[plug] "Fuck" will NOT be banned. Lets have some reality.

[John Breen]

I should certainly hope they would filter the word "amature" and other
such misspellings.  How can we expect people to be able to spell if
their primary sources of education (TV, magazines, advertising, the
Internet) can't?

Cheers,


John

John Breen
Programmer
United Construction Pty Ltd

(08) 9499-0472
john.breen at unitedconstruction.com.au


	-----Original Message-----
	From:	Mike Holland [SMTP:myk at golden.wattle.id.au]
	Sent:	Friday, 11 June 1999 10:05
	To:	plug at linux.org.au
	Subject:	Re: [plug] "Fuck" will NOT be banned. Lets have
some reality.

	On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Oliver White wrote:

	> The Australian government actually suggested using 'iSherrif'
and annother

	 What do you mean by "The Australian government"? That implies
an official
	status. Can you give names, dates, references?
	  No doubt many silly ideas have been put forward by various
government
	members, but they needn't be cause for hysteria.

	> filtering program I can't remember. These *would* filter the
word fuck, as
	> well as amature, leather and toys. A major point in the bill
is that ISPs

	This is a strawman argument - irrelevant if it isnt in the
legislation.
	On the other hand, I fell asleep while trying to read the
original
	legislation. Can you refer me?

	Specifically, where does it state that ISPs must dynamically
assess the
	content of web-sites?

	And by what grounds could language be classified as R,X, or RC?

	------

	There is a good summary at 

	http://gomed.rodos.net/censor/bill-summary.html.

	For the bill as passed in HTML, see:
	http://www.ozemail.com/~mbaker/amended.html

	These URLs found at:
	http://www.efa.org.au/Campaigns/99.html

	Mike Holland <mike at golden.wattle.id.au>            Perth,
Australia.
	                          --==--
	Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a
feature.
	                -- Rich Kulawiec