Australia's Killing the Web: $11.000 a day for posting links
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@unknownuser said:
it’s hard to imagine the justification for steep fines for linking to sites the government hasn’t revealed are illegal...
There is a very basic legal principle (developing since about the 17th century "worldwide"): "nullum crimen sine lege" - i.e. "no crime without law" that would mean if the regulation (on which they base the fines) is not made public and accessible (that is an essential legal principle for a law to be in force), it is illegal to declare it as crime i.e. punish.
Sigh... we are going back to the Dark Middle Ages and Inquisition soon...
Edit: See some basic criminal law principles about it on Wikipedia here.
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Australia does seem to have some of the most backward internet related policies of the 'developed' world.
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I don't think a society that's busy watching reality TV, Facebooking itself and Twittering will be at all concerned!
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As more and more people wake up to whats really going on, then more controls like this will creep in under cover of 'Protecting The Public'.
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I doubt the Aussies will stand for it too long
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@gaieus said:
Sigh... we are going back to the Dark Middle Ages and Inquisition soon...
Sorry, Gaieus, your post was just asking for it...
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A bit of the old Fahrenheint 451 going on. Now I know why they refer to Australia as 'down under'.
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I think it's worth noting the tactics at play here. The internet is the last truly free medium for the masses and I think there is a good possibility it will be clamped down hard in the years to come. I think the elite must constantly monitor what goes on on the web and when and if they decide that there is more enlightening than distraction going on, they will impose a mountain of regulations upon it to shut it down as we know it. The internet is full of history, thinkers and declassified documents that can really shine some light into the dark and seedy agendas of certain men and really wake up many of those in the working class, which could eventually topple the pyramid. However, the internet is also riddled with back alley filth, social networking, gossip, sports, money scams and every other thing that keeps people distracted from the reality of their monetary enslavement and which only benefits those who are in the business of monitoring and manipulating social thinking. In this respect the internet just becomes an extension of the rabbit hole in which most people never find their way out of. So, in the short term, the internet is really fulfilling a much needed purpose for the elite and keeps a lot of people tethered to darkness, but as soon as there is a critical mass of people who find their way to the light, a crack down on free speech will be instantaneous. And it will be done under the guise of something that is unarguably bad, like racism or child pornography.
As far as this article....they are doing what they always do. Find an issue, such as child pornography, which no one would dare oppose, and use it to piggyback legislation that will further remove the freedom of the australian people. So it basically puts those who have the role of voting on such legislation, into a quandary that if they oppose such ridiculous legislation, then they appear to be coming out in favor for something such as child pornography, and no ones wants to be painted in that light. It's an underhanded tactic, but it's often a winning strategy in getting legislation passed that would normally be laughed off the floor.
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spiel overload
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serves them right.
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I had a look at that WikiLeak list - thank God, SketchUcation is not (yet) listed - at least as of that last August (?) list.
@unknownuser said:
...However, not all the sites are offensive, and include [...] YouTube videos, poker sites, WikiLeaks entries and even URLs to a Queensland dentist and dog-boarding kennel.
That dentist must have drilled someone in public (and I don't even want to imagine what those dogs were doing for breeding...) -
Very well-worded summary Adam, thanks
yeah, tends to happen. Keyboard diarrhea after caffeine overload.
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