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Paul McCutcheon writes:
> I checked the "~apollo" account and (scratching the "/C10" off the end) the
> site is _very_ obvious in it's violation of the Western Australian
> Censorship Act 1996.

Hmm.  A few issues:

0) Has this judgement (that the user is breaking the law) been made
   by a court or censorship office?  Or is it just your opinion?

1) Is the site being closed for technical reasons?  (eg: its getting
   a zillion hits per hour, and causing an unreasonable load on your
   system?)

2) If not, have you informed clients, before they join, that they will
   not be allowed to host R rated material?

3) If you are concerned about children having access to this site, have
   you suggested to the user that they put some age authentication
   mechanism in place instead of closing the site?  Our advice to date
   has been that even "This site contains adult material ... Click here
   if you are over 18" may constitute a reasonable effort.

4) Why are you, as the ISP, taking responsibility for this?  If you have
   received a complaint, why not notify the client of the laws they may
   have broken, and make suggestions to them on how they could avoid
   breaking these laws?

5) Is Omen also censoring newsgroups, email, external web pages and
   other sites that may breach this particular provision of the Act?
   Do you intend to take responsibility for all other material on
   your site that may (in your opinion) breach the Act?

In general, from the information currently available in this
thread, it seems as though Omen has kicked an adult off because
he/she chose to place adult material on their web site, without
any notice to the client before hand that this would be a problem.

If this is the case, then the user may be justified in placing
a complaint to WAIA.

MM


> > Needless to say, this turkey just signed the death warrant to his account.
> > Our System Admin will clean the site out first time at work when he returns
> > fresh from the weekend.
> 
> > Sorry he can't do it right now, and as much as I'd like to see it killed,
> > but he's not here at the moment and he spits his dummy if anyone screws
> > with root access.
> 
> > As a final word, please forward complaints to either abuse or postmaster;
> > root  is a dead account for email.
> 
> > You may count this as a "kill". :)
> 
> > Postmaster
> > Omen Internet
>