2022-05-18 - Government of Australia: URGENT class 1 removal notice from the eSafety Commissioner [SEC=OFFICIAL:Sensitive]

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I would have been tempted to write back: "OK, the site has been removed." And just pretend it's down every time they contact you demanding it be taken down.

Roo Fuckers: "Sir, we just accessed teh site and it is still loading!"

KF: "Hmmm...we are not able to replicate that issue. It may be a cached version of the site on your browser"

Roo Fuckers: "No, we have tested this again. The site is still up. Please take it down now or else!"

KF: "Apologies for the inconvenience. Can you tell us which browser you are using that is giving you this error?"

Roo Fuckers: "It's not the browser, but for the record we have tried with both Chrome and Safari and the site still loads"

KF: "We have had some reports of issues with users of those browsers, but without knowing the exact version numbers it will be hard for us to properly diagnose. We hope this resolves the matter. "

...and just drag that shit out forever or until you get bored.
 
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ForTheHoard said:
Apparently there's a Chinese spy ship just cruising up and down the coast of Western Australia and nobody is doing shit about it. This is the caliber of authority we're dealing with.
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That's actually a pretty normal military and government protocol. It's a known and obvious spy ship. The Aussies, American's, British, Japanese, Korean's, and Taiwanese are getting far more data from watching the spy ship than the spy ship would ever get from listening to Australia. And of course the Chinese are trying to see who is spying on their spy ship. So the American's are spying on whoever is watching them, etc.
 
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mindlessobserver said:
It's England's fault for not bothering to write down their constitution and codify it. The US is the only Anglo country to take the time, and that was because we had to fight a years long war on the subject with the King. The rest of the commonwealth have half assed it, and Canadians discovered just this year their constitution is not the Supreme Law like in America, since Justin Trudeau quite happily suspended their bullshit charter in order to Crack down on uppity peasants who did not know their place.

So while America was born with a healthy distrust of the State, the rest of the British Enpire assumed they could carry on as usual. The UK. Canada, Australia and New Zealand did not learn the lesson of the American War.

Never trust the Government to be benevolent or well intentioned.
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If you look at Australia's brief colonised history they didn't really have the wealthy upper class needed to push for these kind of fundemental constitutional rights. Hard to push for speech rights when you're mainly concened with agricultural exports. Probably the same for the other British Dominions.
 
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Moths said:
Though dont worry people who despise us millionaires will be sucessful at turning our shithole ialand into a giant uninhabitable desert infested with camels and some mad max style petrol sniffers cruising around
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lol we already have that

To americs: yes australia has a camel problem for some reason. Roos are worse though. Completely useless

 
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JelloJerk said:
Great. Now I can't browse Kiwifarms while in the 10+ minute queues for the games I play (OCE lol), because the VPN I use fucks with the game.
I hate this country sometimes.
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> 10+ minute queues
lol, come to MWO, we've got much better 20+ min queues
Baked Al-Aqsa said:
Lmao, camels? How'd that happen? How bad is it?
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Probably something similar to the US, where our army brought them into the desert states in the late 19th and early 20th centuries for logistics and a few escaped into the wild and established a feral population.
 
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Farmer John said:
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Funny how they seem to understand how international jurisdiction works... they just choose to ignore it when it pleases them.
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Gimmick Account said:
Totally unironically, Australia's a test market for the US. That means when McDonalds wants to roll out electronic menus they run it for a year or two in Australia first and politics works the same way. Don't make the mistake of thinking it's an independent sovereign government; they don't even pretend they aren't completely bought and paid for by corporate interests so nothing they do has anything to do with actual governance.
This isn't hyperbole; have fun trying to find articles about anything they've done in the past couple decades that isn't corruption, completely ignoring exposed corruption and carrying on anyway, noose-tightening, five eyes stuff or outright corpshit. And over that time they've done away with any trace of national character to bring the political model in-line with American strategy to make Australians better guinea pigs.

New Zealand's a bit different because it's where all the billionaires build their doomsday bunkers (seriously) so that's more of a cultivation than perpetually torturing people on purpose.
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While I buy that Australia is the test market for totalitarian plans abroad, I don't know if this particular action goes that deep:
en.wikipedia.org

Five Eyes - Wikipedia

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The way I see it, there is zero chance some glowly motherfucker in the US didn't poke one of their glowing Australian brethren to take a flyer on this one.

Best case scenario Null takes it down, worst case scenario they get a contemptuous email in response.

These countries all spy on each other for each other so they can avoid any pesky constitutional limitations on domestic spying after all, so what's a favor between irredeemable iridescents?
 
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TiwiSarms said:
If you look at Australia's brief colonised history they didn't really have the wealthy upper class needed to push for these kind of fundemental constitutional rights. Hard to push for speech rights when you're mainly concened with agricultural exports. Probably the same for the other British Dominions.
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It's a fact ignored by history. But the American revolution was a revolt of the nobility. Alot of the landed aristocracy in the USA were second and third sons descended of British nobles and they were really mad at how parliament refused to recognize them as full Lord's of the realm.

Getting even deeper into the lore, Virginia was NOT colonized by the English. It was colonized by the Cornish. Tangier Island, Virginia still speaks a dialect of English more in common with Elizabethean Cornwall then any other English speaking region on the planet.

The Scots and the Irish also followed along. America was colonized by England's bastard sons, and they stuck it to the uppity assholes when they refused to show respect.
 
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AnOminous said:
The general principle is that the state sending the object into space retains jurisdiction over it and any of its citizens who are aboard it. This is codified in the Space Treaty of 1967. This would probably be applicable in the event some sort of space crime occurred between the citizens of two different countries.

While not all countries are signatories to it and fewer of those have ratified it, all current spacefaring nations have, so with the length of practice involved, I think the general principles embodied therein could probably be considered customary international law.

So a rogue satellite would still be subject to the jurisdiction of its host nation, unless launched from no nation, and nations somehow harmed by crimes committed from it or threatened by weaponry aboard it could be justified in either suing or arresting its owners (in the case of an actual crime) or, in extreme cases, shooting it out of the sky.

(The only actual space crime I can think of involved lesbian astronaut Anne McClain, who was accused of hacking into her ex's bank account from space. Which is pretty based in a way. But it didn't happen and the ex ended up charged with making false accusations. I think there have been others but I can't think of any.)
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This leads to all kinds of retarded situations. The amateur radio club that runs the station at Bletchley Park was going to launch a cubesat (there are a few tiny ham radio satellites for various experiments plus some radios on commercial satellites to play around with). The UK requires a loisence with an annual fee of 50,000 bongbucks, even though the satellite was worth a tiny fraction of that, and cubesat launches are relatively inexpensive as well.

Civilized countries are not that terrible about these things, especially for civil service groups... in the end they gave the satellite to a Dutch club whose government didn't require a license, and lease it back for a pound a year.

The cubesat they built has some amazingly simple innovations that have added quite a bit to small satellite capabilities, and it wouldn't have been possible if they had been stuck with an unaffordable annual bill many times the cost of the launch and the build. For example, the antennas are all directional, but cubesats tumble when they're released. One of their builders had the idea to put a small magnet in it, since it's in freefall in a near vacuum it should eventually align to the earth's magnetic field. It worked, and faster than expected (it took 2 orbits iirc). It had even corrected after being hit by a micrometeorite that broke off half of one of its antennas.
 
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HarblMcDavid said:
While I buy that Australia is the test market for totalitarian plans abroad, I don't know if this particular action goes that deep:
en.wikipedia.org

Five Eyes - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org

The way I see it, there is zero chance some glowly motherfucker in the US didn't poke one of their glowing Australian brethren to take a flyer on this one.

Best case scenario Null takes it down, worst case scenario they get a contemptuous email in response.

These countries all spy on each other for each other so they can avoid any pesky constitutional limitations on domestic spying after all, so what's a favor between irredeemable iridescents?
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Right, I said this pages ago but they know it's a foreign site and they know it'll be ignored so you have to assume the reason is something else like a pretence or procedural action for blocking the site and/or violating the rights of aussie users of this infamous active shooter technodrome.

But since this is probably just a bureaucrat clicking a button on a form it might be part of a general strategy involving spurious notices, which is something the Australian government is notorious for (like for years they've been sending fraudulent debt notices to innocent people apparently just to terrorise the poors).
That could be meant as a chilling effect, or to pump numbers to get more powers to "fight cyber terrorism", etc., and have nothing to do with KF itself.

Who knows, we just shouldn't say "lol they dumb" no matter what because the one thing we do know is the sophisticated degree of cuntitude
 
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Vault said:
I'm glad someone keeps videos like that safe, honestly - I really believe there's something useful to being able to see them. It's brutal and heavy stuff at times but that just reminds us it's real.

Is it wasn't you hosting it, it'd be a million other people. You'd think they'd realise playing whack a mole with data is futile.
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People don't realize that these videos also serve an educational purpose. I had to attend a class on what to do in case there is a mass shooting (Glowie environment, working with kids, week after christchurch) and the dude played the video of the mag drop, when Tarrant was knocked to the ground and just paused to highlight how bad the "freeze" reaction was for 19/20 of the people in that room.
 
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Well fellas, would you hit it?
 
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Ed Special said:
Are you refusing my divine right to Batchall, Sphereoid?
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listen i got a really good grade in law school and i think under the protocol of a batchall you just declared you want to stand around naked and blind by yourself while I get to bring a squad of minmaxed preorder robots and be as drunk as i want so we can probably skip the formality and just gimme all your crypto (i'm very fond of my pants)
 
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