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Article #28Re: Protest Rallies - new Aust. Net Censorship Law - Friday May 28
From: peeby
Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 00:00
Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 00:00
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Daniel Grimwood <reaper@crystal.uwa.edu.au> wrote: > In aus.org.efa yvonne <ycooke@enter.net.au> wrote: > >> Daniel Grimwood <reaper@crystal.uwa.edu.au> wrote > >>> 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. > > > 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) > > That's the bit, "those sent to a group". They don't go into how big a > "group" is, whether or not an email list of five of your friends is a > "group". I thought they were talking about newsgroups. I've heard people confuse email and posts to newsgroups. I don't think the pollies really understand the technology. -- peeby
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fd95d,47854c2fc05a2f X-Google-Attributes: gidfd95d,public X-Google-Thread: 107a4d,47854c2fc05a2f X-Google-Attributes: gid107a4d,public X-Google-Thread: f5379,47854c2fc05a2f X-Google-Attributes: gidf5379,public X-Google-Thread: fa7f6,47854c2fc05a2f X-Google-Attributes: gidfa7f6,public X-Google-Thread: f4bcb,47854c2fc05a2f X-Google-Attributes: gidf4bcb,public X-Google-Thread: 102c27,47854c2fc05a2f X-Google-Attributes: gid102c27,public X-Google-Thread: 10df0c,47854c2fc05a2f X-Google-Attributes: gid10df0c,public X-Google-Thread: 101ee4,47854c2fc05a2f X-Google-Attributes: gid101ee4,public From: pbh@pop.netspace.net.au (peeby) Subject: Re: Protest Rallies - new Aust. Net Censorship Law - Friday May 28 Date: 1999/05/28 Message-ID: <1dshqn0.vyj7ykpgj2obN@dialup-t1-2.melbourne.netspace.net.au> X-Deja-AN: 482758829 References: <374dc3e6.3308664@news.bit.net.au> <374c9a8d.307578@news.ozemail.com.au> <7ii959$6u2$2@enyo.uwa.edu.au> <7iiac5$puu$1@news.mel.aone.net.au> <374CD85A.476AD9A5@enter.net.au> <7iimck$d5c$1@enyo.uwa.edu.au> X-Complaints-To: abuse@netspace.net.au X-Trace: otis.netspace.net.au 927821357 30247 210.15.250.2 (27 May 1999 16:09:17 GMT) Organization: Netspace NNTP-Posting-Date: 27 May 1999 16:09:17 GMT Newsgroups: aus.org.efa,aus.censorship,bne.general,aus.net.policy,aus.legal,aus.politics,aus.music,aus.books,aus.films,aus.students