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Dear Australia,
Free speech is a good thing.

Encyclopedia Dramatica is believed to be one of the websites that will be banned in Australia under upcoming internet filtering legislation.

Wow, that's sad. The whole country will be blocked from sites that the government deems offensive? Australians want this to happen?

It's also really messed up that someone with a US based website may be charged with publishing something on it that violates Australian law just because someone in Australia can navigate to it on the web. Allowing such a case to go forward would be a horrible precedent.

The online community Anonymous . . . is strongly associated with Encyclopedia Dramatica.

Not sure they know what they're talking about. I'm pretty sure they mean /b/.

patrick767: Wow, that's sad. Australians want this to happen?

Have you not seen the crap they're banning? Like small boobs in porn (regardless of age) because it might turn normal guys into pedos.

What's even sadder is that there's a large group of people in the US that would like us to follow Australia's lead.

Encyclopedia Dramatica is pretty much a cesspool of snark aimed at anything and everything it bothers to cover - these guys were surprised?

I think this needs to be one of those "yeah, but consider the context" situations. It's not like Aborigines are the only people singled out for "hate speech" over there.

Way to China it up, Australia.

The sun has rotted the nation's brains.

/That or the UK was right in sending their trash away.

Dancin_In_Anson: j4x: The Aboriginal article on Encyclopedia Dramatica is probably the funniest one on the entire site.

Got a link?

I don't even have the energy to google that for you.

First they tried to take our vegemite, and I said nothing. I curse thee Australia.

Should we be surprised??? after all they gave us this:

Barfmaker: Encyclopedia Dramatica is offensive to everyone, that is the point of it.

What offends me most about the site is it's laden with malware and virus infected links. We used a VM and found link after link were infected like a 2 dollar whore in a Mexican whorehouse.

Oh dear. A man in a different country, running a site with content he did not write personally, covered in disclaimers because of that. fark you, Australia.

Wow, what a powerful stand for the right to free speech: writing juvenile attacks against entire sub-sects of society.
What a piece of shiat this guy is.

mandingueiro: Should we be surprised??? after all they gave us this:



FAIL
It was Canada that gave us Charles Chaplain.

Sometimes I can't wait for the day when the current generation will be in charge...even though it could be a disaster, at least lawmakers will know how to work the googles and the tubes.

Maybe the aborigine should check out ED's page titled "Offended." NSFW or lunch or soul.

j4x: The Aboriginal article on Encyclopedia Dramatica is probably the funniest one on the entire site.

This strikes you as funny?

Aboriginals are the n*ggers of Australia. They are the most primitive animals on the planet.

Dancin_In_Anson: j4x: The Aboriginal article on Encyclopedia Dramatica is probably the funniest one on the entire site.

Got a link?

facepalm.jpg

1. Google ED
2. Use ED's search function
3. ????
4. Profit

lrn2internet

Knucklepopper: j4x: The Aboriginal article on Encyclopedia Dramatica is probably the funniest one on the entire site.

This strikes you as funny?

Aboriginals are the n*ggers of Australia. They are the most primitive animals on the planet.

It's funny that someone would be so crass and terrible, yeah. Not so funny if they really mean it.

Knucklepopper: Wow, what a powerful stand for the right to free speech: writing juvenile attacks against entire sub-sects of society.
What a piece of shiat this guy is.

Unpopular speech is the most important kind of speech to protect. Also, I'm not sure he personally wrote the article in question...it's a wiki, it was probably written by members.

At least nobody on the site disparaged the boot. That's a bootable offense.

NightOwl2255: Barfmaker: Encyclopedia Dramatica is offensive to everyone, that is the point of it.

What offends me most about the site is it's laden with malware and virus infected links. We used a VM and found link after link were infected like a 2 dollar whore in a Mexican whorehouse.

It's one of /b/'s mutant brothers, of course it's as filthy as a victorian whore.

If you dont wanna be offended. Don't go to the website.

next.

It will be interesting to see what awesomeness Anonymous responds to this with.

Australia, you poor, poor bastards. You're screwing with something that /b/ likes. The first rule of the internet is to never, ever screw with something /b/ likes.

/Can't wait for the retaliation.

benlonghair: The online community Anonymous . . . is strongly associated with Encyclopedia Dramatica.

Not sure they know what they're talking about. I'm pretty sure they mean /b/.

patrick767: Wow, that's sad. Australians want this to happen?

Have you not seen the crap they're banning? Like small boobs in porn (regardless of age) because it might turn normal guys into pedos.

What's even sadder is that there's a large group of people in the US that would like us to follow Australia's lead.

To be fair they are only banning small boobs. Big floppy boobs are OK. Seriously. Alright, I can see how some pedo might get off on an 18 year-old flat chested girl wearing a cheerleader outfit. Not that I support their ban though. What boggles my mind is the other thing they are banning in the name of pedophilia: female ejaculation. How could that possibly be related to kiddie porn?

I guess that's a didgeridont.

NightOwl2255:
What offends me most about the site is it's laden with malware and virus infected links. We used a VM and found link after link were infected like a 2 dollar whore in a Mexican whorehouse.

Most of the links are to porn and shock sites. What did you expect?

E Arkhe: Unpopular speech is the most important kind of speech to protect.

A zillion times THIS.

how can a nation so drunk be so uncool?

E Arkhe: Unpopular speech is the most important kind of speech to protect.

Eh.
Yeah, you're right. But fark me.

I'm finding it hard to agree with either side of this issue. On one hand, ED is nothing more than trolls trolling trolls trolling trolls eternally, and the other apparently takes notes on government from a certain Orwell book...

Can't we just nuke them both from orbit?

Encyclopedia Dramatica is awesome. (E.D. is by default NSFW, and I dare you to query the word "gross")

That is all.

Limiting free speech offends America's cultural heritage.You're on notice Australia.

Knucklepopper: Wow, what a powerful stand for the right to free speech: writing juvenile attacks against entire sub-sects of society.
What a piece of shiat this guy is.

Yes, actually, it is. Exactly because so many people find it offensive is why it needs to be protected. Freedom is about the right of the individual to chose for themselves, not about the right of the masses to chose for them. If you don't like what is there, simply chose not to go to the site.

dahmers love zombie:

I think it's a really great time for just about every website owner on Earth to 'shop up a picture of an underage Abbo humping Mohammad, who is in turn humping a dead dog outside a daycare, and make it their home page.

Remind me not to search for proof of Rule 34's validity, now. :P

j4x: The Aboriginal article on Encyclopedia Dramatica is probably the funniest one on the entire site.

i submit for your approval p p p powerbook (new window).

also, for everyone who is curious: Link (new window) (warning: NSFW)

Just put up your massive filter and kindly disappear off the internet you bloody failures.