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Article #71Re: Anti censorship activities suggestion
From: Gibson H R
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:00
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:00
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Ian Semmel (isemmel@rocketcomp.com.au) wrote: : I think we should use the net for actions, which has the potential for far : greater impact than people on the street. : : What about picking a day when we all send emails (or hundreds of emails) to : government departments, politicians the media etc protesting about the : legislation. Perhaps the emails could include some pornography for greater : effect. The problem with such an approach is that non-users (who still make up the majority of households) would miss the whole point of the exercise and instead the media/govt would simply use this as justification for cracking down even more on the 'irresposioble and dangerous crminal pedo terrorist hacker drug using bom makers" internet users. -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Randyte (Heath Gibson) "The interest in encouraging freedom of expression in a democratic society outweighs any theoretical but unproven benefit of censorship." from the majority judgement in Reno_v_ACLU, striking down the CDA. ++++++++++http://www2.hunterlink.net.au/~ddhrg/randyte.html+++++++++++++++++++
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fd95d,fa0c4eed42220156 X-Google-Attributes: gidfd95d,public X-Google-Thread: 1083c4,fa0c4eed42220156 X-Google-Attributes: gid1083c4,public X-Google-Thread: fa7f6,fa0c4eed42220156 X-Google-Attributes: gidfa7f6,public X-Google-Thread: 10df0c,fa0c4eed42220156 X-Google-Attributes: gid10df0c,public From: c9416574@alinga.newcastle.edu.au (Gibson H R) Subject: Re: Anti censorship activities suggestion Date: 1999/09/17 Message-ID: <7rsh2a$mdp$2@seagoon.newcastle.edu.au> X-Deja-AN: 526176099 References: <37dfbe8c.17003653@news.ihug.com.au> <ru2o05f0igb80@news.supernews.com> Organization: The University of Newcastle Followup-To: aus.org.efa,aus.censorship,aus.general,aus.politics Newsgroups: aus.org.efa,aus.censorship,aus.general,aus.politics