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Rod Speed (rodspeed@ozemail.com.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.  Do you want others reading your email?
: 
: That recently passed legislation doesnt provide for them to 'read
: your email to see if its offensive'. The most it does in the email
: situation is have some provision for ONE OF THE RECIPIENTS
: to run snivelling to the ABA. A different matter entirely.
: 

The legislation does give the ABA to pwer to investigate things without a
complaint, or at the direction of the minsiter. Thus, they could go
snooping if they wanted to. But the problem with the people on mailing
lists complaining could come about by wowsers and trouble makers signing
up to lists they want taken out and forwarding on offensive material.

: I doubt they actually give a damn about the distinction.
: And clearly if none of your mates runs snivelling to the
: ABA about whats in it, they wont even care at all.

Ok - but what if I am on a mailing list that swaps erotic fiction? Is it
really any of the governments business? Why shouldn't I be able to swap
fiction with like minded persons? Why should siome wowser be allowed to
sign up to a list and lodge a complaint when they should have known
perfectly well what the list was about?  I can see that this sort
of vague legislation could in fact cause a lot more lists to become closed
subscription rather than open subscription lists.

: Just like the ABA basically told the mindless wowsers to drop dead on their
: demands to have Lolita banned too, in the usual bureaucratic language of course.

The ABA had nothing to do with Lolita.

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