has Parody Site Shut Down

babbling writes "The Australian Government has shut down a parody website that mocked Australian Prime Minister John Howard. The website featured a satirical speech that 'apologised' for the Iraq war. The site was down for two days before a phone call from Melbourne IT advised the owner that it had been shut down 'on the advice from the Australian Government'. A mirrored PDF copy of the "apology speech" is available."

Comments

What do you expect...?

[McFadden]

John Howard is a fully paid up member of the "Coalition of the Willing". Bush's buddies, hellbent on "bringing democracy to Iraq" whilst simultaneously removing any trace of it from their own countries.

Re:I'd rather

[smithmc]

  Let me use an analogy... If I have some food on the corner of mouth after I eat, I hope my friends will tell me about it, and not just ignore it because some guy down the hall spilled his entire meal on his tie.

The correct analogy would be if you had some food on the corner of your mouth, and one friend pointed it out, and another person sitting at the table said "Aw, that's nothing. This other guy spills food on his tie, too! Let's bust his chops about it, even though it wasn't the topic of conversation!". See? You were just itching for yet another opportunity to slag on the US, even though TFA was about Australia. But I suppose I shouldn't be surprised, since slagging on the US is Slashdot's #1 or #2 favorite pastime (or maybe in a dead heat with Microsoft).