Bad Words = jail.

[technobabble66]

Any half decent PM is meant to represent *all* Australians. At least in theory. Well, maybe until this one...

And as Welly said, I think technically, she asked the country/DFAT to help her.

But I always appreciate anything that says "**** Tony Abbott".
Except porn.

 

[Dave70]

99% agree with this...
BUT,
did you read what she's actually been charged with? No? Well, you can't because last reports indicated no one, including her, know what the charges are.
Did you read what she actually did? She took a photo of someone's car that had parked across 2 parking bays then obscured identifying details such as the number plate, then posted it on Facebook.
Seriously??? I don't know about you but I honestly wouldn't have thought there was anything remotely resembling a crime in that in any country.
What its *suspected* she's been arrested for is breaking a law on breaching an individual's privacy and defaming them. Would you seriously have known what she did was in breach of a law like that. We have laws like that here in Oz and I'm damn sure she'd never be thought to be in breach of them given what she did.
I wouldn't have posted it on FB myself, but each to their own.
I'm a genuine fan of the "when in Rome" policy and wearing the consequences of being an idiot. However I'd also point out there's a few excessively draconian countries out there with highly dubious legal systems.

Orwell described one of the principles of totalitarianism as never knowing when your breaking the rules.
So hardly surprising in a country where absolute monarchy rules in accordance with sharia that principles of law may be somewhat subjective.

 

[booargy]

What happened to the photo off our wingnut leader?

 

[jlm]

She's in jail in a foreign country mate.
I understand your dislike of the beardy nerd thing - I share some of that distaste with you but slagging off a blogger does not compare with the state/a state incarcerating someone.
I know it was a joke/shitgive but it wasn't your best one yet.

Yeah, it was a B- post at best. But online clusterfucks of beer nerds literally represent a greater threat to our australian way of lief than ISIS, Daesh and the Islamic State combined. Even if I'm not posting rolled gold material, I'm raising awareness of the most important issue our nation faces.

 

[shinjuku]

Cos posting on facebook and drug smuggling are incredibly similar activities.
Good comparison.

two different countries, two different activities, two very different punishments than here.

no point going to a country if you can't respect their rules

be like an Australian woman going to Saudi Arabia, jumping in a hire car and fanging it around the CBD for a few hours, getting arrested and then crying to the goverment because all she was doing was driving a car

if you visit a country and ignore their laws, how is it not anyones fault but your own?

 

[welly2]

be like an Australian woman going to Saudi Arabia, jumping in a hire car and fanging it around the CBD for a few hours, getting arrested and then crying to the goverment because all she was doing was driving a car

No it wouldn't.

 

[shinjuku]

No it wouldn't.

Drewery Dyke, a member of Amnesty International's UAE team, said it was possible the arrest was in relation to Article 21 of the 2012 Cyber Crime law, which specifically forbids using "a computer network or and electronic information system or any information technology means for the invasion of privacy of another person" as well as for "amending or processing a record, photo or scene for the purpose of defamation of or offending another person or for attacking or invading his privacy".

so she broke their law, the person who owned the car or someone else would of reported her to the authorities. Many countries have similar laws.

should we just let them do whatever they want because it's ok in their home country?

btw NZ just passed a similar law about offending someones feelings on the internet

 

[manticle]

What are you on about?
You're reaching very far for not much.
Techno said it more diplomatically than I feel capable of at the moment.
Your analogies are absolutely terrible though. Worse even than the internet meme you found so witty.

 

[manticle]

Yeah, it was a B- post at best. But online clusterfucks of beer nerds literally represent a greater threat to our australian way of lief than ISIS, Daesh and the Islamic State combined. Even if I'm not posting rolled gold material, I'm raising awareness of the most important issue our nation faces.

I am not unsympathetic but remember where you are. Would you walk into an international librarian conference and be surprised at the number of cardigans?

 

[sponge]

I'd be more concerned about being 'shoosh-ed'.

 

[Gelding]

Yeah, it was a B- post at best. But online clusterfucks of beer nerds literally represent a greater threat to our australian way of lief than ISIS, Daesh and the Islamic State combined. Even if I'm not posting rolled gold material, I'm raising awareness of the most important issue our nation faces.

oh dear. jlm been serfing on the internet again.....

perhaps start the jlm party in your electorate you may find you raise awareness more than positing in the lounge section of a beer forum

 

[Ducatiboy stu]

Yeah, it was a B- post at best. But online clusterfucks of beer nerds literally represent a greater threat to our australian way of lief than ISIS, Daesh and the Islamic State combined. Even if I'm not posting rolled gold material, I'm raising awareness of the most important issue our nation faces.

And what is the most important issue our nation faces..

 

[Ducatiboy stu]

I'd be more concerned about being 'shoosh-ed'.

or banned for going OT...