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A couple of thoughts have been floating around my head for a while
now.  The primary one concerns ISPs that charge by time.

If all Internet accesses are supposed to go through a Government-run
proxy server to filter content, doesn't this mean that users on
time-charged ISPs will be charged extra due to the slowing of data?
Could this be an avenue to mount a class-action challenge to the new
laws?

On a slightly related note, have the new recommmendations to expand
ASIO powers been passed as law yet?  I was under the impression that
they were still being 'refined', but the EFA website states that they
have been passed.

Are the powers of Government bodies determined by committee, or must
they go through the standard procedures for generating legislation?
Are intelligence bodies exempt from the usual legislative process,
given that ASIO reports to a Parliamentary committee and ASIS is
apparently only accountable to the Minister for Foreign Affairs and
the Prime Minister (and occasionally, the Inspector-General of
Intelligence and Security)?


                     David M Jacobs
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