Aus politicians puppeted by hackers

Soofing NOT hacking

As I'm sure everyone else who has read this article has pointed out, spoofing some idiots identiy to a web forum to dim to verify it is NOT hacking. Practical joke - yes hacking - no. What bothers me is that right-wing nutters controlling Australia are already spinning this as work of ebil haxxors and further justification for the Great Firewall.

background and anon for a reason

Just a short clarification regarding the events leading up to the "hack." (sorry couldn't help that, it wasn't a hack as we all know) Being a bit closer to where the action is, and having some connection with the so-called "hackers" as part of the anti-censorship movement, I thought a bit of background might throw some light on this event.

When the ACL blog came live it was spread around the group as a place where we could make our feelings known regarding the filter and the ACL backing of censorship. A number of posts were originally submitted crtiticising the ACL for supporting the censorship agenda of the government. They were not at all sarcastic and were serious discussions of why the filter was a bad idea, however despite the blog being created for apparantly this purpose, to communicate the feelings of the Australian people to the ACL, not a single post appeared. So one of the posters who's comment never appeared created an over the top sarcastic and outrageous post in support of the filter to see what would happen. Of course it was signed by a well known member of the Australian parliament :-)

Amazingly enough this ludicrous post in support of the filter appeared almost immediately, so apparantly it doesn't matter how mad and crazy the post is, as long as it suports the ACL agenda it gets allowed through, but no matter how sensible, logical and well thought out a post is, if it criticises the ACL in any way it gets rejected. Naturally this opened the flood gates, and J Goebbels, among many others, is still posting away.

Of course its no surprise that the ACL, a supporter of censorship, has no intention of allowing anything like free speech on its blog, it suprises me that they even bothered with the blog in the first place, the tiny fringe group of unorganised evil civil libertarians seems able at will to derail the well organised moral majority, surprising for such a derided and disorganised rabble.

@Kevin Rudd, PM

There comes a time when you have to accept some unpalatable truths.

The PLP think you're rubbish and reckon their only chance of winning the next election is by electing a women for the first time ever to the top spot (Bit like the British labor party with Tony Blair but with an *actual* election. Look how well that turned out).

Time to choke it down, keep your head high and make a dignified (and *permanent*) exit to spend more time with your lovely wife, kids and sheep and not to start blubbing to the press.

Of course this still leaves that nutter Conroy running around loose. He might make Labor unelectable for a generation if enough people realise what he's got planned for them.

Good night and God bless.

I think this is your coat.

lolzor

Apparently, Christians aren't scandalous enough to make fun of them - ah well, can't let that stop proceedings... we'll just make it up.

Here's a question: If there were enough votes for filtering, should a democratic government carry out the clear will of the people?

What's more important, freedom or democracy? How does that view map onto the "hate-speech" bills in the UK?

YOU DID WHAT?

" it disappeared shortly after the Reg alerted ACL."

You ALERTED the ACL to them being spoofed? Let me get this straight; you contacted the Australian Christian Lobby and actually told them someone was having a go at them on their website? You do realise these are the morons working behind the scenes of our government factions, pushing idiots like Stephen Conroy and the entire Liberal party down the path of Internet cenorship?

You actually warned them? Seriously Reg, that is really poor form. Seriously - are you now the internet police? Did you warn Apple someone nicked their kit? Do you warn every site owner you hear spoofing about?

I hope it was 'journlaistic licence' and you did actually do it.

If you did - MORONS!