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Re:Austrialia censors 90% of web censorship plan to avoid "u... by jlcgull on Friday July 23, 2010 @09:54PM (#1542885)
Australia, is turning into an e-Tibet ... Get ready for millions of innocent websites dying at the hands of OberFuhrer Robert McClelland.

Yeah, that statement may sound over-hyped today, but come talk to me a year after that thing gets signed into law.

Aussies have gone soft, in the balls (they were already soft in the head -- which was the only good thing keeping democracy alive in Australia until now).

edit: an attempt at preventing godwin's law invocation and a visit from the anti-defamation league. ;-)

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Re:Austrialia censors 90% of web censorship plan to avoid "u... by catch23 on Friday July 23, 2010 @10:06PM (#1542898)
... or China! Google will have to create an offshore website in New Zealand for uncensored search results.
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Re:Austrialia censors 90% of web censorship plan to avoid "u... by tkahn6 on Friday July 23, 2010 @11:08PM (#1542999)
I think you will understand how offensive and unnecessary your first statement is after looking at this photo: http://www.hollow-hill.com/sabina/images/auschwitz-corpses.j...
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Re:Austrialia censors 90% of web censorship plan to avoid "u... by lkjhgbvbhnjmk on Friday July 23, 2010 @11:16PM (#1543013)
Yes Australians had the decency to slowly wipe out the indigenous people out of sight over a century rather than being all teutonic and efficient about it.
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Re:Austrialia censors 90% of web censorship plan to avoid "u... by phob on Saturday July 24, 2010 @09:56PM (#1544789)
Yes, Americans had the decency to slowly wipe out the indigenous people...
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Re:Austrialia censors 90% of web censorship plan to avoid "u... by jlcgull on Friday July 23, 2010 @11:22PM (#1543023)
What a troll you are! Oh! Yes! You are!
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Re:Austrialia censors 90% of web censorship plan to avoid "u... by jlcgull on Friday July 23, 2010 @11:16PM (#1543011)
I think you will understand how analogy works by watching this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-fI3KEgy6c

edited to add: Beware, for history repeats itself. Just because heinous crimes were documented in the past is no guarantee that they will not be repeated by spineless authoritarians.

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Re:Austrialia censors 90% of web censorship plan to avoid "u... by tkahn6 on Friday July 23, 2010 @11:26PM (#1543027)
Ah, I seem to have given you more credit than you deserve. I watched the video but it's not related to any part of this discussion.

Just because an analogy has been made does not make it a good one.

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Re:Austrialia censors 90% of web censorship plan to avoid "u... by jlcgull on Friday July 23, 2010 @11:31PM (#1543036)
The only relevant reply, unfortunately, was not even in reply to my OP !!!

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1543020

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