{celebrating a decade of learning to write in front of an audience}

Strangest online disclaimer yet

MeFi has posted a link to what must be the strangest online disclaimer yet: “If you are an Australian, Japanese or Canadian person or are viewing this page from Australia, Canada or Japan you must exit the site by clicking on the ‘I disagree’ button below.”

Playing off of the U.S. restrictions on exporting encryption software to “States of Concern”, a couple people note that “The Axis of Politeness must be stopped or the terrorists will have won!”   (According to a humorous article from the Center for Defense Information, however, the three nations are more accurately called “just plain states”.)



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