IP: Australian Internet Censorship [WAS:[Oz-ISP] censorship legislation out!]

[Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>]

>Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 16:24:22 +1000 (EST)
>From: Michael Taylor <mitaylor@cisco.com>
>To: farber@cis.upenn.edu
>
>Hello,
>
>My name is Mike Taylor,  I work for Cisco in Australia.
>
>I have been seeing a lot of traffic on a local ISP list here (aussie-isp@aussie.net) about Net censorship in Australia.
>
>It is of GRAVE concern to us down here, and I just wanted to pass this on to you (at the suggestion of one of my collegues).
>
>The Australian government has just legislated that ISPs are liable for 'undesireable' content that their users may see on 'the internet'.
>
>This is in spite of a report by the CSIRO (Govt. Science oragnisation) that technically it's impossible.
>
>We have no constitution, being a Commonwealth country, not a republic, so it looks like we're screwed!!!!
>
>There are links below to a couple of articles.
>
>Best Regards,
>Mike Taylor
>Cisco Systems Australia
>
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>>From aussie-isp-owner@koala.aussie.net  Wed Apr 21 14:04:56 1999
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>From: Danny Yee <danny@anatomy.usyd.edu.au>
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>Subject: [Oz-ISP] censorship legislation out!
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>The announcement
>http://www.dcita.gov.au/nsapi-text/?MIval=dca_dispdoc&pathid=3762
>(And attempt to browbeat the ALP into supporting it.)
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>The bill (Word .doc format)
>http://www.aph.gov.au/parlinfo/billsnet/9907720.doc
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>The speech:
>http://www.dcita.gov.au/nsapi-text/?MIval=dca_dispdoc&pathid=%2fpolicy%2fonline2rs%2ehtml
>
>It seems to be basically what we've been expecting.
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