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yvonne <ycooke@enter.net.au> wrote in message news:377A99D7.F4618E37@enter.net.au...
> Rod Speed wrote
>> Irene Graham <rene@__pobox.com> wrote

>>> [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"

Wrong, the legislation hasnt changed much during the entire
farago of mindless hysterical hyperventilating on all sides.

> - the uninformed opinions of the shock jock
> playmates of the talkback radio shows

Yeah, yeah, its all an evil conspiracy.

> and uninformed opinions of the crank letters to the editors of local papers,

That aint what drives legislation.

> while completely ignoring the reams of material
> articulating the informed opinions of the leaders of
> the Internet industry, supported by the online netusers.

Yep, no matter how much posturing they did, how much they chucked
tantrums, how often they stamped their tiny feet and demanded that
Alston be sacked, it made absolutely no difference what so ever.

And as far as the EFA is concerned, they've been doing that sort of thing
for what must be close to a decade now, and have shot themselves in
the foot time after time after time and the govt just ignores them now.

What actually happened is that some pollys decided that there
was no good reason why the net should be complete open slather,
no matter how stupid it was to do that, and they have carried on
regardless attempting to do what wont work, cant work and is a
complete waste of time. Nothing new about that with stupid pollys.
True in spades of say cannabis and even grog laws at times.