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Activists Use Wikipedia To Test Aussie Net Censors

pnorth writes "Editors at Wikipedia have removed a link to a blacklisted web site that sat uncontested for over 24 hours in the main body of the Australian regulator's own Wikipedia entry. The link, which directs readers to a site containing graphic imagery of aborted foetuses, was inserted into ACMA's Wikipedia entry by a campaigner against Internet filtering to determine whether Australia's communications regulator had a double-standard when it came to censoring web content. The very same link motivated the regulator to serve Aussie broadband forum Whirlpool's hosting company with a 'link deletion notice' and the threat of an $11,000 fine. Last night, the link became the subject of 'warring' between several Wikipedia administrators in the lead up to its removal, with administrators saying they didn't want to be used to prove a point."

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  1. Re:Oblig XKCD by Tubal-Cain · · Score: 0, Offtopic

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  2. Re:Blacklist from wikileaks by AI0867 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Second part:

    quuuuuuuuuux lameness filter is highly annoying again, could we get rid of that please? or maybe I can just paste some dissociated press somewhere

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    And yet again, but this time another long sentence that makes no sense whatsoever or maybe it will this time, we could try to find out or something or we can just keep typing. Maybe it is long enough yet but probably not

    Usually when one mentions the words âoeDetroitâ and âoeRenaissanceâ together, one is referring to Detroitâ(TM)s Renaissance Center, four 39-story towers which were originally a Ford Motor Company development project in the early 1970â(TM)s and are now owned by General Motors. As someone who grew up in nearby Ann Arbor, with its tree-lined streets, PhD-educated cab drivers, and insanely overpriced real estate, Iâ(TM)ve always sadly thought of Detroit in the same way I might think of Beirut: a slightly scary, bombed-out city that I might have to pass through to go elsewhere.

    At the same time, Iâ(TM)ve always held some hope for the place, in spite of its history of corrupt mayors and urban blight. Iâ(TM)ve always though that if Cleveland can do it, so can Detroit. Which is why the Powerhouse Project excites me. Although a small project initiated by a handful of people, itâ(TM)s gaining international attention thanks to groups like Amsterdamâ(TM)s Detroit UnReal Estate Agency. The basic story is that Detroit couple Gina Reichert and Mitch Cope bought a run-down house in northern Hamtramck (letâ(TM)s start calling it âoeNoHamâ!) for $1900.00 with the intention of building a mini green power grid in the neighborhood. The project has snowballed a little, so theyâ(TM)ve gotten considerable positive press. To learn more, check out this piece at ModeldMedia.com, this NYT Op-Ed piece, or the WFUM Radio segment The Upside Of Foreclosures, which has both a transcript and an audio stream. You can also visit the Powerhouse Project web site. Letâ(TM)s go, Detroit! With inspired thinking like this, maybe we can avoid the Bushvilles of Sacramento!

    On occasion recently Iâ(TM)ve missed the simple message of terror and paranoia served up on a regular basis by the Bush administration. At least you felt like you knew where things stood. Although I got a definite kick out of the Democratic Partyâ(TM)s brief dalliance with making Rush Limbaugh the new GOP leader, it ultimately just smacks of politics as usual, and as a friend of mine pointed out yesterday, a candidate isnâ(TM)t likely to get elected in this country unless theyâ(TM)re playing pretty nice with the existing (and frankly corrupt) Washington bureaucracy. All of which leaves me a little disillusioned; although my gut tells me that Barack Obama is a good man with good intentions, can those good intentions survive in the cesspool that is our nationâ(TM)s capitol (and guidance from a guy like Rahm Emanuel who offers parenting advice like this), or will Obama end up being another Jimmy Carter?

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  3. Re:Blacklist from wikileaks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Third and last part:

    Is he Irish? He mitre he might
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    I must confess, Iâ(TM)ve never really understood St Patrickâ(TM)s Day. According to Wikipedia, typical St. Patrickâ(TM)s day celebrations include: attending mass parades, wearing shamrocks, wearing green, and drinking alcohol. Which, except for the shamrocks, sounds like a cast and extras reunion for the movie Elf or something. Back when I DID drink, I certainly didnâ(TM)t need a holiday, and although I did dye my hair green once, it was really an accident. In the 80â(TM)s, you see, they hadnâ(TM)t perfected that whole blue hair dye thing yet. And parades? Please. It mostly strikes me as odd that an Irish religious holiday is mostly celebrated by hard-drinking atheists who arenâ(TM)t even Irish. So if youâ(TM)re Irish, go ahead, get your blarney on by kissing stones and whatnot. Well, maybe avoid THIS whatnot (NSFW).

    And if youâ(TM)re neither Irish nor religious, you might enjoy this secular jab at the holiday. Here at Dissociated Press, weâ(TM)ll be treating March 17 like so many other sacred days: as an opportunity to gratuitously link to Amazon product pages that never seem to make us any money. For those of you who are trying to be classy about the whole thing (and failing), we have this stylish St Patrickâ(TM)s Table Centerpiece. For those who have abandoned all pretension, read on. To compliment your Simulated Cleavage âoeIrish Missâ Vest Costume or your Adult St. Patrickâ(TM)s Day Sassy Leprechaun Costume, youâ(TM)re going to need a pimp, and theyâ(TM)re going to need a hat. For me it was a tough decision, but the St. Patrickâ(TM)s Green Boa Pimp Hat finally won out over the Shamrock Fur Trim Fuzzy Pimp Hat. And of course nothing says âoeIrishâ like âoealohaâ, right? Which is why we bring you the St. Patrickâ(TM)s Green And White Flower Lei And finally, proving that weâ(TM)re not the only blatantly opportunistic bastards around, we have the St. Patrickâ(TM)s Day 7 Inch Flashing Green Beacon Light. Which Iâ(TM)m pretty sure is just a green flashing light the other 364 days of the year.

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