I need to vent!

[Gutsman Heavy]

Goddamn I hate SA sometimes, the new R18 laws are ridiculous, R18 DVDs need to kept in their own section with signage warning people of possible offence!


SHIELD YOUR EYES BILLY! IT"LL CORRUPT YOU IF YOU EVEN GLANCE AT IT!



this however is perfectly fine, gg Family First, gg.

[Gutsman Heavy]

ARRRRRRRGH! Another batshit insane SA law passed.

SOUTH Australia has become one of the few states in the world to censor the internet under laws created by Attorney-General Michael Atkinson.

The new law, which came into force on January 6, requires internet bloggers, and anyone making a comment on next month's state election, to publish their real name and postcode when commenting on the poll.

The law will affect anyone posting a comment on an election story on The Advertiser's AdelaideNow website, as well as other news sites such as The Punch, the ABC's The Drum and Fairfax newspapers' National Times site.

It also appears to apply to election comment made on social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter.

The law, which was pushed through last year as part of a raft of amendments to the Electoral Act and supported by the Liberal Party, also requires media organisations to keep a person's real name and full address on file for six months, and they face fines of $5000 if they do not hand over this information to the Electoral Commissioner.

The Right to Know Coalition, made up of Australia's major media outlets including News Limited, publisher of The Advertiser , has called the new laws "draconian".

"This is one of the most troubling erosions of the right to free speech in Australia for many years," Right to Know spokeswoman Creina Chapman said.

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ARRRRRRRGH! Another batshit insane SA law passed.
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Dude, that sux. Sux so bad because I can imagine that other states will try to put that in place. That is just a really dumb law. Freedom of speech is going to fly right out the window next. (Wonder if it will get as bad as V for Vendetta...)

[kup]

WoW! That sounds as if we are living in Stalinist Russia or China!

So if you want to make any political comment you need to give your full details or face prosecution? Why is that? so they can add you the 'list' of people who are not politically convenient?

[Starscream212]

anybody watch survivor samoa???
if you do you will know why im angry!

[loophole]

ARRRRRRRGH! Another batshit insane SA law passed.

OMFG why do we have to have all the crazy people with all the crazy ideas that somehow manage to get them passed as laws

[SGB]

ARRRRRRRGH! Another batshit insane SA law passed.



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Looks like it'll be repealed:

Attorney-General Michael Atkinson vows to repeal election internet censorship law amid reader furore

[fatbot]

Dude, that sux. Sux so bad because I can imagine that other states will try to put that in place. That is just a really dumb law. Freedom of speech is going to fly right out the window next. (Wonder if it will get as bad as V for Vendetta...)

Australia has no gauranteed right of free speech, it's a popular mis-conception belived by most Australians.

[liegeprime]

AAAAAAAARRRGH why is it so that every stupid accessory I need has to be sold by that snob of a seller dit138 guy AAAAAARGGH!!!!! Why cant it be therawyde instead, at least HE replies, he has cheap postage and ships overseas - at least therawyde believes the world isnt just America!!!

[snaketales]

So I went to Midland Target today - the third Target store I had visited - looking for Star Wars the Clone Wars: Republic Heroes Wii version, advertised for $27.
Lo and behold there was one, so I snapped it up.
Back at home, loaded the disc.... "Star Wars the Clone Wars: Lightsaber Duels". No doubt a fine game but I already have a lightsaber duelling game on The Force Unleashed.
'No biggie' I thought. 'I'll take it back and they can give me the right disc'.
WRONG
Not only did they not have the disc, the woman serving me tried telling me it WAS the right disc because the cover to Republic Heroes had a character who was also on the Lightsaber Duels disc (never mind that the freaking NAME of the game was different) and that only one Clone Wars game had ever been made!
I at least got a refund and used it to buy a racing game from another store (it can have up to eight players at once, using Wii remotes and game cube controllers at the same time).

Boo to Midland Target.