Sucks to be you guys.
When will they block IRE for graphical violence, what do you think? Well, Matt can make a comment about sheep this time.

That's...insane. My condolences for you all over in Oceania.

I can understand the campaign to ban things like child porn - although why they don't just get the people who own those websites arrested I don't know - especially since the pressure for it is so strong. But -anorexia-? How many people even care enough about pro-anorexia websites (which I've never heard of before in my life, and will now investigate out of curiosity - thanks censorship!) to want the government to get rid of them? Was there a voting box in an office about what to ban and someone put that in as a joke? What other weird stuff are they going to go after?

I bet Ash posted this just to annoy me further, he's taunting me over his clan, and now he does this on the boards.

I can already hear the calls from the people complaining about slow speeds should this thing ever go live.

Good night, sweet princess Halamir.

...They want to block access to hard-core material and child pornography, so they go after euthanasia and anorexia?

Yeah, that's the part I don't get.

Bets their next stop is music/torrent sites?

According to some sites, the software is not actually capable of blocking torrents. What we need is Obama to come and splain net neutrality to Rudd.

Yeah... good idea to ask an American politician to explain technology at all... poor Rudd will just be so fricken confused that he starts to poop server towers...

Apparently my angry calls to the minister did no good.

Obviously the solution is to appear in person.

The problem is that Rudd is too middle of the road. He's better than Howard became, but not as good as Howard was to start. He's very much behind the over 40's who believe that this is what is needed, and that everywhere is a den of filth and child pornography that is waiting to take their kids and make them into porn stars, and that bastard Stephen has been known to make comments about "Getting people into an active lifestyle" which has nothing to do with this, but my own paranoid visions make it so.

Edit: What's worse is that they might ban "controversial" sites. That story is the third time I've seen it mentioned. HALF THE INTERNET IS CONTROVERSIAL. IF I WANT TO STARVE MYSELF SLIM AND RETAIN MY GIRLISH FIGURE, I WILL. If I wnat to die peacefully, I will, even if laws prevent me from having my family members around BECAUSE YOU WILL PROSECUTE THEM. Jesus.

Hey, does New Zealand have any space? I hear it's pretty much open pasture and lots of moans and baaing.

Stay out of my country! I don't want Yrael running around in New Zealand.

NZ can't be that bad. They've got Bret, Jemaine, and hobbits.

Yrael is like herpes crossed with the black death.

Stephen Fielding is a *nasty* piece of work. I was shouting obscenities at him once and he started in on how I was going straight to hell and taking my entire family with me, blah blah blah, repent, etc. Loon.

I happened to see him on the street when I was down that way when he, like all politicians, was actually obligated to be in Canberra to earn his keep. I disagreed with a few of his policies and told him what I thought about them at the top of my lungs. I have a loud voice, and occasionally flip a switch that removes shame and brain to mouth filter. And it didn't start as shouting, it was heated discussion that progressed to shouting.

Happy?

Actually, yes. It's kind of funny to picture, anyway!

Canberra is a funny place. Frequent the nicer areas and you'll run into the strangest people. Never the prime minister or the opposition leader (Both are kept in a pit and fed a bucket of slops once a day, and both are fat enough that they can't run more than ten metres), but you'll recognise your local member or a senator. The only time I've ever had a conversation with a politico who wasn't Peter Andren.

Peter Andren for president of the US. Even though he is now dead.