Electronic Frontiers Australia has established a web page about the government's Internet Censorship proposed legislation @ http://www.efa.org.au/Campaigns/99.html. The page contains links to the legislation, detailed analysis and comment and actions you can take. A development in this which you will not have read in the media is that the legislation does *not exclude email, so this list is directly affected. There are a number of other implications, especially for content providers. It is draconian. This is all being introduced under the mantle of 'protecting the children' - and Alston has gone so far as to accuse opponents of the legislation of supporting criminal behaviour. However, as analysis has shown, it will not even be successful in preventing access to truly offensive material by minors. Obviously this is being rushed through to placate Harradine, yet any eventual law will have implications down the years. Paul Canning Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alexia.net.au/~www/mhutton/index.html Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
