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Posts tonen met het label Australia. Alle posts tonen

zaterdag 21 maart 2009

Australia's Vast, Scattershot Censorship Blacklist Revealed

The blacklists were reportedly leaked by a Web filter operator to wikileaks which has published the full list of banned URLs. Outraged privacy advocates say the government has effectively lied about the amount of URLs included in the blacklists, totaling more than 2300, and the type of content which it would ban. The leak follows a series of attacks on the watchdog in which irate users successfully lobbied for web sites to be banned, only to be threatened with an $11,000 fine for publishing the link contained in the PR response. It was also revealed the watchdog can ban Web sites at a whim, with no accountability."

Lees bij Slashdot. Wikileaks is down door enorme belangstelling (niet klikken dus). Maandag weer up.

maandag 9 februari 2009

Tuurlijk...de terreur-bosbrand!

Je kon er op wachten, natuurlijk. De enorme bosbranden in Australië, waarbij inmiddels maar liefst 170 mensen zijn omgekomen, alsmede zeer veel dieren, zijn, jawel, het gevolg van een islamitische jihad...(gelukkig is daar meteen een Australische minister die wel even "anti-terreurmaatregelen" staat te verdedigen terwijl zijn landgenoten verbranden).

I hope the Aussies won't buy this bullshit.

Zie ook "Operation Gladio Australia?"

zaterdag 13 december 2008

Australische isp's weigeren webfilter

Ik dacht even dat de Australische providers, net als in Nederland XS4All, in verzet zouden komen tegen de steeds verdergaande big brother-achtige privacyschendingen in de "vrije wereld."

Maar:


Kiezen voor geen filter is daarbij geen optie, omdat internetproviders volgens de plannen schone internetdiensten moeten kunnen bieden. Internetproviders verzetten zich echter massaal tegen dit plan, omdat het in hun ogen onmogelijk is om een waterdicht systeem te ontwikkelen en een dergelijk systeem daarbij de snelheid van internet aanzienlijk nadelig zou beïnvloeden. Webwereld

De heren en dames vinden het dus vooral een "technisch probleem." Bummer...

zondag 2 november 2008

Brandbommen in Ternate

JAKARTA - In Ternate, de hoofdstad van de Indonesische Noord-Molukken, hebben maandagochtend rond half vier (lokale tijd) drie bomexplosies plaatsgevonden. Dat meldden lokale media.

Lees verder op nu.nl

Alvast een passende sfeer scheppen?

donderdag 16 oktober 2008

Australische regering maakt werk van internetcensuur

Australians will be unable to opt-out of the government's pending Internet content filtering scheme, and will instead be placed on a watered-down blacklist, experts say.

Lees meer op Computerworld

woensdag 16 april 2008

Key terrorist trial witness 'talked to birds'

A key witness in the Melbourne trial of 12 alleged terrorists had a history of hearing voices in his head and claimed to communicate with birds, the Supreme Court has heard.


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dinsdag 4 september 2007

The Great Wall of Sydney

Outdoor political activity is clearly a weapon not to be given away lightly.

Anatole Kagan is 93 and understands this. He told me a week ago that he wants to march on Saturday, September 8. He's going blind but says he can see what "Howard and the authorities" are up to; his wife Dawn reads him the newspapers and his favourite blogs in the morning and he listens to the radio and television. There's no way he is going to be frightened away by talk of terrorism, police searches, water cannon, robocops, emptied prisons, and mobile holding cells.

"The real terrorists are going to be on the other side of the wall," he says. Anatole is a life member of the Labor Party, an old Trotskyist whose father was a St Petersburg Menshevik, expelled with his whole family from the new Soviet republic in 1922. The family settled in Berlin where Anatole's father set up as a publisher – Trotsky and Freud were two of his authors. During his teenage years, Anatole witnessed the rise of the Nazis and left Berlin forever after Kristalnacht in 1938.

Full story on HPD