Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Posted on 02/01/2010 5:10:58 PM PST by naturalman1975
SOUTH Australia has become one of the few states in the world to censor the internet.
The new law, which came into force on January 6, requires anyone making an online comment about next month's state election to publish their real name and postcode.
The law will affect anyone posting a comment on an election story on The Advertiser's AdelaideNow website, as well as other Australian news sites.
It could also apply to election comment made on social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter.
The law, which was pushed through last year as part of a raft of amendments to the Electoral Act and supported by the Liberal Party, also requires media organisations to keep a person's real name and full address on file for six months, and they face fines of $5000 if they do not hand over this information to the Electoral Commissioner.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...
Well, why don’t we just discuss this election?
Bruno: Ooh! Ah, that’s it. I’m going to report this to me member of parliament.[yells out window] Hey, Gus! I got something to report to you.
[Gus tends his swine]
Gus: That’s a bloody outrage, it is! I want to take this all the way to the Prime Minister.
[they go down to a lake]
Hey! Mr. Prime Minister! Andy!
Andy: [floating naked on an inner tube with a beer] Eh, mates! What’s the good word?
Is this one of those “coming to a country near you soon” moments? ;-)
What about people who will spraypaint there comments on the walls?
Since Australia is hanging upside down from the bottom of the earth, everything is backwards there. Liberals are the more right wing party.
Nice to see a country keep the original meaning of liberal associated with freedom, as opposed to the US where FDR bastardized the term to mean "not quite as authoritarian as Stalin, Hitler and Mussolini".
You are right about FDR but the article sounds like the Aussie libs in question are not the good guys.
“Anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the majority.” McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Common, 514 U.S. 334, 357 (1995). (’course this is U.S. law, not Australian)
The Liberals supported this legislation. As a South Australian I won’t be voting for either of these scumbag parties.
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