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  dorpus, 24 Jun 2005 @ 9:50am

  
  

  Suicide Nation

  A few days ago, Horiemon (a flamboyant Japanese media entrepreneur with fame comparable to Bill Gates or Jeff Bezos) put up a picture on his blog of himself cutting his own wrist. He wrote a weird page-long poem about growing up hating the world and cutting his wrist hundreds of times. The entry was removed from the front page a few hours later, but the page was still accessible for a day afterwards.
  
  But yeah, if other nations ban topical matter, then it's booming business for small countries like Tuvalu or Nauru. Most Japanese hard-core porn is hosted on servers in those countries.
  
  

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    Anonymous Coward, 25 Jun 2005 @ 11:07pm

    
    

    Re: Suicide Nation

    Now dorpus, when the topic is ABOUT suicide, horrible deaths, etc. (like now), it's okay to post related japanese news to techdirt, as it's actually relevant to the topic. We (the other techdirt readers) mostly get pissed at you because you lack the common sense to know when it's a good time to post that crap. C'mon you’re an educated man, and should have more sense than that. Dorpus, please stop acting like a total douche by posting off-topic, and start posting relevant replies to techdirt. Thank you.

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    TuvaDude, 27 Jun 2005 @ 5:32pm

    
    

    Re: Suicide Nation

    The Japanese porn is not hosted "in" Tuvalu or Nauru, those countries certainly don't have the bandwidth. They sell there domains worldwide so the websites could be anywhere, most like at home in Japan.

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  Pete Austin, 24 Jun 2005 @ 10:38am

  
  

  Will Sports Results be illegal?

  "Proposed subsection 474.29A(1) will make it an offence for a person to use a carriage service to access, transmit to themself, transmit generally, make available, or publish or otherwise distribute material that ... incites suicide"
  Parliament of Australia
  
  "Something is seriously out of joint in the Australian cricket team, which endured perhaps its darkest day in the Welsh capital of Cardiff on Saturday. Losses to England in a Twenty20 match and Somerset in a county game were one thing, but the five-wicket loss to Bangladesh, nominally the world's worst one-day cricket team, invited a different scale of embarrassment altogether."
  The Age (Australia)

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  knight37, 24 Jun 2005 @ 2:02pm

  
  

  Suicide Sites

  I'm not getting what's wrong with making it illegal for people to post web sites ENCOURAGING suicide. This law isn't about blocking sites that are suicide prevention sites, it's a law to get rid of sites that say "go ahead, just end it, here's how."
  
  Of couse, since you can't really ban anything effectively on the internet, it's pretty much a useless law. These twisted freaks of hell that put up such sites will just move them somewhere outside of Australia's jurisdiction.

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    Simon, 24 Jun 2005 @ 5:45pm

    
    

    Re: Suicide Sites

    My thoughts too.
    
    Isn't there also an argument that publicity about suicides tends to incite copycats, which is why media coverage of suicide tends to be very minimal?
    
    (I'm not sure how accurate the publicity-suicide link is, does anyone know?).

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  Anonymous Coward, 24 Jun 2005 @ 5:49pm

  
  

  What?

  Millions of pages of banal rubbish don't make you feel depressed?
  

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  Cheapskate, 24 Jun 2005 @ 6:08pm

  
  

  OMFG

  i just got done reading the comments over at slashdot.org now i want to kill myself, j/k :^P

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  Debbie, 3 Nov 2005 @ 8:54am

  
  

  suicide sites

  The fact that Australia has put an outright ban on websites at least shows they are acknowledging a growing problem. The regulation of cyberspace means that many territorial laws in fact have very little effect through access to websites on different servers worldwide. A positive step by the australian governement may encourage countries worldwide to invest more time in monitoring chat rooms etc and finally acknowledge a global agreement regarding regulation and enforcement is the only feasible way to solve another problem presented by the lawlessness of cyberspace.

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