Agreed Arjay and Pericles:
I actually see an interesting race forming here- technologically-illiterate pollies trying vainly to censor the net vs the vaguely more netsavy voting public getting around to using Google on political issues and parties.

At the moment I'd say media influences on politics are way too ingrained in most of the current generations, and loutish neo-conservative pollies remaining in government for either side to make a substantial move.

I'm not too scared of our woefully incompetent governments actually pulling anything off, yet the prospect that our parties would so enthusiastically embrace what are arguably fascist policies on flimsy pretenses each easily disproved- and are being happily tolerated by Australians- does not help me relax much.

King Hazza.I think we are headed for war and we can stop it if enough people become aware.Israel is trying to find reasons to attack Iran.The US Govt to my surprise is now trying to get Israel to behave.
Perhaps the Obama admin is beginning to wake up.

If Israel does initiate war with Iran,then the entire Middle East could errupt.This conflict has been spurred on by peak oil.Iran will not be as easy as Iraq.The price of oil will reach undreamt of heights which will mean more economic hardship and reduction in economic growth.

The internet is a powerful tool that can stop wars for profit.

I took a peep at "GNN" but unfortunately Umurikins have no idea how to pull off satire as they really don't understand what satire actually IS, so I didn't think it very funny.

Now the kings of satire are the Brits and there is a book called Rule #1 by Rupert Morgan which is a very clever satire on Y2K, 9/11 and the stupidity of Bush and the Umurikin people.

Oh yeah, same theme, Rule #1 says "always keep the people in a state of fear"

Yes Divorce Dr."Cyber Shockwave" was the underlying theme.Remember "Shock and Awe" Weapons of mass destruction in Iraq that did not exist.Terror,terror,terror was everywhere.It was an undefined enemy to premote indefinite wars for profit.

Over 60,000 of US soldiers seriously injured or wounded.Over one million Iraqis dead and millions suffering from injuries or poverty.Now we were have birth defects from depleted uranium bullets.You won't hear about this is the pop media.They really are disgusting.

yes but what is your point?

IMHO it was a very poor and bad taste attempt at satire

Now that I have had time to go through it, it is crystal clear that the entire exercise "Cyber Shockwave" was designed to generate a groundswell of support for the proposition that "the internet" should come under government control.

As such, it was a cynical exploitation of everyone's fear of the unknown, as precursor to public approval for government action to "protect the American people".

Come to think of it, it could be the product of a think-tank organized and run by the secret cabal of elites we keep hearing about.

Super-scary.