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My post is to do with the new terrorism laws passed in many countries, but I will concentrate on my own.
The Australian Anti-Terrorism Act 2005 (Revised) is legislation intended to hamper the activities of any potential terrorists in Australia. It was passed by the Commonwealth Parliament on 6 December 2005.
The previous Anti-terrorism Act was passed in 2004.
My source is wikipedia.
Summary of changes
* Potential for preventive detention: short term detention for named individuals: without evidence; and without criminal involvement; the detainee may be interrogated by Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO); disclosing that an individual has been so detained or interrogated is, in almost all circumstances, a crime.
* Control orders: Potential for almost unlimited restrictions on named individuals: freedom of movement; freedom of association (including one’s lawyer); banning the performing of named actions and owning named items, including actions and things necessary to earn a living; unlimited requirements to be, or not to be, at specified places at any or all times of the day and week; wear a tracking device; and including encouragement to submit to re-education. These restrictions are referred to as “control orders”, and may be granted for a period of one year before review.
* Significant restrictions on the right of any citizen to express certain opinions: including criticism, or “urging disaffection”, of the sovereign, the constitution, the government, the law, or ‘different groups’; exemptions may exist where the target of criticism is agreed to be ‘in error’; exemptions appear to exist where the claim is that a feature of a group of people is in some way offensive to the mainstream of society; onus of proof of goodwill is on the defendant - the presumption is not of innocence.
* It becomes a crime, punishable by life imprisonment, to recklessly provide funds to a potential terrorist: funds include money and equivalents and also assets; it is not necessary that the culprit know the receiver is a terrorist, only that they are reckless about the possibility; it is not even necessary that the receiver is a terrorist, only that the first person is reckless about the possibility that they might be.
* Police can request information from any source about any named person: any information about the person’s travel, residence, telephone calls, financial transactions amongst other information; professional privilege does not apply; it can be an offence to disclose that such documents have been obtained.
* A legislative provision for ‘hoax offences’ will create a more serious charge for people who cause chaos for the public and emergency services by dreaming up devastating terrorist-inspired hoaxes.
Let’s be clear. I am not a supporter of terrorism, but these laws have led to a lot of mistakes and injustices. I’m not a lawyer, but the whole principle of Habeas Corpus is missing here.
As far as I know a “suspect” can be detained without a lawyer and without anyone knowing, not even family. This is a breach of human rights and in my opinion has achieved what terrorism hasn’t been able to do: it has limited the so-called freedom that the Western countries are so keen on protecting from terrorism. Now, terrorism is not new. So why have these laws been enacted? To restrict the rights of a country’s own citizens. To keep them scared. To discriminate against Muslims.
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I’ve just read a great post from Rockfuse
It is about the ethics of affiliate link cloaking. This is when you use some method which disguises a referral id of yours to a product you are an affiliate of, from which you earn a commission if someone buys via your link. I have often wondered how much better I’d go at selling things by doing this.
My main concern was not whether it is ethical or not though, but whether by cloaking the link, the referral information will go through. Apparently it does.
Frankly, if I see something that I want to buy and it has an obvious referral id in the link, I will go back to the site after without that referral link, unless I like the site and it offers me something. So if I do that, so do others.
The products I advertise on my web site do not have cloaked links, but if you visit my affiliate page, you will see down the bottom a LinkProtection software link. This is an exe file, but there is no spyware. This application will encrypt your referral link.
For blogs one can’t use the php method as far as I can see. So for blogs one could use either snipurl or tinyurl. I’ve noticed tiny url being used a lot these days, not always for referral link cloaking but for long titles in blogs. Both of these sites can be dragged to your browser toolbar for easy access.
Now the PHP method for web sites.
You can use a jump php script which you will find here
You can use a redirect in a .htaccess file
or use this script:
<?php
$url=’http://affiliatelinkhere’;
header(”Location:$url”);
exit()”;
?>
Save as something.php
Upload to your server.
To link to your product that you are an affiliate of
< a href=”http://www.domain.com/something.php“affiliate name</a>
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