🚀 go-pugleaf

What next, are the G men going to visit the mail exchanges and read my
letters for offensive material? I am starting to get this feeling that the
country is turning into a dictatorship. No wonder they had a gun buy back
scheme.
DD


yvonne <ycooke@enter.net.au> wrote in message
news:374CD85A.476AD9A5@enter.net.au...
>
>
> Rod Speed wrote:
> >
> > Daniel Grimwood <reaper@crystal.uwa.edu.au> wrote
> > in message news:7ii959$6u2$2@enyo.uwa.edu.au...
> > > In aus.org.efa Langdon Alger <noname@nospam.com> wrote:
> >
> > >> What's the real big deal?
> >
> > > Send an explicit email to a group of your mates about your dirty
weekend
> > > with your girlfriend.  The government computer will see offensive
words in
> > > your email sent to an email list, so someone in Canberra will have to
read
> > > your email to see if it is offensive.  Do you want others reading your
email?
> >
> > The recently passed legislation doesnt provide for that.
>
> ABC online news: "*Obscene e-mail may become illegal*
>
> The Federal Government has revealed some private emails could be
> illegal under new Internet censorship laws if they include obscene
> material.
>
> The new legislation, passed yesterday, empowers the Australian
> Broadcasting Authority to order the removal or blocking of online
> material which it deems offensive.
>
> Communications Minister Richard Alston said some private e-mails
> were personal transactions which would not lend themselves to
> prying by third parties.
>
> But he says some e-mails, for example those sent to a group, would
> not be regarded as normal e-mails under the new legislation and
> therefore could be illegal." (copied from ABC site)
>
> Another issue is a case where one member of a mailing list thought your
> e-mail was obscene, and formalised a complaint, while the rest of the
> group thought your e-mail was merely irreverent wit or satire.