It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. It was the time of the Tasmanian election in 2010, and all over the Internet, Tasmanians were crying out to speak their minds without wanting to have their actual name and address attached to their comments.
Since free speech should be an inalienable right in any fair-minded country, this site was established to provide automated authorisations for anything our Tasmanian friends wanted to say, thereby covering the letter of a law that should never have been enacted in the first place.
As the election is now run (if not quite won as I type this), I'm going to shut this down. It was an interesting experiment, but I think I might return my home address to something slightly less public, like the whois database. (I'm sure Google will start indexing that soon enough anyway.)
Fear not, though. If this sort of idiocy erupts again in Australia, I'm quite sure someone will stand up for free speech again. Because, in the end, I'd like to think it's worth standing up for.
Adam "@LGnome" Harvey