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Censorship 102

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Welcome back students to your second censorship subject: Censorship 102 - What they really think about you. You will find this subject draws heavily on matters covered in Censorship 101 - Controlling what they see , especially from chapters: 1. Convincing your people you need Internet Filter 3. Introducing your Internet Filter 6. Dealing with the backlash - The 'Child Porn' Excuse 7. Dealing with the backlash - The 'Bloody Pirates' Excuse 13. Expanding the filter to retain your power The semester, we will be exploring how to monitor your citizens online and verifying that they are complying with Certified State Good-Think .

Make new signs boys

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I expect to see the speed limit for the bruce highway between cairns and innisfail will soon be reduced to 80km/h or possibly 60km/h. Why you ask? Well, some people have died . Now I may sounds a little heartless here, but every time you strap yourself into one and a half tons of metal, and travel only inches away from other people in tanks traveling at a combined speed of 200km/h, people are going to die. Sorry, but it is that simple. To think otherwise is foolish. Reducing the speed limit seems to be default behaviour for the far north branch of the department of main roads (or whatever they are called this week). Just look at what happened on the Kuranda Range: Speed limit dropped to 60, 2 overtaking lanes removed and only after a number of complains was the speed limited increased to a measly 70 on the long uphill overtaking lane. All this when the speed limit for the (more dangerous) Gillies Range is still 80. Another fine example of bureaucrats that obviously live to the south o...