Fw: Re: OT: WEB HOSTING!!! And imperative.
Jaroslav Lukesh
lukesh na seznam.cz
Středa Říjen 27 09:05:03 CEST 1999
Omlouvam se za velmi dlouhy OT, ale je to docela zajimave cteni. Hlavne,
aby se u nas nenasel nejaky sardinkovy kluk, nebo dopadneme jako v
australii (obsah inetu musi byt "bezpecny" pro osoby od sedmi let!!!).
Skoda, ze jsem predchozi maily smazaval, byly tam taky dobre joky.
J. Lukesh
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| Odesílatel: Batz Goodfortune <batzman na all-electric.com>
| Komu: Paul Maddox <Paul.Maddox na unilever.com>; doyle na apex.net.au
| Kopie: synthdiy <synth-diy na mailhost.bpa.nl>
| Poedmit: RE: Re: OT: WEB HOSTING!!! And imperative.
| Datum: 27. oíjna 1999 2:59
|
| Y-ellow Paul 'n' y'all.
|
| At 02:21 PM 10/26/99 +0100, Paul Maddox wrote:
| >Doyle,
| >
| > Erk, you said a banned word , or dozen.....
| >
| > Like you say, someone in australian government obviously
| >swallowed the medias "the internet is death and pervsion" pill!
|
| Actually it's way more complex than that. If it were that simple we would
| have fort the good fight and won.
|
| You see we have this religious nutter called Brian Harradine. Senator
Brian
| Harradine. Until recently he held the balance of power in the Senate.
| Someone showed him a rude picture on the net once and he became hell bent
| to destroy it.
|
| Now the unfortunately elected bastard government also had an agenda of
| their own. They wanted to create a new tax which slugs poor people and
sell
| of most of our public assets. But Brian Harradine (or Sardine boy as
he's
| known) stood in their way. He said. "Kill the internet or I won't pass
your
| new tax laws"...
|
| That about sums it up.
|
| The day the legislation passed we lost 240 million dollars worth of
| internet investment in this country. Senator Dicky Alston, the mongrel
in
| charge of communications in this country, said we (ISPs, content
providers
| and internet people in general) were all "Idiots" and we "Didn't know
what
| they are talking about." This, despite 100 submissions to the contrary
and
| 2 reports commissioned by his own department which said. "Don't do it
| Dicky. You'll send this country back to the stone age." Ironically, the
| following week, Dicky AlSton-ed flew out to the US to drum up IT business
| for Australia. Silicon valley and others laughed him out of the country.
| He said of Americans. "They're all idiots. They don't know what they're
| talking about."
|
| In the process of all this he managed to break 3 trade agreements with
the
| US and even a UN resolution on freedom of speech. And then our Beef
| industry wonders why the US said. "Nar I think we can do without buying
| your rotten meat." Basically in one bout of ultimate stupidity, this
| mongrel government stuck it's fingers up and flipped off the entire
world.
| Then wonders why no-one wants to do business with us any more.
|
| Now we're all geeks. We saw this as a bug in the system requiring a
| work-around solution. Which I can cope with. But now! These evil bastards
| are proposing a new law. One that basically makes it a criminal offence
to
| provide web content which they deem to be "Offensive." There is no
| definition of what is or isn't offensive. It is entirely up to the
opinion
| of some arbitrary body of people on the day. There is no provision in
the
| legislation for a warning. Like. "We idiot bastard nutters in power
have
| determined your site is offensive. you have 24 hours to destroy it."
| Instead, the law says it's an instant criminal offense and we're coming
to
| arrest you for it.
|
| Now none of this is a problem if you run a site suitable for
pre-schoolers
| but if you run a site which tells it like it is in any fashion then
you're
| likely a target. Synth, or electronics information could be seen in the
| same context as bomb making or drug manufacture. The fact that My site
has
| articles and stories from Geeks could be seen as subversive. It's too big
a
| risk to take.
|
| But they can't touch you if you host the site outside of Australia. So
| whilst I can get a very good deal to host it here, I can't do it even if
it
| was free.
|
| Now it has to be realized. This Australia we're talking about. Nice,
| friendly, happy, laid back, sunny Australia. The same government which,
| after years of fighting for their rights, Cut funding for Education for
| Aboriginals. The same government who are consistently trying to erode
| Aboriginal Rights. The same government who are trying to kick Invalid
| pensioners out into the gutter. The same Government who are trying to
take
| away everyone's rights in the work place. The same government who cut
back
| services to the point where if you get sick, you die... The same
government
| who are quite happy to take your tourist dollars and make sure you don't
| see any of the real Australia while you're here. So it's not surprising
| that they'd try and suppress anyone from telling it like it really is on
| the internet.
|
| Oh yeah did I mention that this new draft legislation makes it an offence
| for Australians to say anything offensive or subversive in a public
on-line
| forum. Such as Usenet or publicly accessible list servers and chat???
Same
| deal. Go to jail don't pass go.
|
| Now I know this is way OT but that's what's happening down here. And why
| I'm desperate for cheap off shore web hosting. I can't afford commercial
| rates because I don't make any money out of the site. It is simply our
| (AEK's) creative outlet.
|
| There will be a lot more of us looking for hosting OS in the coming
months...
|
| What can I say? Australia was once a nice place. Perhaps when the
| Aboriginals had it. But if you wanna see a bunch of scared middle class
| Australians going. "I'm gonna loose my job if I don't smile for the
| tourists." then come on down.
|
| Be absolutely Icebox.
|
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