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Archive for March 20th, 2009

Anybody for a blackout?

Posted by Dave Bath on 2009-03-20

A while back, kiwi protesters blacked out their facebook/myspace/etc profile pictures (and blogs if possible) to protest against some nastiness by their new government about internet connections (see Solidarity With Kiwi Internetters 2009-02-20).

Would it be a good idea to do the same sort of thing here in protest at Conroy’s stupidities?  Those politicians on facebook/myspace and seeing a whole lot of black boxes where their friends faces normally appeared might take the hint.

So… anybody out there good at organizing or know someone who is?

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I’ve been censored for linking to Google

Posted by Dave Bath on 2009-03-20

blogotariat.com has pulled a feeditem from this blog that had links to Google, discussed blacklisted items in Thailand (like The Economist), and included a copy of an email from ACMA.

If you are quick, you’ll also see that the "top story" at Blogotariat has "n/a" next to it… and that top story last night was…

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