Garak, it's retarded. I posted somewhere else here too, but I was uploading pics that make fun of Obama on Photobucket and they removed them. What's so bad about them? I mean, I uploaded a picture of a nude girl and it remained more on the site(a couple of weeks more) and the latter violates the conditions while the former doesn't.

Freedom of speech is a myth nowadays. Look at Sweden. After the rape epidemics of the immigrants, some guy said that he is tired of seeing the native women of his country get raped by immigrant hordes. He got a few months in jail for saying that. Hate speech laws are a fraud.

Blocking uncomfortable information from reaching the masses is classic socialism. I'm not sure how much of the net Obama could actually 'unplug' though. This is why it's important for networks to remain as autonomous as possible.

Capitulating to government demands for cooperation under the guise of preventing terrorism is a convenient means to filter and control what they deem politically acceptable or not. The net is the last vestige of free speech, and once surrendered there's nothing remotely comparable to replace it.

I'm not sure how much of the net Obama could actually 'unplug' though.

All of it (in the US).

We all get our internet service from private companies, he just has to make the companies disrupt service.

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All of it (in the US).

We all get our internet service from private companies, he just has to make the companies disrupt service.

It doesn't sound any different then what China's citizens are subject too.

With all the technology and resources the US have, surely they can 'localize' whatever is deemed a substantial threat, and deal with it without resorting to such drastic measures. I'm not buying into it being necessary to ensure national security is protected.

Boring! Too yesterday's news.

The have had the whole world tapped up for years.

I'm not buying into it being necessary to ensure national security is protected.

It's not about national security anymore than the Patriot Act was, it's about limiting information flow. The internet is replacing the media because of the ability for unfiltered news. The government probably sees that as a threat.

It's not about national security, it's about the governments security from the terrorists known as "We The People".

I believe they are setting the stage for martial law and complete government takeover of the people.

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It's not about national security, it's about the governments security from the terrorists known as "We The People".

Yep, the greatest threat to any despotic government is it's people. It is those citizens who seek to confront such a tyranny who become the terrorist in the minds of the tyrannical.

Recently with the G20 summit in London, British police enacted terrorist laws to detain numerous protestors with genuine grievances who clearly had no terroristic intentions. Expect the misuse of such laws to become more prevalent on both sides of the atlantic, as increasingly the police become political tools of the state.

Is this real? i thought other websites have dismissed it as an april fools joke.

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Is this real? i thought other websites have dismissed it as an april fools joke.

Now that you said this, I don't know. What sites have said it was an April Fools Joke?

The Australian Government under Chairman Mousey Kev, has announced its intention of a 'cybernet border' whereby all internet communication into Oz will be vetted for content before being allowed in.

It has started by announcing a list of some 2000-odd sites that will not be 'allowed entry'. They will be blocked at the recipient (landfall) ISP. While the targetted sites are supposed to be 'child pornography' the list includes some quite innocuous ones concerning birth and child-rearing. The excuse of 'child porn' is simply the thin edge of the wedge. The thicker end could include anything at all that the Wise Leader chooses.

Chairman Kev, a fluent Mandarin speaker who finds difficulty in expressing himself in plain English, is a nasty little man who has been described as a roving ambassador for China. He gets his ideas from China as well as his praise. China, of course, has some experience in blocking the internet.

The Great Leader Kev recently berated an RAAF air hostess on a VIP flight for serving him the 'wrong' sandwich, leaving her in tears. That's a thin edge too. I expect to see such recalcitrant stewardesses sent for 'retraining' to some outback station in the Northern territory soon where the internet is only on between 2 and 4 in the afternoon when there isn't a monsoon blowing. There or my mountain where we don't get friggin' broadband and porn takes ages to download. Here it takes a good five minutes to get a snap of a rude girl with no clothes on and she usually arrives shivering.

It is often the case, when you wait, that sympathy can overcome purience.

Mind you, there is enough waiting time to make a 'right' sandwich.

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The Australian Government under Chairman Mousey Kev, has announced its intention of a 'cybernet border' whereby all internet communication into Oz will be vetted for content before being allowed in.

It has started by announcing a list of some 2000-odd sites that will not be 'allowed entry'. They will be blocked at the recipient (landfall) ISP. While the targetted sites are supposed to be 'child pornography' the list includes some quite innocuous ones concerning birth and child-rearing. The excuse of 'child porn' is simply the thin edge of the wedge. The thicker end could include anything at all that the Wise Leader chooses.

Chairman Kev, a fluent Mandarin speaker who finds difficulty in expressing himself in plain English, is a nasty little man who has been described as a roving ambassador for China. He gets his ideas from China as well as his praise. China, of course, has some experience in blocking the internet.

The Great Leader Kev recently berated an RAAF air hostess on a VIP flight for serving him the 'wrong' sandwich, leaving her in tears. That's a thin edge too. I expect to see such recalcitrant stewardesses sent for 'retraining' to some outback station in the Northern territory soon where the internet is only on between 2 and 4 in the afternoon when there isn't a monsoon blowing. There or my mountain where we don't get friggin' broadband and porn takes ages to download. Here it takes a good five minutes to get a snap of a rude girl with no clothes on and she usually arrives shivering.

It is often the case, when you wait, that sympathy can overcome purience.

Mind you, there is enough waiting time to make a 'right' sandwich.

did not our great Gough of yore go to Moscow for indocrination

I hear they address each other as "comrade: at labor meetings

what ever Labor touches ends up before the receivers in an insolvency collapse

Ahh, Gough.

For the furn furriners out there. Gough Whitlam was the Prime Minister who hated Britain with a vengence. He appointed a Governor General here, an Australian, a Labor 'maaate', who promptly sacked him for being a tall, patrician, theiving git with his hands in an Egyptian pick-pocket's pocket, looking for a back-alley loan to prop up his overspent budget.