As far as I could find out, the websites Australia's Justice Minister Chris Ellison wants to block are IndyMedia and unnamed anti-WTO websites. These websites are maintained and used by the "people of seattle", as they are called since the 1999 WTO summit in Seattle, where they demonstrated to draw public attention to the undemocatic ways of the Word Trade Organization and other problems with neo-liberalism.
The so-called anti-globalization movement got a bad reputation with some good citizens when riots broke out in Genoa. Today it is acknowledged fact that Italia's state police infiltrated hooligans or nazi skins into Genoa and equipped them with weapons such as baseball bats.
Meanwhile this movement has met in Florence, Italy, for no other reason that to hold a conference, the first European Social Forum, that was attended by 60,000 people. At the end of it, they were joined by trade unionists and ordinary Italian people for a demonstration of 500,000 people (according to police figures). During the conference and the mass demonstration no one was hurt, and not a single windows was smashed. (More in The Guardian.)
Berlusconi, Italia's leader, had previously predicted that there would surely be violence in Florence. He even tried to move the Social Forum to the coutryside. He has made a fool of himself.
Now Australia's Justice Minister is determined to do the same thing. Not only because blocking websites does not work. He's trying to use a false myth (anti-globalists are rioters) in order to censor political opposition. Also note how the dumb notion of cybercrime is extended into a nonsense notion by trying to create a cybercrime law that bans defamation, calls to protest, and independent analysis all at once from the web.
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Yea, but now the Justice Minister wants to change the law because he is not content with ABA's decision.
As far as I could find out, the websites Australia's Justice Minister Chris Ellison wants to block are IndyMedia and unnamed anti-WTO websites. These websites are maintained and used by the "people of seattle", as they are called since the 1999 WTO summit in Seattle, where they demonstrated to draw public attention to the undemocatic ways of the Word Trade Organization and other problems with neo-liberalism.
The so-called anti-globalization movement got a bad reputation with some good citizens when riots broke out in Genoa. Today it is acknowledged fact that Italia's state police infiltrated hooligans or nazi skins into Genoa and equipped them with weapons such as baseball bats.
Meanwhile this movement has met in Florence, Italy, for no other reason that to hold a conference, the first European Social Forum, that was attended by 60,000 people. At the end of it, they were joined by trade unionists and ordinary Italian people for a demonstration of 500,000 people (according to police figures). During the conference and the mass demonstration no one was hurt, and not a single windows was smashed. (More in The Guardian.)
Berlusconi, Italia's leader, had previously predicted that there would surely be violence in Florence. He even tried to move the Social Forum to the coutryside. He has made a fool of himself.
Now Australia's Justice Minister is determined to do the same thing. Not only because blocking websites does not work. He's trying to use a false myth (anti-globalists are rioters) in order to censor political opposition. Also note how the dumb notion of cybercrime is extended into a nonsense notion by trying to create a cybercrime law that bans defamation, calls to protest, and independent analysis all at once from the web.