Australian Censorship

[Banquo's Ghost]

I met two Australians today! They walked up to me, and the first one said 'I'm Australian'. Then the second one introduced himself with 'moi aussi'.

/randomness, meant for bilingual ears

And utterly groanworthy.

[Gregoshi]

/randomness, meant for bilingual ears

Or one willing to check it on BabelFish.com.

Good one Louis.

[Andres]

I met two Australians today! They walked up to me, and the first one said 'I'm Australian'. Then the second one introduced himself with 'moi aussi'.

Thanks, Louis

[Caius]

Government protects you from re... err, what are they protecting people from?

[aimlesswanderer]

For some reason the government has a bit of an obsession with this whole filtering thing. Terrible idea, would likely be ineffective or would slow down the net to snail speed. Even the conservatives think it is a bad idea, though they are basically saying NO to everything the government is trying to do.

[Strike For The South]

I didn't find Louis' joke that funny.

[Louis VI the Fat]

C'est un Américain qui arrive à Paris, il prend un taxi. Le taxi passe devant l'arc de triomphe: - C'est quoi ça?
- C'est notre arc de triomphe!
- Vous avez mis combien de temps pour construire ça?
- Ça a bien dû prendre 5 ans.
- Chez nous au Texas, ça prend 3 jours.
Le taxi passe devant Notre-Dame; même scène: - C'est quoi ça?
- C'est Notre-Dame, la cathédrale de Paris!
- Vous avez mis combien de temps pour construire ça?
- Oh... 40 ans, sans doute.
- Chez nous au Texas, 6 jours.
Le chauffeur commence à avoir les oreilles qui chauffent.
Ils passent devant la Tour Eiffel : - C'est quoi ça?
- Ça? Je sais pas. C'était pas là ce matin...

[HoreTore]

Seems like a trend. I wonder who the guardian of our blacklist is.

We only block child-porn here, and it's done by the child-porn croup in Kripos(kinda like our version of the FBI) and the main broadband provider, Telenor. Nothing else will is banned, and nothing else is likely to be banned, as was shown when RIAA wanted them to ban Pirate Bay, and Telenor basically gave them the finger.

As for Denmark, I know they also block Pirate Bay, not sure what else they block. Probably the CP like we do.

[KukriKhan]

This Report (on Wikileaks release of Norway's censorship list) suggests that barring alleged child porn sites is the "foot in the door" that eventually leads to un-accountable dns-banning by un-elected anonymous figures.

[Gregoshi]

C'est un Américain qui arrive à Paris, il prend un taxi. Le taxi passe devant l'arc de triomphe: - C'est quoi ça?
- C'est notre arc de triomphe!
- Vous avez mis combien de temps pour construire ça?
- Ça a bien dû prendre 5 ans.
- Chez nous au Texas, ça prend 3 jours.
Le taxi passe devant Notre-Dame; même scène: - C'est quoi ça?
- C'est Notre-Dame, la cathédrale de Paris!
- Vous avez mis combien de temps pour construire ça?
- Oh... 40 ans, sans doute.
- Chez nous au Texas, 6 jours.
Le chauffeur commence à avoir les oreilles qui chauffent.
Ils passent devant la Tour Eiffel : - C'est quoi ça?
- Ça? Je sais pas. C'était pas là ce matin...

Awesome.

[HoreTore]

This Report (on Wikileaks release of Norway's censorship list) suggests that barring alleged child porn sites is the "foot in the door" that eventually leads to un-accountable dns-banning by un-elected anonymous figures.

If it was done by a department, any politician or, heaven forbid, PST, then I would be swinging my torch this very instance.

But, since it's done by the CP division of Kripos together with Telenor, I don't. And while your link state that they're not accountable, they are very much so. Firstly by chief of police who report to the justice department. Secondly, should they decide to block people who haven't published CP, all it would take is a lawsuit to remove the ban.

[KukriKhan]

Sounds like ya'll have the watchdogs well in-hand. Good on ya, then. Go Norway!

[Papewaio]

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

C'est un Américain qui arrive à Paris, il prend un taxi. Le taxi passe devant l'arc de triomphe: - C'est quoi ça?
- C'est notre arc de triomphe!
- Vous avez mis combien de temps pour construire ça?
- Ça a bien dû prendre 5 ans.
- Chez nous au Texas, ça prend 3 jours.
Le taxi passe devant Notre-Dame; même scène: - C'est quoi ça?
- C'est Notre-Dame, la cathédrale de Paris!
- Vous avez mis combien de temps pour construire ça?
- Oh... 40 ans, sans doute.
- Chez nous au Texas, 6 jours.
Le chauffeur commence à avoir les oreilles qui chauffent.
Ils passent devant la Tour Eiffel : - C'est quoi ça?
- Ça? Je sais pas. C'était pas là ce matin...

I cannot read French but from the pacing of it and the numbers it match's in theme one about Sydney and the Opera house. It also features a Texan...

[Strike For The South]

C'est un Américain qui arrive à Paris, il prend un taxi. Le taxi passe devant l'arc de triomphe: - C'est quoi ça?
- C'est notre arc de triomphe!
- Vous avez mis combien de temps pour construire ça?
- Ça a bien dû prendre 5 ans.
- Chez nous au Texas, ça prend 3 jours.
Le taxi passe devant Notre-Dame; même scène: - C'est quoi ça?
- C'est Notre-Dame, la cathédrale de Paris!
- Vous avez mis combien de temps pour construire ça?
- Oh... 40 ans, sans doute.
- Chez nous au Texas, 6 jours.
Le chauffeur commence à avoir les oreilles qui chauffent.
Ils passent devant la Tour Eiffel : - C'est quoi ça?
- Ça? Je sais pas. C'était pas là ce matin...

Pffftt. Stealing jokes from the Canadians are we?

[Husar]

If it was done by a department, [...], then I would be swinging my torch this very instance. [...] Firstly by chief of police who report to the justice department.

(emphasis mine)

They're talking about banning child porn here as well but some ISPs don't really want to yet and say there has to be a law for it, the issue that it opens a pandora's box for internet censorship is also raised, personally I hope it's not going to happen, it would make more sense to me if they started to hunt the ones who produce the matierial, I mean they had less reasons to invade Iraq, so that they operate in foreign countries is not an excuse.

[Caius]

C'est un Américain qui arrive à Paris, il prend un taxi. Le taxi passe devant l'arc de triomphe: - C'est quoi ça?
- C'est notre arc de triomphe!
- Vous avez mis combien de temps pour construire ça?
- Ça a bien dû prendre 5 ans.
- Chez nous au Texas, ça prend 3 jours.
Le taxi passe devant Notre-Dame; même scène: - C'est quoi ça?
- C'est Notre-Dame, la cathédrale de Paris!
- Vous avez mis combien de temps pour construire ça?
- Oh... 40 ans, sans doute.
- Chez nous au Texas, 6 jours.
Le chauffeur commence à avoir les oreilles qui chauffent.
Ils passent devant la Tour Eiffel : - C'est quoi ça?
- Ça? Je sais pas. C'était pas là ce matin...

I dont understand the end of the joke, but the rest I did.

[drone]

Won't someone please think of the children!!!!

[Gregoshi]

Won't someone please think of the children!!!!

Pervert!

Just kidding drone. 'Twas too good of a setup to let go.

[Shaka_Khan]

C'est un Américain qui arrive à Paris, il prend un taxi. Le taxi passe devant l'arc de triomphe: - C'est quoi ça?
- C'est notre arc de triomphe!
- Vous avez mis combien de temps pour construire ça?
- Ça a bien dû prendre 5 ans.
- Chez nous au Texas, ça prend 3 jours.
Le taxi passe devant Notre-Dame; même scène: - C'est quoi ça?
- C'est Notre-Dame, la cathédrale de Paris!
- Vous avez mis combien de temps pour construire ça?
- Oh... 40 ans, sans doute.
- Chez nous au Texas, 6 jours.
Le chauffeur commence à avoir les oreilles qui chauffent.
Ils passent devant la Tour Eiffel : - C'est quoi ça?
- Ça? Je sais pas. C'était pas là ce matin...

I demand English with French like you did in your earlier post. It'll be educational for us:

I met two Australians today! They walked up to me, and the first one said 'I'm Australian'. Then the second one introduced himself with 'moi aussi'.




/randomness, meant for bilingual ears

[KukriKhan]

The passenger in the joke has pretty good French, for a Texan. And the driver is pretty courteous.

Which would both be suspicious to some. Maybe the driver thought he was ferrying a late-as-usual American to The Front.

[Louis VI the Fat]

I demand English with French like you did in your earlier post. It'll be educational for us

More Franglais? Nah.

They were just a few posts. To honour last week's global 'Week of the French Language'. A great worldwide celebration that, no doubt, caused much exitment throughout the English speaking world.

In recent years centre stage was given to words such as 'abricot, amour, chic, bizarre'. This year, more ambitious and exalted than ever, the following words were subject of grand celebration: 'ailleurs, capteur, clair de Terre, clic, compatible, désirer, génome, pérenne, transformer, vision'.



Words of grand vision and inspiration. The very word 'désirer' commands me to write a poem for Proletariat:

Je cherche une couleur
Mais il n'y a pas de mots
Pour décrire mon désir...

(The fun here is that 'the words' create the desire to write a poem. Whereupon the poem itself is about the lack of words to describe desire. The word desire creates desire for the word. Etcetera. Postmodern too. The 'text' of the poem can not be understood outside of the 'Text' that precedes it, that surrounds it. )





Yay! I managed to turn an Australian censorship thread into a French language thread.

[Brenus]

An American arrives in Paris, takes a cab. The taxi passes in front of the Arc de Triomphe:
- What is that?
- How much time to build it?
- Around 5 years.
- At home, in Texas, it takes 3 days.
The taxi passes in front of Notre Dame.
- What is it?
- Notre Dame, Paris Cathedral.
- How much time to build it?
- Err, 40 years, around…
- At home, in Texas, 6 days.
The driver starts to get the hump…
They pass in front of the Eiffel Tower.
- What is that?
- This? I don’t know. It wasn’t there this morning.


Au clair de terre nait le désire de visions qui transforment d’un clic l’ailleurs, capteur du génome pérenne compatible d’éternité fugace et changeante.

[Seamus Fermanagh]

...Yay! I managed to turn an Australian censorship thread into a French language thread.

Cher Louis, Est-ce que tu desires un position sur L'Academie?

Bon chance! Tu es marvailleux!

[pevergreen]

Back on topic: The senator responsible for this is going on a live Q&A show on ABC 1 on thursday night. Hopefully he will be grilled.

Back off topic: I was reading a games manual last night, and it was talking about new maps. Going on about Yuctan and Spanish penisula then:

And of course, Texas!

I smiled.

[Kralizec]

I assume that distrubiting the list is "punishable" because it would entail publishing links to child pornography?

It would be understandable if it was truly limited to kiddie porn (and even then website owners ought to be notified) but since it isn't going to stop those who are really looking for it, why bother

[Vuk]

This thread needs to be deleted. People should not be able to talk about censorship. It should all be censorsed!
My 2 cents though, if the site has content that is illegal in that country (terrorist stuff, illegal types of porn, etc), it should be on the blacklist. If it is illegal anyway, you are sparing people from breaking the law.
I personally think that porn should be illegal (I am not talking about pinning up pictures of cute girls in bikinnis, I am talking real porn), but that is the choice of the government that the people elect (so the people indirectly), and if they do not want to make it illegal, then it should not be blacklisted. I think the thing to do in that case would be to first make porn illegal, then add it to the list.
(darnit, I just roasted porn on an internet site, I am gonna get flamed I know :P)

[Kadagar_AV]

The passenger in the joke has pretty good French, for a Texan. And the driver is pretty courteous.

Which would both be suspicious to some. Maybe the driver thought he was ferrying a late-as-usual American to The Front.

A less known fact is that the state really didn't appreciate it when the taxis send them the bills...

And no, that is NOT a joke.

There is something very french about risking your life carrying troops right up to the front, dodging bullets as you go... Then sending a bill.

[CountArach]

I personally think that porn should be illegal (I am not talking about pinning up pictures of cute girls in bikinnis, I am talking real porn)

I have someone I'd like you to meet. His name is freedom of expression.

[rvg]

Hands off the smut! Internet Porn is sacred. Without it the internet traffic would drop by 50% and many ISPs would go under.

[Papewaio]

I have someone I'd like you to meet. His name is freedom of expression.

When they say 'read my lips', I don't think that was what they mean...