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Thought Police at work

Posted by Ian in Uncategorized on March 16th, 2006

I noticed this story in today’s paper. A website spoofing John Howard has mysteriously vanished without explanation from the net. Yahoo, which hosted the site, seems unable to provide an explanation of why it has disappeared - whether it be technical reasons or censorship. I know which I’d be betting on! This is the same Yahoo which handed over records relating to a Chinese dissident who ended up getting sentenced to 10 years prison.

Stoush.net has a post about what I assume is the website in question. The link doesn’t work now.

Update: It seems it was the government wot did it! Supposedly on intellectual property grounds - it looked too similar to the PM’s real site. Here is a link to the speech that was on the bogus site.

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2 Responses to “Thought Police at work”

  1. Comment by Arwen
    March 16th, 2006 at 8:06 am

    TOOOOTALLY censorship. Without a doubt.

  2. Comment by Steph
    March 17th, 2006 at 8:47 pm

    censorship on teh internets? who woulda thunk it!