Tuesday, March 14, 2006
Fraudulent Link?
An update on the John Howard post from yesterday: the link no longer works.
Yesterday we navigated through quite a bit of this site, which is www.johnhowardpm.org. It seemed legitimate--or at least there was a lot of information on it, including a complete list of speeches, photos of Howard presenting awards to people, extensive links, etc. Today the entire site won't come up, and isn't listed in Google--a search for any text at all from the site "johnhowardpm.org" fails to turn up any results.
Moreover, we've tried two different "WHOIS" engines in an attempt to discover who the owner of the domain is, and are getting the message, "We are unable to process your request at this time. Please try again later."
Can anyone shed any light on this?
Yesterday we navigated through quite a bit of this site, which is www.johnhowardpm.org. It seemed legitimate--or at least there was a lot of information on it, including a complete list of speeches, photos of Howard presenting awards to people, extensive links, etc. Today the entire site won't come up, and isn't listed in Google--a search for any text at all from the site "johnhowardpm.org" fails to turn up any results.
Moreover, we've tried two different "WHOIS" engines in an attempt to discover who the owner of the domain is, and are getting the message, "We are unable to process your request at this time. Please try again later."
Can anyone shed any light on this?
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Article on smh.com.au
Government orders spoof site shut
By Louisa Hearn
March 17, 2006 - 11:02AM
A spoof John Howard website that featured a soul searching "apology" speech for the Iraq war appears to have been shut down under orders from the Australian Government, according to its creator Richard Neville.
His website johnhowardpm.org was blocked on Tuesday with no explanation from his web hosting company, Yahoo or the domain name registrar, Melbourne IT.
Mr Neville, an Australian futurist and social commentator, said that after two days of silence, a customer service representative from Melbourne IT today informed him by telephone that the site had "been closed on the advice from the Australian Government".
While Mr Neville concedes that some elements of the spoof site may be construed as controversial, he said one of the reasons he had chosen Yahoo's service was because it did not have any policies that restricted the nature of content that could be published.
"If there were objections to the content on the site, isn't there a democratic tradition that I be informed of it," he said.
A Melbourne IT spokeswoman said yesterday that the company would have had no involvement in blocking the johnhowardpm.org site, because the role of domain name registrar was purely administrative.
Mr Neville's satirical "apology" speech ran on a mocked-up version of a spoof website that resembled Mr Howard's own, and after going live on Monday, received 10,500 visits within 24 hours.
Mr Neville describes the parody as an act of satire and culture jamming, and is now running a link to a PDF copy of the speech on his website.
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Government orders spoof site shut
By Louisa Hearn
March 17, 2006 - 11:02AM
A spoof John Howard website that featured a soul searching "apology" speech for the Iraq war appears to have been shut down under orders from the Australian Government, according to its creator Richard Neville.
His website johnhowardpm.org was blocked on Tuesday with no explanation from his web hosting company, Yahoo or the domain name registrar, Melbourne IT.
Mr Neville, an Australian futurist and social commentator, said that after two days of silence, a customer service representative from Melbourne IT today informed him by telephone that the site had "been closed on the advice from the Australian Government".
While Mr Neville concedes that some elements of the spoof site may be construed as controversial, he said one of the reasons he had chosen Yahoo's service was because it did not have any policies that restricted the nature of content that could be published.
"If there were objections to the content on the site, isn't there a democratic tradition that I be informed of it," he said.
A Melbourne IT spokeswoman said yesterday that the company would have had no involvement in blocking the johnhowardpm.org site, because the role of domain name registrar was purely administrative.
Mr Neville's satirical "apology" speech ran on a mocked-up version of a spoof website that resembled Mr Howard's own, and after going live on Monday, received 10,500 visits within 24 hours.
Mr Neville describes the parody as an act of satire and culture jamming, and is now running a link to a PDF copy of the speech on his website.
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