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[Copy of email sent to ISOC-AU members list]

The Broadcasting Services Act is the Commonwealth statute that
regulates the content that Australians may host on the Internet. 
Since the passage of amendments to that Act on 28 June 1999, which
commenced in January of the following year, Australian Internet users
have been subject to restrictions on the Australian Internet content
that they may access, that are equivalent to the restrictions in place
on films.

Leaving aside broader questions of the suitability of the film
classification regime, ISOC-AU does not believe that Internet content
should be classified or regulated in the same way as films.  If you
agree that it is time for a review of the Broadcasting Services Act to
re-assess the suitability of the regulation of Internet content
(including textual content) by reference to standards developed for
motion pictures, we ask that you consider protesting on 28 June 2002.

The protest is suitable for participation by anyone who maintains a
Web site, and does not require that you have administrative access to
the server on which the Web site is hosted, nor the ability to run CGI
scripts.  All that is required is that you add the following to the
HTML code of the front page of your Web site on 28 June 2002:

<script language="JavaScript">
<!--
function ProtestPopup()
{
  ProtestPopup = window.open
("http://www.isoc-au.org.au/Regulation/BSAreview.html")
}
window.onload = ProtestPopup()
//-->
</script>

The inclusion of this code will cause visitors to your Web page to be
redirected to ISOC-AU's call for a review of the Broadcasting Services
Act.  At the bottom of that page is a link to close the ISOC-AU window
and to return the user to your Web site, being the page that they were
originally expecting to see.

If you have any difficulties you may contact me for a fuller
explanation.  We hope that as many people as possible will join in and
modify their Web sites in the manner suggested on 28 June 2002, in
order to demonstrate to the Government the depth of concern in the
Internet community about shortcomings in Australia's Internet content
regulation regime.

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