🚀 go-pugleaf

In <4a5enn$t3o@dingo.cc.uq.oz.au>, ycooke@mail.peg.apc.org (y cooke) writes:
>maddison@connexus.apana.org.au (David S. Maddison) wrote:
>
>
>>"Bomb built using plans on Internet"
>
>>from "The Age", Melbourne, 6 Dec 1995
>
>[case details deleted]

<snip>

>>The magistrate, Ms Jill Crowe, said it was incredible such material
>>was available on the Internet. She said governement committees
>>concerned about pornography on the Internet would certainly be worried
>>about the dissemination of information on how to build bombs.
>
<snip>
>
>Another issue is her phrase "for all to see".  In the time I have been
>using the net, I have not yet found a recipe for making bombs.  That
>is because I, along with 99% of other net users, was not particularly
>interested.  Concerned non-netusers would gain the impression that
>whenever one sat down to an online computer, one is assailed with
>pornographic images and recipes for unsocial practices!. 

And I suppose these things are not available anywhere else? No one ever
finds things in libraries, bookshops, magazines? No, of course not. Only on the
Net.

It would be interesting to make a survey of Oz public libraries and see how
much pron, bomb recipes, and what-have-you is available there. Maybe we
should ban libraries, too?

Bah!

TTYL,

Marjorie