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Article #8Re: Protest Internet/Media Censorship
From: David Addinall
Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 00:00
Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 00:00
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"Jim (from Oz)" wrote: > On Sat, 29 May 1999 16:48:48 +0800, David Addinall > <addinall@southwest.com.au> wrote: > snip > > >Pleasure, but could I just remind you all that 10s of 1000s of Shooters had a > >similar > >rally in Brisbane a couple of years ago and the response from the guvmint was > >"get fucked, you have no rights" and a willingness to spend half a billion > >dollars 'banning' something to 'protect the kiddies'. Starting to sound > >familiar yet? A few of us in here predicted the net would come > >under attack next and many were labelled 'conspiracy nuts'. Well, the > >day has arrived - here we go for another round of chucking money at > >smokescreens and ignoring the real problems. > snip > > Not to mention the 100,000+ of us who marched on the streets of > Melbourne at that time too Mark. Like you, I also said the net will be > next and I _am_ going to say I told you so! Trouble is most of the > people on these sorts of NGs are a bit PC and to most PCers > Guns = Bad. You didn't support us, and now you are starting to > pay the price. > > What will be banned next, I wonder? Will anyone care? Part of the > reason I move to Oz (from the UK) was because of the government > secrecy and control there - is it time to move on again? Me too. I left pommieland to escape a nanny state built to control 66 million dumb downed people running out of resources. Now with Australia being run by the bunch of dishonest fucks that inhabit canberra it may be time for another shift. Mark. > > > Jim (from Oz)
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fd95d,24ab4626b7bc902d X-Google-Attributes: gidfd95d,public X-Google-Thread: 1622b3,24ab4626b7bc902d X-Google-Attributes: gid1622b3,public X-Google-Thread: 1046d5,24ab4626b7bc902d X-Google-Attributes: gid1046d5,public X-Google-Thread: 10df0c,aaade8f7594954b7 X-Google-Attributes: gid10df0c,public X-Google-Thread: 10b91a,24ab4626b7bc902d X-Google-Attributes: gid10b91a,public X-Google-Thread: 14bc45,24ab4626b7bc902d X-Google-Attributes: gid14bc45,public From: David Addinall <addinall@southwest.com.au> Subject: Re: Protest Internet/Media Censorship Date: 1999/05/30 Message-ID: <3750E688.71DE41A7@southwest.com.au> X-Deja-AN: 483681638 Cache-Post-Path: karri.southwest.com.au!unknown@jarrah-24.southwest.com.au Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <7iaqh2$51p$1@bunyip.cc.uq.edu.au> <374FA9F0.4871BE48@southwest.com.au> <3750a88b.20799975@news0.optus.net.au> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@omen.net.au X-Trace: demeter.omen.net.au 928048762 14542 203.16.9.20 (30 May 1999 07:19:22 GMT) Organization: SouthWest Internet Systems X-Cache: nntpcache 2.3.2.1 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) Mime-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: 30 May 1999 07:19:22 GMT Newsgroups: uq.general,uq.csee.general,uq.csee.announce,aus.censorship,alt.censorship,aus.politics