Encyclopedia Dramatica and ‘racial hatred’
p2pnet view Freedom | P2P:- Joseph Evers owns the Encyclopedia Dramatica Blog, a “look inside the lulz”.
“Encyclopedia Dramatica is Wikipedia’s evil twin”, says ninemsn, going on, “It’s a site where almost every article is biased, offensive, unsourced, and without the faintest trace of political correctness. A search through its archives will reveal animated images of people committing suicide, articles glorifying extreme racism and sexism, and a seemingly endless supply of twisted, shocking views on just about every major human tragedy in history.
“Very few of you know or care about me”, says Evers, going on >>>
I’d apologize for that but it doesn’t make a lot of money. What we do at Encyclopedia Dramatica is a labor of love, and we all put in what we can. Largely, the great team of volunteers really makes things work for this website, and your donations and page views have been (barely) making ends meet lately. No matter what the current administration and news will tell you, we are in a worsening depression. The last depositors of my fund left 2 years ago despite year after year profitability with no losses and they haven’t come back. Most everyone I know is broke and unemployed. Things are hard, and if Encyclopedia Dramatica were still relying on my pocketbook it would have died when that particular well dried up.
But that isn’t what Evers is writing about. “Among the articles on the website is one lampooning the death of Bundaberg schoolgirl Trinity Bates”, says ninemsn. “Another article, about Australian Aborigines, was deemed so offensive it was removed from Google’s search earlier this year.”
And now he’s on the wrong end of a missive from the Australian Human Rights Commission.
Encyclopedia Dramatica has been in a lot of trouble in Australia lately, he says, continuing >>>
First ED was placed on the ACMA blacklist, a “secret” list of websites to be censored throughout Australia in their upcoming internet filter. After this list was leaked to the public, we all laughed about how we were put on a blacklist with “Wikipedia entries, euthanasia sites, websites of fringe religions, Christian sites, and even the websites of a tour operator and a Queensland dentist”. Meanwhile, Australia Communications Minister Stephen Conroy called for the arrests of Australians publishing the list.
Next the “Aboriginal” article was recently removed from Google Australia’s search engine results. This was right after Google had done a large amount of grandstanding about fighting Chinese censorship. Which proves they’re a bunch of spineless hypocrites. Really, you have to admire the shrewdness of Google. China was a gigantic business failure, and a loss leader. With a bunch of CIA and shareholder money Google went in promising that their search technology was really so much better (FYI: from a perspective of pure technical achievement, Yahoo’s is best in the business right now, though they do poison their search results with paid entries) that the Chinese market would fall in a fortnight. Years and what is likely billions later, Baidu completely dominates the Chinese search market. By spinning an obvious business failure as a failure of RED POLITICS Google was able to pull out of China without losing face. Their idiot shareholders sat there and applauded them for wasting billions of their money. For that I give Google a lot of respect. They are some of the most brilliant marketers around, but as anyone who has used Google’s ad placement can attest, the only thing they really excel at selling is themselves. [Hear hear.]
The Human Rights charge is “an initial investigation into charging me, personally, with the violation of Australia’s Racial Discrimination Act”, says Evers, stressing while he’s in compliance with “both the civil and criminal codes of the US”, and is “assured the right of free speech according to our Constitution (which, if not the greatest political document in the entire history of law, is certainly on the top five)” he could be “jailed and fined for the violation of this law”.
“Check out the court precedent they [the AHRC) cite, Dow Jones & Co Inc v Gutnick, where a United States paper had to pay 580k for publishing an article about a globalized company headquartered in Australia and its CEO whilst completely in compliance with United States civil precedence”, says Evers, adding:
“This isn’t a far-fetched legal theory, they have used it before. Welcome to the one world government, folks. Is this what you wanted? Is this what you had in mind? Cause this is what you’re gettin’.
“Encyclopedia Dramatica will never be censored in any way. We will keep publishing this content and our Australian users will be able to view it up until the point that your God-forsaken government blocks it with their soon-to-be-implemented secret list of banned material. ACMA’s child pornography blacklist is only one half child pornography. The rest is religious and political speech. You really want Soviet-style communism as your future? I know some people that had to escape from the GDR. Many of your children will be in that position. The house of cards is about to come down, and they’re making sure your mouths are taped shut first. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.
“My counsel has advised me that I can never under any circumstances visit my family in Sydney again, nor otherwise make any appearances on Australian soil. Here’s to the hidden cost of freedom.”
Stay tuned.
(Cheers, RW)
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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi
ninemsn – Interview: Encyclopedia Dramatica moderator, March 9, 2010
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March 19th, 2010 at 12:46 pm
Australia is gone. The fact that the politicians are finally killing free speech is just the final nail in the coffin. IT’S THE PEOPLE that are the problem. They are too dumbed down and cowardly to maintain their own freedom, and would rather submit to an out of control authoritarian state than be exposed to anything that has a 1 in 1,000,000 chance of harming them, either physically or mentally.
They psychopath control-freaks running the show down under are a REFLECTION of the will of the people. Their culture is that of fear and submission to authority.
The UK isn’t far behind, and the way things are going here in North America, we will be soon to follow.
March 19th, 2010 at 6:11 pm
^^ Actually, I think the US is out in front. The American ‘authorities’ are just better spinsters.
Cheers!
March 19th, 2010 at 8:33 pm
It seems that Encyclopedia Dramatica is just another unapologetic attempt at offensive and politically-incorrect humor. A clip from their Holocaust article:
“So let me summarize what the Jews went through; Loaded onto trains, traveled to camps, deloused, went back onto the trains, and continued to be shipped off out of Europe. What with the war happening, Hitler had no other choice but to keep the remaining single Jew at Auschwitz (Jerry Seinfeld), due to his railways being blocked off due to being Arch Enemy for a few. He made use of Seinfeld by making him work as Slave Labor to produce lolicon manga and Tootsie Rolls, but not mistreated, in fact he even was given free Red Bull and cigarettes, which he was kind enough to share with Cosmo Kramer since he didn’t like n*ggers either.”
Does anyone really take this nonsense seriously?
Apparently they do. A few years ago Canada extradited former UFO-conspiracy nut Ernst Zundel to Germany (where he’d not set foot in half a century) to stand trial for material on his website. Just released, this infamous Canadian resident spent seven years in prison for his non-PC opinions of WWII history.
Anyone who thinks it’s only countries like China and Iran that send bloggers to prison could use a lesson in reality.
March 19th, 2010 at 8:59 pm
Jon: I know “U.S. bashing” has been the hip thing for non-Americans to do for the past few years, but I honestly don’t think the U.S. has stripped nearly as many civil liberties as the U.K. and Australia.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not given to blind American nationalism. But I call it like I see it. The United States doesn’t have nearly the level of privacy-invading surveillance that the U.K. does, and not nearly as much censorship as Australia.
You could, of course, attempt the argument that the U.S. just “keeps it real secret,” but I would counter that given the scope of the overt oppression in the U.K. and Australia, it would be impossible to match it and keep it secret at the same time.
That is, of course, unless you’re really into conspiracy theories…mind-control through HARRP, military jets with Romulan cloaking devices, and tracking devices in your teeth. Then anything goes.
March 19th, 2010 at 9:48 pm
@ RadialSkid:
Yes. Maybe I was hasty, there. The UK is worse.
Australia? I tend to think if things go much further, there could be an uprising. But that’ll never happen in the US or the UK.
Cheers!
March 19th, 2010 at 10:57 pm
There will never be an uprising in Australia because Australians are apathetic, lazy, disinterested, beer-swilling fools. I know because I am one. In Poland the government proposed an incredibly sane public-court-review process for banning sites and the public still rose up and protested until the idea was scrapped. Australia proposes a secret blacklist made with no form of review or recourse to appeal to be mandatorily implemented nation-wide covering satire and political comment sites as heavily as CP, and the Australian public responds with ? A ten person “march” in the streets of Brisbane, that’s what ! Noone cares, noone protests, and noone stands up for their rights or the rights of other Australians to free speech (not something Australians are promised by law) and public expression.
Even the facebook group http://www.facebook.com/pages/Id-rather-do-without-Australia-than-Encyclopedia-Dramatica/371504131721 has not achieved more than 500 members. Because noone cares if their liberties are taken away in this country.
March 20th, 2010 at 3:47 am
“There will never be an uprising in Australia because Australians are apathetic, lazy, disinterested, beer-swilling fools.”
Sadly, that’s the problem in much of America, too. If things get much worse here….well, people will just let them, won’t they?