🚀 go-pugleaf

On-line Services (online@s054.aone.net.au) tapped out:
: For the information of those on the aus.org.efa, aus.org.acs, and to
: warm your hearts, aus.censorship newsgroups.

At last! Thank you :)
: ______________________________
: News Release
: 
: NR 69/1997
: 
: ABA Chairman welcomes White House
: announcement on Internet
: 
: 
: "An American policy position was essential following the
: demise of the Communications Decency Act in the U.S.
: Supreme Court," Mr Webb said.

isn't it great the way governments seem so keen to ignore the decisions of
the judicary. Thats not to say that there isn't _sometimes_ a role fo
legislation but when the US Supreme Court (essentialy unanimously) slams
the CDA and indeed the whole idea of net censorship, the government does
seem like a spoilt child when it says that it didnt like the decision so
instead will just make up a whole new bunch of laws.

: 
: "President Clinton's strategy of enforcing existing child
: pornography and obscenity laws in cyberspace, endorsing
: the deployment of blocking software and Net content rating
: systems and improving parental education about how to use
: such technologies at home closely mirrors the ABA's approach
: over the past 18 months," he said.
: 
Funny - the latest guidelines are hardly about enforcing current child
porn or obsecnity laws. They look to me like an attept to apply australian
censorship laws to a global medium.
: 

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Randyte (Heath Gibson)                    c9416574@alinga.newcastle.edu.au

"Just as the strength of the Internet is chaos, so the strength of our
 liberty depends upon the chaos and cacophony of the unfettered speech
 the First Amendment protects."
              			 _ACLU_v_Reno_

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