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Quote by Channel Nine:

"Encyclopedia dramatica's purpose is to provide a central catalog for the e-public to view parody and satirie (sic) of drama, memes, e-pals and other interesting happenings on the internets," a page explaining the site says.

"The goal is to provide comprehensive, reference-style parody, to poke fun at everyone and everything on the internet."

Quote by Sensitive Mr. Hodder-Watt:

“I was shocked, ashamed and embarrassed that any race, let alone my own people, should be labelled this way when I came across the offensive webpage,” said Mr Hodder Watt.

Quote by Whinging Dick:

I saw something I didn't like and thought maybe I could get my name in the news by being an intolerant idiot, and feigning outrage.  It's totally working.

Quote by Hillary Clinton:

"In the last year, we've seen a spike in threats to the free flow of information. China, Tunisia, and Uzbekistan have stepped up their censorship of the internet.

[...]

Those who disrupt the free flow of information in our society or any other pose a threat to our economy, our government, and our civil society.

Quote by James Fallows:

Tunisia, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Egypt -- this is not the grouping of countries that the Chinese government, in its recent sense of rise to superpower status, is used to being lumped with.

Quote by The Article:

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.

Quote by Michael Atkinson:

"I am also certain that Advertiser Newspapers and News Limited will punish me personally, viciously for being the attorney-general responsible for this law," he said.

"You will publish false stories about me, invent things about me to punish me."

Quote by EFA:

I think the best interpretation of this law is probably the one that only ‘periodical’ publications and real broadcasts will be covered; so online newspapers and broadcasters will be covered, but not necessarily small personal websites or blogs. If that’s the case, then this legislation does not seem as bad as it first appeared.

Quote by What Michael Atkinson actually said:

I now understand that bloggers demand the right to publish, on the net, political commentary in the election period anonymously or under an assumed name," he said.

"I miscalculated the strength of feeling among teenagers and people in their 20s...

Quote by Techdirt:

This is a huge victory for those who believe that the efforts by copyright holders to push secondary liability on ISPs is a very dangerous policy. It's great to see the court get this one right.

Quote by Michael Geist:

Australian Internet users are today celebrating a landmark decision in which an Australian court ruled against the film industry in their lawsuit against iiNET, Australia's third largest ISP.  The industry had asked the court to hold the ISP liable for infringing BitTorrent activities of its users.  The court soundly rejected that demand, holding that the ISP could not be seen to have authorized the infringement.

Quote by EFA:

It’s easy to understand the frustrations that the Anonymous members feel – it’s true that the censorship plan has been thrust on the Australian public without consultation, research or a coherent policy objective. But this campaign just serves for Anonymous members to get a little revenge. It certainly won’t persuade anyone; rather, it will hurt the anti-filtering campaign.

Quote by The Age:

At its most serious, online racism is dealt with under the Commonwealth Criminal Code, which can punish those who urge people to harm other Australians because of their race.

But when there is no obvious intent to incite violence, the commission has only limited powers.

Race Discrimination Commissioner Graeme Innes said there were clearly ''persistent pockets of racism in Australia'' linked to attacks on Indian students and cyber racism.

''There is no getting away from it,'' he said. ''Cyber racism is a result of that, as are the attacks on Indian students, and we need to address it.''

Quote by EFA:

Banning racist content on the Internet might seem like a good idea on the surface, but you don’t have to dig very deep before the idea becomes problematic. The existing laws throughout the states grapple with some thorny issues. How do you define hate speech? “Kill all Jews” certainly counts, but what about “Liberate Palestine”? Is Holocaust revisionism hate speech? What about an honestly held  opinion on the undesirability of immigration from a certain part of the world? Does this inspire “hatred, contempt or severe ridicule” against a group of persons? These ambiguities will become more problematic if a new national law is introduced that applies to every blog on the Internet.

Quote by NFG:

The fact is there IS a huge racism problem in Australia, but until the country collectively pulls itself together and aims a little higher than the usual get drunk on the beach aspirations most kids seem to have, it's not going to change.

It was revealed today a script within the minister's homepage deliberately removes references to internet filtering from the list.