Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 14:21:40 +1000 From: Danny Yee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Matthew Gaylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: What's new down Under > What's the most pressing free speech issue in AU today? The lunacy being proposed by the South Australian state government - basically, criminal legislation covering what people publish online. Details are at http://www.efa.org.au/Campaigns/sabill.html But free speech is suffering the death by a thousand cuts, and we have no Constitution to unify opposition to it. If you look at my list at http://danny.oz.au/ you'll see we have dozens of organisations and governments involved in censorship - HREOC (which has it in for "hate speech"), the ABA (content regulation of ISPs), mandatory classification and labelling of publications/films/games (OFLC), direct censorship (six state governments), censorship through government coercion of business umbrella organisations (IIA and censorware, ARIA and censorship of music), censorship of expert opinion (ASIC and financial advice), and probably some I don't even know about. EFA http://www.efa.org.au/ is the most active free speech organisation. Watch on Censorship http://www.watchoncensorship.asn.au/ is active on film censorship. And there are civil liberties committees in each state, but they are irregularly active. We lack organisations with the clout and resources of the ACLU and EFF. Danny. ### Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 23:01:14 +1000 From: Danny Yee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Matthew Gaylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: What's new down Under The latest is the attempt to ban online gambling, but I assume you've heard about that. Morons. We've got a really wonderful minister for communications - http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/17941.html is spot on. Danny. ************************************************************************** Subscribe to Freematt's Alerts: Pro-Individual Rights Issues Send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words subscribe FA on the subject line. List is private and moderated (7-30 messages per week) Matthew Gaylor, 2175 Bayfield Drive, Columbus, OH 43229 (614) 313-5722 ICQ: 106212065 Archived at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fa/ **************************************************************************
