Wednesday, September 14, 2005

Australian gov threatens graffiti sites there, again

CLAMP on graffiti - Advertiser Adelaide
"SOUTH Australia has asked state and federal censorship ministers to examine internet websites promoting such illegal activity as graffiti. ..."

Federal censorship ministers? What's up with that? I thought Australia was a free speech zone. At any rate, they've had a long tradition of wiping Australian graffiti sites off the Internet from time to time, so apparently they think some information is just too dangerous for their citizens to see. How sad. Maybe these censors should go after hate speech instead, hmm? Perhaps Australians who care could write to their newspapers and explain the difference between art and hate while the Oz graffiti sites find safer places for their archives, such as Canada and Germany. And please keep those backups in a safe and remote location. Your history depends on it.

Does anyone know the URL for the "website that appeared to highlight the activities of a graffiti gang in Adelaide's north-east" aka K2K? The gov did shut them down but they moved to a new domain.

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