[plug] Internet Oppression Bill, again

[Bret Busby]

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

On 6/11/99, 11:31:50 AM, Nick Bannon <nick at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> wrote 
regarding Re: [plug] "Fuck" will NOT be banned. Lets have some reality.:


> On Fri, Jun 11, 1999 at 10:05:11AM +0800, Mike Holland wrote:
> > On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Oliver White wrote:
> >
<snip>

> Yes, under the letter of the legislation it's X and RC that must be 
banned
> completely, and R that must only be allowed to adults, but if the sort
> of tools that will demonstrate that you're following a code of conduct
> happen to stop other things as well, then what?

> You can't use nothing, that would open you up to criminal liability.
> The legislation and its context makes it clear that you are to err on
> the side of overblocking than underblocking.

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

> That's mostly up to the code of conduct, but do remember that the
> legislation contains lots of "similar" wording. It not just that the
> OFLC tells you "here's a list of URLs we've classified, block them",
> you have to block content that is "substantially similar" to them as 
well.

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

> On the basis on its contents - see the PDF guides on www.oflc.gov.au .
> It instructs in matters of crime or violence, it's RC (ie bomb 
recipies),
> if it depicts sex, cruelty, crime, etc in a manner unsuitable for a 
minor,
> it's R.

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I have this morning heard (on the 7 am news, 94.5 FM)that the feral 
government will be introducing to feral parliament before the end of 
this month, draft legislation, to outlaw "lightning strikes", 
referring to "wildcat strikes", or, strikes that occur, where a 
lengthy process, like obtaining government permission for a strike.

In the context of the Internet Oppression Bill, that means that any 
web site that informs people about the conduct of such strikes, and, 
any emails that unionists use, to communicate details of such strikes, 
will equally be outlawed.

Given that a national strike was called, and, co-ordinated, in France, 
a few years ago, using the email facilities f the Internet, what we 
now face, is Stalinist oppression, by the canberra bandits.

If the person who posted a message on this mailing list a while ago, 
indicating that he worked for a liberal (as in liberally removing 
human rights) party representative, or something, sees this message, 
then perhaps he could ask his people to explain what happens regarding 
such matters.

If the anti-liberal party (given that "liberal" is supposed to refer 
to being free") seeks to cause such oppression, then it is committing 
human rights violations, and should be taken before the United Nations 
Human Rights Commission.

Also, from cnet news, at news.com, I found the following:


The latest in Net law

Lawmakers had their hands full with a number of Internet issues.
The House passed an amendment to the Juvenile Justice Bill to
require schools and libraries to install technology to screen out
material "harmful" to minors as a condition of receiving a federal
Net access subsidy, known as the e-rate. School Net filtering
bills are nothing new, but the recent carnage at the nation's high
schools has intensified concern about minors' online habits.
http://www.news.com/News/Item/0%2C4%2C38018%2C00.html?dd.ne.txt.wr.06
19

It appears that the USA congress is kind of following the australian 
trend, in Internet censorship.

"Material harmful to minors", must make a person think that "harmful" 
depends on the definition of the day, and which definition a 
government, or president, decides to impose.

In that, I am reminded of a USA man, named mccarthy, who caused many 
people to lose their jobs, for speaking freely, back in the 60's (from 
memory), and I am reminded of a man who was so sexually perverted, to 
go all out for oral sex, but to shun vaginal sex, and, who said that 
that was not a sexual relationship, and there was nothing wrong with 
concealing it. And, that person, who kept his job, after doing the 
equivalent of cuckolding his wife, did nothing to get reinstated, the 
poor air force officer, who lost her job, after having an extramarital 
sexual affair.

When those kinds of things happen, and are published in the media, 
with the details, and the media promotion of the imperial invasion of 
Yugoslavia, it makes a person wonder what human right are left, are 
the respective ministries of truth are finished with confusing the 
truth, and the governments have turned the people back into serfs 
without rights.

Perhaps, if she reads this, Tamara might like to say what she thinks 
of Internet censorship being applied in the USA in that way.

Another tuppence ha'penny's worth.

Bret Busby