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Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange Has Passport Confiscated

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the no-more-colbert-for-you dept.

Taco Cowboy writes "The Australian founder of the whistleblower website Wikileaks had his passport confiscated by police when he arrived in Melbourne last week. While Assange has made himself particularly unpopular with the US military by publishing video of attacks on civilians in Iraq, he's been something of a thorn in the side for the Australian government too. Last year, Wikileaks published a list of websites which were to be banned under the government's proposed Internet filter. While the aim of the filter is to block extreme pornography and the like, the blacklist included a number of more prosaic sites such as those of a travel company and a dentist.

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  1. Absolute power by Yvan256 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

    1. Re:Absolute power by nacturation · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      Girl power corrupts girly.

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  2. Re:For a Whole Fifteen Minutes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Coincidentally in the CA to the south of you, we also have a 99 which is a departure from I5 :D

    It's an in-state highway running from just south of the border (where it dead-ends into I5) to just north of the border (where it also dead ends into I5).

    Just an amusing bit of trivia there from one CA to the other :) (Coincidentally I wonder if that's where the 99 came from.)