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Can Linux be banned in .au?

Posted by Hemos on from the it's-time-to-apply-censorship dept.

cpt kangarooski writes "Well, an enterrising reporter over at Salon has found that certain blue comments in some Linux source code may make it eligible to be censored in Australia. Take a look here " Mmm...fun with censorship. Congrats go to Jamais Cascio (known as cynical around here), Slashdot reader, and author of the Salon article.

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  1. The List of Banned Words by Chakotay · · Score: 5

    it can be found here. they threw a dictionary through the filter... let me list a few of the more stunning ones...

    adult
    alcohol
    amaretto
    amateur
    anarchy
    anus
    aryan
    available
    babe
    banging
    bangle
    bare
    bastard
    beaver
    beer
    bikini
    binaries
    blonde
    bloody
    bomb
    bottom
    bra
    bud
    buxom
    chat
    cherry
    chicks
    cigar
    circumcise
    conception
    condom
    destined
    doom
    dynamite
    enema
    eros
    escort
    explosive
    fantasies
    fist
    flesh
    fondle
    free
    frigid
    geisha
    gin
    girlie
    girls
    glamour
    gothic
    grenade
    gun
    hack
    hacker
    heroine [no more female heros?]
    hole
    homo
    incest
    intercourse
    jenny [???]
    kill
    killer
    kissing
    klan
    klux
    knights [???]
    knives
    ku
    latex
    leather
    lesbian
    lingerie
    liquor
    lover

    well, you get the picture... it's f***ing outrageous.


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