The courts here in Australia have told them to knock it off, so we'll see, I suppose. The arrogance of that guy is breathtaking. What a self entitled shit he is.
Bruce Springsteen freely admits that he stole, borrowed, whatever, the riff for Badlands from The Animals. Artists and musicians do that constantly. It's called inspiration.
Murdoch: Scotty, I fucked up/ignored the Internet/don't understand how it works. I'm a totally clueless fossil who just wants even more money. Please Scotty, make them pay for linking to my shitty right wing websites.
Our Idiot in Chief, aka Scotty from Marketing, has been talking to Microsoft about Bing filling the Google gap, if and when Google stops providing search here. Great, a Microsoft monopoly on search! What could possibly go wrong with that?
The Greens have even proposed a publicly funded search engine. Good grief. Imagine all the vested interests demanding that certain search terms be barred, etc. but that's the level of competency most of our politicians have.
If the proposed code goes ahead, with its insistence that Google provide 28 days notice of any upcoming algorithmic changes, then I wouldn't blame Google one bit for blocking search in Australia. 28 days notice! Talk about fucking up a business.
The hollow men of the Liberals always bang on about free market forces and all that crap. It seems they're more than willing to give that idea up to look after Rupert and his cronies. The level of hypocrisy is staggering, to say the least.
It's maddening from both perspectives really. I am certainly no fan of the Murdoch press or Murdoch himself. He owns 70% of the news media here, so we get a lot of crap from his right wing rags and TV commentators. I'm also no fan of Facebook or Google.
To me, the argument boils down to a company, albeit a very large one, having to pay news organisations merely for linking to them, which goes against the whole spirit of the Internet.
Even Tim Berners Lee has said it will break the WWW. If Google et al are forced to pay for links, how deep does the wedge then go?
Technologically clueless politicians, beholden to Murdoch, break the Internet for an entire population just so they can stay in his good books.
But the warrant gave the AFP the power to copy, delete and modify files on its computers. That is a massive over reach and sets off all kinds of alarm bells. What next, planting files on people's computers? This is very dangerous stuff. The so called "prime minister" just shrugged it off and said "talk to the AFP". Law enforcement doing the government's bidding. Gee, that's always ended so well in the past.
To echo Damien, yeah, fuck off.
If I run a blog or website here and I ever got a take down notice from the EU I'd probably laugh my self silly, keep calm and carry on regardless.
What a bunch of maroons.
The Herald Sun had a front page here that said, and I'm paraphrasing, CENSORED, THE BIGGEST STORY WE'RE NOT ALLOWED TO REPORT.
We all sussed what is was anyway, because of previous and well known publicity about the charges against Pell.
So we just went to overseas media outlets to read the story.
This abuse and covering it up has been an ongoing issue for literally decades , but we apparently have no right to hear about an important trial because it might "scandalise the court". Fuck off.
What has scandalised Australian society all these years is the criminal abuse of innocent children by the catholic church and its systematic cover ups by that same organisation.
Persecuting journalists and media outlets for having the temerity to complain that they can't report about something, even when they don't mention that something by name, would set an incredibly dangerous precedent.
The law should drag its arse into the 21st century.
Also, this idiot government is conducting the biggest industrial experiment in our history. They get to make business decisions for companies, saying "we want you to put this in your product".
Prime Minister Scott Morrison, un-elected king of the muppets. A bunch of technologically illiterate morons sound the klaxon call of the four horsemen of the apocalypse; pedophiles, terrorists, drug dealers and criminals (I would have have thought they all fall under the heading of criminals, but no matter).
Then the legislation needs to be passed "to keep us all safe over Christmas/New Year". What a steaming pile of merde. No one is going to actively back door their hardware or software in the next 2 weeks. Ain't gonna happen.
Do I really need to go on?
It'll break the Internet, maybe not tomorrow or next week, but it wiil.
The current government here is a bunch of dysfunctional morons. They want to bust encryption wide open because we are now all terrorist suspects and they are in total thrall of big business. This is just business as usual for these technologically ignorant idiots.
For those who don't live here, we are fast becoming a police state. This bullshit plus a notably racist speech in the senate yesterday plus a generally apathetic public equals a country heading into some very dark times.
The ABC is not the government's media arm. It is a publically funded media organisation that is often critical of the government of the day, of whatever political stripe. In recent years the current government has stripped something like $300 million from its funding. Yes, this government is a bunch of batards.
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I blame the mouse and keyboard manufacturers. How dare they offer right clicks and function keys so that you can view source code! Bastards!
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The courts here in Australia have told them to knock it off, so we'll see, I suppose. The arrogance of that guy is breathtaking. What a self entitled shit he is.
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Yeah, those poor, struggling record companies....ba ha.
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Bruce Springsteen freely admits that he stole, borrowed, whatever, the riff for Badlands from The Animals. Artists and musicians do that constantly. It's called inspiration.
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Cops beating and assaulting women at a peaceful vigil for a woman who was allegedly murdered BY A COP is fine though.
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Murdoch: Scotty, I fucked up/ignored the Internet/don't understand how it works. I'm a totally clueless fossil who just wants even more money. Please Scotty, make them pay for linking to my shitty right wing websites.
Scot Morrison: Yes boss!
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Our Idiot in Chief, aka Scotty from Marketing, has been talking to Microsoft about Bing filling the Google gap, if and when Google stops providing search here. Great, a Microsoft monopoly on search! What could possibly go wrong with that?
The Greens have even proposed a publicly funded search engine. Good grief. Imagine all the vested interests demanding that certain search terms be barred, etc. but that's the level of competency most of our politicians have.
If the proposed code goes ahead, with its insistence that Google provide 28 days notice of any upcoming algorithmic changes, then I wouldn't blame Google one bit for blocking search in Australia. 28 days notice! Talk about fucking up a business.
The hollow men of the Liberals always bang on about free market forces and all that crap. It seems they're more than willing to give that idea up to look after Rupert and his cronies. The level of hypocrisy is staggering, to say the least.
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It's maddening from both perspectives really. I am certainly no fan of the Murdoch press or Murdoch himself. He owns 70% of the news media here, so we get a lot of crap from his right wing rags and TV commentators. I'm also no fan of Facebook or Google.
To me, the argument boils down to a company, albeit a very large one, having to pay news organisations merely for linking to them, which goes against the whole spirit of the Internet.
Even Tim Berners Lee has said it will break the WWW. If Google et al are forced to pay for links, how deep does the wedge then go?
Technologically clueless politicians, beholden to Murdoch, break the Internet for an entire population just so they can stay in his good books.
Yeah, this is going to end well.
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Can someone, somehow, please gag that idiot in the white house? He is worse than the bloody virus.
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Who do I ask for permission to breathe?
Not only was the ABC raided....
But the warrant gave the AFP the power to copy, delete and modify files on its computers. That is a massive over reach and sets off all kinds of alarm bells. What next, planting files on people's computers? This is very dangerous stuff. The so called "prime minister" just shrugged it off and said "talk to the AFP". Law enforcement doing the government's bidding. Gee, that's always ended so well in the past.
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To echo Damien, yeah, fuck off.
If I run a blog or website here and I ever got a take down notice from the EU I'd probably laugh my self silly, keep calm and carry on regardless.
What a bunch of maroons.
Freedom of the press in the Internet age
The Herald Sun had a front page here that said, and I'm paraphrasing, CENSORED, THE BIGGEST STORY WE'RE NOT ALLOWED TO REPORT.
We all sussed what is was anyway, because of previous and well known publicity about the charges against Pell.
So we just went to overseas media outlets to read the story.
This abuse and covering it up has been an ongoing issue for literally decades , but we apparently have no right to hear about an important trial because it might "scandalise the court". Fuck off.
What has scandalised Australian society all these years is the criminal abuse of innocent children by the catholic church and its systematic cover ups by that same organisation.
Persecuting journalists and media outlets for having the temerity to complain that they can't report about something, even when they don't mention that something by name, would set an incredibly dangerous precedent.
The law should drag its arse into the 21st century.
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What a great idea.
They can have their own little Euro trash sheltered workshop, while the adults can use the proper Internet.
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A bunch of technologically illiterate morons sound the klaxon call of the four horsemen of the apocalypse; pedophiles, terrorists, drug dealers and criminals (I would have have thought they all fall under the heading of criminals, but no matter).
Then the legislation needs to be passed "to keep us all safe over Christmas/New Year". What a steaming pile of merde. No one is going to actively back door their hardware or software in the next 2 weeks. Ain't gonna happen.
Do I really need to go on?
It'll break the Internet, maybe not tomorrow or next week, but it wiil.
Also, hang you head in Shame, Bil Shorten.
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