so there are two things im going to mention.
First is this:
http://stormen.wordpress.com/2009/07/27/att-blocks-4chan/
It's been lifted, but the fact that they did this is horrible, i may not like /b/ but NOBODY censors the internet. We control the internet they control irl thats how its supposed to be. I hate /b/ but that doesn't give them the right to block it. If people just shrugged it off as "its just /b/ so what" like some of my friends i've heard are doing, we're basically saying "okay go ahead censor whatever you want we dont care about freedom" and just like that they'll start blocking all sorts of sites.
In a twist on a classic phrase:
"First they came for the pedophiles, and I did not speak out, because I was not a pedophile.
Then, they came for the pirates, and I did not speak out because I was not a pirate.
Then they came for anonymous, and I did not speak out because I was not anonymous.
Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak out for me."
Point is, Net neutrality and Anonymity is our right. They try to censor us, we will fight back; Channer, Anon, Pirate, or just pissed net user.
it also just so happened they did this the day before Anon's response to Australia's internet-censorship was supposed to be. Coincidence? I think not.
http://insurgen.info/wiki/Operation_Didgeridie
Hello, Kevin Rudd. We are Anonymous. We have been watching you.
It wasn't very long ago since you were elected, was it? The media hype surrounding your future government back in 2007 was incredible. Many of us Australians saw both you and Barack as beacons of potential to bring end to the conservative culture that currently swamps the USA and Australia. Many of us thought otherwise, and it turns out they were right.
You, as a fag-master, have failed us. You are bringing an end to what is the greatest ling between all people; the one thing that can cross all cultural boundaries, can bring people together despite ethnicity, political or religious standings, class or nationality; the largest information transfer ever created.
You, a democratically elected fag-master, have decided to do what only the most power-hungry of all tyrants dare:
You have opted to censor the internet.
This is why we, Anonymous, have decided that this censorship plan should be among our primary targets for eliminination. We have two demands that we consider central to our ideals:
Firstly: We demand the abolition of the censorship plan proposed by the current government. This includes the removal of all targets on the blacklist, and complete abandonment of any further plans and endeavors by the Australian Government to censor the internet.
Secondly: We demand the resignation of the Australian Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Stephen Conroy. This is a man who has no level of understanding of the topic he is dealing with. This is a man who readily supports the abolition of free speech in exchange for social security. This man and his policies go against everything Australia and the western world stand for. As we see it, Stephen Conroy is completely unsuitable of being a minister of Australia, and as such, we demand his dismissal.
Failure to meet these demands will result in our full-fledged wrath. This is not something you want to happen.
Anonymous is the final boss of the Internet. We screw things up where no one else can. We are your doctors, your hairdressers,your brothers and sisters, your closest friends. We are everywhere. We bring pedophiles and animal abusers to justice. We bring the cult of Scientology to it's knees. We find incriminating evidence on vice-presidential candidates, and we work to bring information out of Iran on their current political landscape. To us, you are just a step higher. We will create and make freely available methods to render your censorship plan useless, and let these methods be known to the entire Australian public by ways we will not reveal in this message. We will also leak updated versions of the blacklist as often as we can, ensuring that the people who voted you in know what is being withheld from them.
And as your people slowly begin to realise the veil that their own government is draping around them, they will realise that they voted a tyrant into power.
This is when we will have succeeded in all our goals.
Information is free, Kevin Rudd. We, Anonymous, are not your friends. We may not be the best of people, but the one thing we will unceasingly fight for is the assertion that Information is Free.
Heed our demands, Kevin. This is our nation which you encroach upon. These are uncharted waters for you and your colleagues.
Farewell.
We are Anonymous. We are legion.
We do not forgive, we do not forget.
We are not your friends.
Expect us.
So yeah, hoping Anon can pull it off and stop the bs since if Australia gets away with this, theres no doubt the other nations will follow suit one by one.