Slightly OT: Petition to ban someone from the 'net
Now, I'll preface this by saying that I'm almost certain it's bovine excrement. But once you involve politicians, anything's possible. A friend of a friend (yeah, one of those stories) has raised with him the suggestion that NZ has some system to petition to have someone permanently banned from the Internet. This notional petition only requires 50 signatures. Can anyone confirm such a beast? I imagine there will be peals of laughter accompanying the reading of this e-mail, and I'll be stunned if someone says it does actually exist, but there's no harm in asking the group of people most likely to know. -- Matthew Poole "Don't use force. Get a bigger hammer."
how on earth do you enforce banning someone from the internet? Dan Matthew Poole wrote:
Now, I'll preface this by saying that I'm almost certain it's bovine excrement. But once you involve politicians, anything's possible.
A friend of a friend (yeah, one of those stories) has raised with him the suggestion that NZ has some system to petition to have someone permanently banned from the Internet. This notional petition only requires 50 signatures.
Can anyone confirm such a beast? I imagine there will be peals of laughter accompanying the reading of this e-mail, and I'll be stunned if someone says it does actually exist, but there's no harm in asking the group of people most likely to know.
That's exactly what I thought. Not to mention that you could get 50 signatures simply by standing on the corner of Queen St and Wellesly St at lunchtime. This person is apparently adamant (aren't they all?) that such a thing exists. To the point that she's out seeking further details. On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, Dan Clark wrote:
how on earth do you enforce banning someone from the internet?
Dan
Matthew Poole wrote:
Now, I'll preface this by saying that I'm almost certain it's bovine excrement. But once you involve politicians, anything's possible.
A friend of a friend (yeah, one of those stories) has raised with him the suggestion that NZ has some system to petition to have someone permanently banned from the Internet. This notional petition only requires 50 signatures.
Can anyone confirm such a beast? I imagine there will be peals of laughter accompanying the reading of this e-mail, and I'll be stunned if someone says it does actually exist, but there's no harm in asking the group of people most likely to know.
-- Matthew Poole "Don't use force. Get a bigger hammer."
Matthew Poole wrote:
That's exactly what I thought. Not to mention that you could get 50 signatures simply by standing on the corner of Queen St and Wellesly St at lunchtime. This person is apparently adamant (aren't they all?) that such a thing exists. To the point that she's out seeking further details.
ahhh there we go then... a female... 'nuff said... :)
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, Dan Clark wrote:
how on earth do you enforce banning someone from the internet?
Dan
Matthew Poole wrote:
Now, I'll preface this by saying that I'm almost certain it's bovine excrement. But once you involve politicians, anything's possible.
A friend of a friend (yeah, one of those stories) has raised with him the suggestion that NZ has some system to petition to have someone permanently banned from the Internet. This notional petition only requires 50 signatures.
Can anyone confirm such a beast? I imagine there will be peals of laughter accompanying the reading of this e-mail, and I'll be stunned if someone says it does actually exist, but there's no harm in asking the group of people most likely to know.
-- Antonio Broughton
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, Matthew Poole wrote: : Now, I'll preface this by saying that I'm almost certain it's bovine : excrement. But once you involve politicians, anything's possible. : : A friend of a friend (yeah, one of those stories) has raised with him the : suggestion that NZ has some system to petition to have someone permanently : banned from the Internet. This notional petition only requires 50 : signatures. : : Can anyone confirm such a beast? I imagine there will be peals of : laughter accompanying the reading of this e-mail, and I'll be stunned if : someone says it does actually exist, but there's no harm in asking the : group of people most likely to know. Perhaps you can ban the person from opening an account in his own name in NZ if such a silly law exists there, but he might use a fake name or open an account in another country. What's to stop him/her? scott
OK, before this turns into a huge waste of everyones time, the person who you refer to is obviously misguided and easily fooled. Matthew Poole wrote:
Now, I'll preface this by saying that I'm almost certain it's bovine excrement. But once you involve politicians, anything's possible.
A friend of a friend (yeah, one of those stories) has raised with him the suggestion that NZ has some system to petition to have someone permanently banned from the Internet. This notional petition only requires 50 signatures.
Can anyone confirm such a beast? I imagine there will be peals of laughter accompanying the reading of this e-mail, and I'll be stunned if someone says it does actually exist, but there's no harm in asking the group of people most likely to know.
On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 10:49 +1300, Matthew Poole wrote:
A friend of a friend (yeah, one of those stories) has raised with him the suggestion that NZ has some system to petition to have someone permanently banned from the Internet. This notional petition only requires 50 signatures.
I thought Hallager had already been removed? ..Oh wait....Is Hallager a friend of a friend of yours? mm. Coolness. :-)
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