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2010-09-04 Southeast Asia

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Posted by Fred 2010-09-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 I hope this doesn't affect Susan Loone's blog...

http://sloone.wordpress.com/

Posted by American Delight 2010-09-04 09:18|| http://moneyjihad.wordpress.com/ 2010-09-04 09:18|| Front Page Top

#2 "Causing confusion". Boy, does that sound like a euphemism for some nasty government oppression.

The first thought would be Christian sites, "because they are trying to proselytize Muslims."

But why limit it there? Opposition parties. Foreign criticism. The list is endless.

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-09-04 11:15|| 2010-09-04 11:15|| Front Page Top

#3 Guess one of the first they'll block is Rantburg....

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2010-09-04 18:43|| 2010-09-04 18:43|| Front Page Top

#4 The great wave of internet censorship has begun. We need a new internet.

Australia to its eternal shame was the first country to jump after China, using "child porn" as the excuse and the red herring to allow Big Brother Government to control what you see on the web.

Of the proposed-ban sites, 2/3 had nothing to do with porn at all.

One of them was Wikileaks.

You should not assume that Australis is as free as its reputation. It is not.

This country has no guarantee of freedom of speech in law or in the constitution.

Many limits are put on publishing

and when the Government wants to get rid of "hostile" (independent/tough) journalists they destroy them through the bureaucracy. They will make vexatious complaint through their workplaces and foster and feed stories to compliant "friendly" rival journos.

Or sue for defamation, that is a good way to destroy a struggling journo. Take their house and all their savings. They did it to the guy that started Crikey.com twice.

In 5 years there will be hardly a country without a Big Brother internet filter.

I'm serious - we need a new internet.

Posted by anon1 2010-09-04 22:49|| 2010-09-04 22:49|| Front Page Top

#5 Guess one of the first they'll block is Rantburg....

Speaking of which.
Lately in a small town semi-far away I tried to dial in to the burg, the library had banned it as "Pornography" after I talked fairly seriously to the somewhat unfriendly librarian, I can only conclude her brains were scooped out and concrete poured in.
Absolutely refused to even look and see.
LIBERAL MORON.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2010-09-04 23:50|| 2010-09-04 23:50|| Front Page Top

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