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Aussie government shows its censorship teeth
ANY DOUBTS that the Austrialian regime will abuse its powers to censor the Internet have been laid to rest after the government ordered the take-down of an anti-censorship campaign website.
Anti-censorship campaigners bought the domain name stephenconroy.com.au and were starting to use it to attack the Australian government's plan to remove everything from the web that would offend Christian voters.
Conroy's clowns contacted the auDA, which is supposed to be an independent body that polices the "au" domain name. The body usually gives spammers and cyber squatters seven days to deal with any arguments over the rights Stephen Conroy names, however for some reason it gave the Stephen Conroy anti-censorship campaign only three hours to provide evidence of its eligibility to the name.
When the campaigners asked for reasonable time to prepare and make representations on its eligibility the auDA refused to grant this. In the end the campaigners said that they provide a consultancy product with 'Stephen Conroy' in it's name. This was a pretty lame excuse but the campaigners felt it would buy them some time.
On its website the campaign complained that the auDA didn't want to know and had decided to pull its registration regardless of what it did or said.
The organisers could not get the appropriate advice and representation in the manifestly inadequate time before auDA pulled the domain, sending the site off-line. It has temporarily moved to stephen-conroy.com while it seeks to assess and respond to auDA's actions.
The campaigners now have some fairly heavy legal advice including from the Electronic Frontier Foundation so it looks like the auDA is heading for a very embarrassing legal fight.
"We've received widespread support and messages of condemnation aimed at auDA for their actions, which seem to have been rightly interpreted as a manifestly political move," the group said.
The site sums up the situation with a version of the Hitler Bunker video, which unfortunately invokes Godwin's Law but what the hell.
While most of the rest of the world does not think it really matters if Australia censors its citizens, what is going on down-under is being closely watched by other western governments.
Since the days of the Roman Republic it has been instinctive for governments to censor to control public access to information and opinions in order to control behaviour. So if the Rudd administration gets its system into place and manages to survive the election then chances are that other countries will follow.
Conway has used the idea of protecting children from paedophiles as the reason to clamp down on the flow of Internet information. However lists of what will be banned under the glorious Aussie regime include lots of other things that governments don't want talked about.
If the anti-censorship campaigners are right, and Conway is using bodies like the auDA to silence those who are critical of his policies, then Australians and the whole of the western world should be very afraid of where Internet censorship will lead us. µ
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This is typical reaction of the panty wearing,religious majority that will never be far from power. All I can say is Fuck You....Don't vote next election and claim religious beliefs stopped you. I am all for killing off the pedophiles and the weirdo's but lets try starting in our own Governments and churches first. Christ there are just as many wankers there as there are in the real world. And if that doesn't work then close your internet account I'm sure that will get a reaction.
Bring back good old fashion rebellion we have become to apathetic... get off your arse's and FIGHT
Too right.
Unfortunately, as you pointed out, this thing is pretty much guaranteed.
Our only hope, as Nick pointed out, is for it to be rejected by the Liberal senate.
The Liberal Party itself is in turmoil because they just got a new leader. The old one was voted out a few weeks back by only a few votes. So now it's internally split too.
It doesn't help that the Liberal leader has been making controversial comments like "All students should be taught religion and read the bible"...
And now we wait...
They hate both of those things. And get yourselves some calm, clever spokespeople with proper clout.
A) It will never pass the Senate.
2) I have signed up to become a founding member of the Pirate Party of Australia.
Here in Australia, we really only have two governments to vote for (God bless the illusion of Democracy). We have the Labour goverment (current), who showers us with candy and distracting us while burning bridges and road behind us. Then we have the Liberal government, who just burns everything in the name of making money and doesn't even try to hide the fact.
The current problem is the Liberal party had a massive overhaul and WILL not get in next election no matter WHAT. Which means Labour will remain in Government due to the lack of any alternative and will use it as an excuse to push forward with censorship. The Liberal government did it several years ago with IR laws.
Democracy is an illusion, our government is purely capitalism.
Australian Internet WILL be censored, and there isn't a damn thing anyone can do about it.
It would appear that Mr. Rudd and
his Ministers have decided that the
Australian People need to have not only
a taste of Fascism but have their faces rubbed in it also.
I'm glad to see that,it's not only Pom's
that have a 'government' with a pedigree of BASTARDS running the country.
Stick two fingers up to the STASI swine Cobbers & hope it's LBW for them before your all out.
methinks the aussie government has something to hide.
if they had a decent plausible argument then surely it would stand up to criticism?
theyre probably just as backward as the uk ones....
it's obvious that conroy, along with this government (as with the last), want TOTAL control over every aspect of their citizens lives.
not that they give a damn about climate change, dying rivers, corporate corruption, not to mention government corruption, all they want is to put more red tape where there isn't any, or a need for any.....
it's getting close to up against the wall time....