The End of Oz Stoners?

[Harry Imago]

Who gets to decide what gets filtered. This started with words and festivals and frankly the worlds a worse place for it. When will religious sites be blocked for fear of offending someone somewhere? Haven't all the governments and companies and relationships in the world worked out that transparency is the way to go. No dark corners to hide in. Certainly there is a time and a place for internet security, and as users we should be aware of the rights and responsibilities that come with being here. It won't be the end of OS, ways and means exist to continue. Perhaps it may look and feel different and maybe some old mates wont come along but what you see now in front of you is merely an illusion, a picture your brain established from the information given.

 

The real impact of this legislation is that it will drive many legitimate, honest, hard-working tax paying citizens to look for illegitimate ways of gaining the valuable information this site and many others offer. Unfortunately commercial marijuana seems to attract seedy desperate people (at its lower levels). Why should everyday mums and dads whom are exposed to senseless fear generating violence everyday on the television, have to then drive out to some god-forsaken place in the middle of the night to pick up god knows what quality herb, from some scab ridden leering moron. I despise going out for commercial herb, just to be able to really laugh at South Park. I know that I should enjoy it without a whip or two but its like Steak and Chips they just go together. Well if this is the end of this incarnation I'll catch ya'll in the next

 

Harry

 

PS to cheer you up and prove that a higher existence is with us I post a photo of my new lawn. I turned over my vegetable patch and planted grass seed. God, Allah, Jehovah, The Universal Mind, whom ever you believe in planted the 'seed of life'.

[lightning]

harry are ya gunna mow or let it grow?

[Major Overgrow]

Update:

 

Despite my several emails to this crowd explaining the facts of they matter they are persisting with their campaign of BS and misinformation, here are some highlights for your amusement.

 

"The internet has become a cesspool of child and adult porn.

Kids and women are degraded, violence is glorified and no one is safe from having this rot thrust in their face, even by accident.

 

The Australian Christian Lobby is glad the Government is moving to protect kids and women through mandatory filtering...

 

Sections of the internet industry and the porn lobby are opposed because ISP filtering threatens the money they can make through the trade in exploiting women and the lucrative download of pornography, including child porn.

 

Claims that Australia is becoming like China and that the net will be censored for political and religious comment are ridiculous given our robust democracy.

It is appropriate at times for Governments to limit freedoms.........

 

Sure, trials so far have shown a slight reduction in internet speed as a result of the filters, but technology is rapidly developing. Even if there was a small drop in speed it is a small price to pay to protect kids and to thwart feeding the perverse appetites of paedophiles."

 

From: URL=http://www.makeastand.org.au/campaign/index.stw?campaign_id=21

 

Fortunately though on the same page they made it really easy to contact your local pollies about this, just put in your post code, select a pollie, send, rinse and repeat for each pollie on the list, you only have to type your message once! How cool is that?

 

The really cool part though is you can check the box that says 'CC a copy to ACL' mwahahahaahaaaa.

 

So now we can kill 2 birds with one stone. If you care about this issue, follow the link and shoot off some emails cos these dangerous nubs are continuing to spread this BS to thousands of gullible Christians all over the web.

 

Beware of fascism with Jesus' clothes on.

 

cool

Check out the PIC top-right of their page - They want to ban KYLIE from the internet (& probably from TV)

URL=http://www.makeastand.org.au/campaign/index.stw?campaign_id=21

:::: "[ Make a Stand reserves the right to withdraw emails that are inappropriate, subversive, offensive or sent with mischievous intent ]"

TRANSLATION:::: They censor your eMails to politicians (maybe they even edit them... wouldn't surprise me at all)

Edited November 24, 2008 by Major Overgrow

[lightning]

The International Convention on Civil and Political Rights to which Australia is a signatory states:-

 

Article 17

1. No one shall be subjected to arbitrary or unlawful interference with his privacy, family, home or

correspondence, nor to unlawful attacks on his honour and reputation.

2. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.

 

Article 19

1. Everyone shall have the right to hold opinions without interference.

2. Everyone shall have the right to freedom of expression; this right shall include freedom to seek,

receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds, regardless of frontiers, either orally, in writing

or in print, in the form of art, or through any other media of his choice.

3. The exercise of the rights provided for in paragraph 2 of this article carries with it special duties

and responsibilities. It may therefore be subject to certain restrictions, but these shall only be such

as are provided by law and are necessary:

(a) For respect of the rights or reputations of others;

( For the protection of national security or of public order (ordre public), or of public

health or morals.

 

So is a compulsory filter based on a bigoted religious viewpoint imposed on all citizens valid under international law? Or is it a breach of human rights?

[Nooby]

Hey lightning,

 

Nice quote dude. I wonder I can bring those articles to the attention of the Queensland govt. who is stopping me from buying Stickypoint magazine, The Emperor Wears no Clothes and other such verboten material?

[lightning]

Nooby, I personally feel it is wrong to suppress information at any time, for any reason.

Suppression of information is tyranny, all people should be free at all times to express their beliefs/ideas/understandings/knowledge whether popular or not as long as they do not insight hatred or violence towards others in the process.

 

Bible Hosea 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.

Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you

 

A decision informed by truth and knowledge is usually the best one.

[Nooby]

..couldn't have said it better myself. ;-)

[Nooby]

Brilliant

 

 

 

(PS how do you embed youtube vids around here? )

Edited November 25, 2008 by Nooby

[lightning]

Gem nooby LMAO

needed a cheer up this morning, ta for that

[mull]

Brilliant