Hackers launch DoS attack on government websites

Senator Xenophon must be celebrating. "Anonymous," the hate-group behind these attacks is known as his "personal army" on the internet sites where these weirdos hang out. Way to go Xenophon! With your personal PR support, maybe next they can hack into ASIO.

"Anonymous" are no hate group. Its been shown in testing that the governments censorship plan simply will not work. It will slow the speed of the internet for the Australian government by approximately 70% and will not serve to protect anything.

The official statement is that this is to help prevent child pornography, anyone in the technology industry can tell you that this simply cannot work, the method of filtering won't even block 1% of child pornography on the internet, the government know this.

They are using the filter to censor all manner of other things under the guise of child pornography. They plan to ban the depiction of women with 'small breasts' on the internet, which is clearly blatant discrimination. They will ban pornography depicting female ejaculation, as the officials consider it vulgar. They are moving to ban violence (ie, any action movies, video games, etc) from being depicted on the internet.

The technology they are planning to implement is shoddy at best, akin to a car with square wheels in terms of its efficiency. This is the first step the government are taking to ensuring that the only information available to the public is what they want you to hear. This plan is the beginnings of an Australian KGB. 'Anonymous' are simply doing what they can to raise awareness and help to free the people before its too late.

Even if it goes no further than the current plans, that is already too far. Can you even imagine the impact its going to have on small business when they get censored and have their websites shutdown by this plan? (Yes, this will happen, in testing all manner of collateral damage was done, from dentist surgeries to charity groups and animal shelters.) Not to mention the fact that we already have the worst internet infrastructure in the civilized world, what's it going to be like when our speeds drop by 70%? The testing showed that speed drops for the average user will range from 20-90% with 70% as the expected value. That's just plain ridiculous.

The chans are just one part of the group Anonymous, and the "Internet Hate Machine" thing is nothing more than a joke. Furthermore Pedobear was originally used as a means of insulting pedophiles. Some parts of Anonymous do have a twisted understanding of these concepts, but that doesn't make everyone connected with them, and every action they take hateful or evil. When you have an open group that accepts anyone and is spread across a massive chunk of the internet you will get bad people, that's a given. The attacks on the Australian government have nothing to do with that.

I suppose it wasn't long after the first book was written that somebody tried to burn it. today we live in a world where ideas can be shared over international computer networks, and mirroring the book burners of yesteryear people who would tell us what to read and what to think are lining up to block access to information they don't want us to see. We all should be brave enough to raise our voices against this pernicious restriction of the free flow of information.

Senator Nick Xenophon endorsed these cyber terrorists when they were attacking the Church of Scientology. Two of them, Brian Mettenbrink and Dmitry Guzner have since been sentenced to a year in federal prison for exactly the same type of computer attack the group just launched against the Australian government. And its not just about "pornography" -- the Anonymous group's websites are full of ILLEGAL CHILD pornography. Yes, Senator Xenophon, it's all about freedom of speech. Tell that to the children exploited in these videos. Your support for this group is repulsive.