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Australia Says No to Internet Censorship
Brenton Fletcher writes "A nationwide protest rally against the internet censorship filter proposed by the Australian Labor Government was held today. Over 9,000 people were slated to attend. I was fortunate enough to go to the rally on the steps of Parliament House in Adelaide, South Australia. I heard speeches from the Digital Liberty Coalition, the Green Left Weekly, and other concerned members of the public." Reader mask.of.sanity adds a link to ComputerWorld's photo-heavy coverage of the gatherings.
The fewer countries we have trying this utter shit, the less likely other places are.
To the jackass who pushed for this: FUCK YOU. Go suck on Jesus' cock. We all know it's your secret fantasy, you fucking Christian nutter.
Who's to say a /b/tard didn't submit the story? Anonymous is everywhere...
the legislature still represents the will of the people
but you just don't understand that, because you think "major party" is some sort of abstract concept of oppression, rather than what it is: the fucking will of the fucking people
you are cynical, ultranegative, helpness, and uneducated, and prone to hysterical conclusions about the society you live in and how it really works
you fucking cite SOUTH PARK, jesus christ. you apparently like to telegraph your lowest common denominator thinking and expect what, respect?
you are one step above a slave, by your own thinking
if democratic societies fail, and they do, they do through the thinking of people just like you: the perfect cowered helpless sniveling worm
when an autocrat rises in a democratic society, and begins to chip away at its democratic institutions, he depends upon the common man to do nothing about it, for reasons THAT ARE YOUR EXACT SAME THOUGHT PROCESSES
your government, worm, is an extension of your will, REALLY
go ahead, refute that
when you do, you do it for reasons that are failures of your own retarded thinking, and become part of the fucking problem
fucking loser
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
I am Australian and I do not accept internet censorship lightly although I was unable to attend the protest. Krudd (Kevin Rudd) wants to copy china and maybe he even has plans to stop people talking about the government in the future too.
I believe we need freedom of speech in our democracy we have a echelon(well one i know of), spooks (people posing as children to catch pedophiles) which most other countries have but we've seen ads on television about it. And well last I knew the AFP where allowed to break into your computer without a warrant if you fall into a certain category.
So there are enough crazy measures in place without the need for "Australia's Great Firewall".
That's all.
The grass isn't always greener on the other side. Take the time to water your own grass and it can be just as green.