Australian Website Bans ... Australians 247
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Nazlfrag writes "Earlier this month the blog and discussion forum ZGeek was sued for $42 million AUD over a user's comment. The plaintiffs are aspiring movie producers who claim to have lost a movie deal due to a 9/11 conspiracy discussion thread. Even though the initial lawsuit has been thrown out, and the company complied with lawyers' demands by taking down the offending posts, it is believed the plaintiffs will file suit again. In addition to suing the forum, in an Australian first they have been granted an injunction to force the ISPs to disclose the IP addresses of the two posters involved. Due to the risk of incurring even greater legal costs the company is closing its doors in Australia, and will ban their fellow countrymen from posting there again."
Poor Aussies (Score:5, Funny)
Why does everyone keep treating them like a bunch of criminals?
Local solution (Score:5, Funny)
Throw anotha lawya' on the barbie, mate?
Re:Poor Aussies (Score:5, Funny)
They're used to it, because iocane comes from Australia, as everyone knows, and Australia is entirely peopled with criminals, and criminals are used to having people not trust them
Re:Poor Aussies (Score:5, Funny)
Why does everyone keep treating them like a bunch of criminals?
Oh come on... we can't be dicks to a penile colony?
Australia is a little jumpy right now (Score:5, Funny)
what with Sasha Baron Cohen making a contentious movie about a flamboyant gay Australian
and their favorite Australian son, Arnold Schwarzenegger, is having major troubles in Caleefornya
but Australians will always have the Sound of Music, Mozart, the Tyrolean Alps, and Hitler
Re:Australia is a little jumpy right now (Score:3, Funny)
*Whoosh*
Re:Poor Aussies (Score:5, Funny)
A recent federal directive regulating the price of cabbage contains 26,911 words.
Ah, yes. Also known as "Cole's Law".
*WHOOOOSH* (Score:5, Funny)
Finally on BBC News we go to Sheila McCarthy, who is braving the UNIX longhairs on Slashdot to bring us a *WHOOOOSH* post. What's happening there Sheila, you big-titted should've-been-a-pornstar shagpot? Oh, thinking out loud again. Errrrm, cut to Sheila, cut to ...
- At Slashdot -
I'm reporting live from Slashdot where someone has just mis-understood a joke. "Now what's unusual about that, you news-readin' ho'?" You might ask. The person doing the mis-understanding is a male, basement-dweller, with an enormous beard and a stupendously huge ... collection of adult videos. But the unusual thing is how smash here is a four-digit UID'er. This is someone who has spent literally millenia on Slashdot, yet when he saw this -- fairly elementary -- joke, it flew right over his head. Let me tell you, Dermot MacDermott, it was quite a sight and not something this community is likely to forget in a hurry.
- back in the studio (where Dermot is scratching his crotch with one hand, whilst gesticulating toward a monitor screen with another) -
Those fuckin' tits man, they're like what they model implants on, you sure they're fuckin' real man? *Ahem* So Sheila ... Is it likely that Slashdotters will erect some sort of monument to this event, maybe erect a ... ummm ... statue?
- Outside Slashdot HQ, Soviet Nealistan -
There have been discussions of celebrating this event yearly, some names for the event have been discussed, but have all been shit so far. For example: "smash-n-whooosh", "-1 Funny Day" and "Day of the Whooosh" are some of the names suggested. Since these are a bit shit, it has been decided -- in a joint meeting of Neal Industry executives, Netcraft's resident BSD troll, and Rob - Dingo Ate Ma Baby - Malda -- that a name for this soon-to-be historic occassion be opened up to the wider Slashdot community. With a winner being the first post following this one to be moderated "+5 Troll". We're attempting to get an interview with smash, but until we can find him it's back to Dermot in the studio in London, where hopefully he's not having a wank like during the report on women's mud wrestling last Thursday, dirty bastard.
Re:Poor Aussies (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Poor Aussies (Score:5, Funny)
The sad part is that it seems that only Aussies treat Aussies like a bunch of criminals.
That's because they forgot to kick out the guards.
Re:Poor Aussies (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Poor Aussies (Score:3, Funny)