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Re: EFA - Australian Net Censorship Bill passed by Parliament

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From: yvonne
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 00:00

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Rod Speed wrote:
> 
> Irene Graham <rene@__pobox.com> wrote in message news:37903277.28373874@news.bit.net.au...
> 
> > [The Bill had previously been passed by the Senate and was passed by
> > the House of Reps on the evening on 30 June following the Government
> > gagging further debate. Opposition (ALP) and the one Independent member
> > of the House voted against it. The legislation takes effect 1 Jan 2000.]
> 
> Clearly the stamping of massed tiny feet had absolutely no effect what so ever.
> 

The passing of the bill is evidence that the government took lots of
notice of the "massed tiny feet" - the uninformed opinions of the shock
jock playmates of the talkback radio shows and uninformed opinions of
the crank letters to the editors of local papers, while completely
ignoring the reams of material articulating the informed opinions of the
leaders of the Internet industry, supported by the online netusers.

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From: yvonne <ycooke@enter.net.au>
Subject: Re: EFA - Australian Net Censorship Bill passed by Parliament
Date: 1999/07/01
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