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hendersn@zeta.org.au (Zed) writes:

>According to the April edition of internet.au, Telstra recommended in
>a submission to the Department of Arts and Communications that
>Australia should have just one Service provider as a means of
>regulating access to the Internet. Given the current level of
>cluelessness at Government level, I wouldn't be surprised if someone
>actually tries to implement it.

Yes, this seems quite compatible with the line that our friend
Phil Argy, mouthpiece for the ACS, put to the senate last year
on behalf of On Australia. (I think they should be renamed, 
"Shit On Australia" :-)

Phil testified that SOA had a wonderful advantage over the Internet in
that if they didn't like what someone posted they could "just remove
it". Imho the obvious implication was that, if SOA were allowed to
monopolise Australia, all this nonsense about "The Internet can't be
censored" would disappear. The senate committee took this hook, line and
sinker.

When pressed, Phil even went so far as to say that the expressions SOA
would be willing to to suppress included "some political statements"!!!

Another good reason to march. I wonder if you'd get sued if you took
the Telstra "T" trademark and applied a blue ribbon to it? Or does
SOA have its own trademark?

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