William and all,
William, something you left out of your selection of Excerpts here
is the amendment to the Australian bill regarding offensive content.
I am providing it here for clarification purposes. It sort of puts this
very good bill in it's proper perspective.
"For instance, a last-minute amendment to the
law called for "recognized alternative
access-prevention arrangements." The
association lobbied heavily for the amendment,
which could give ISPs a way to satisfy their
legal obligations by offering their subscribers
filtering software, or by offering different levels
of
commercial service based on varying amounts of
content filtering at the ISP level, Coroneos said.
How this would work in practice has yet to be
defined. "
So as everyone can see clearly this law is not all that bad in
reality, although a bit unecessary...
William X. Walsh wrote:
> http://www.wired.com/news/news/slashdot/politics/story/20496.html
>
> "Under a new national law passed Wednesday, Siggs, along with more
> than 600 other ISP owners, is obligated to prevent pornographic or
> other online content deemed indecent from reaching end users."
>
> and later :
>
> "The Broadcasting Services Amendment, or Online Services Act, is one
> of the most ambitious efforts to date by any democratic government to
> control access to online content accessed within its borders."
>
> --
> William X. Walsh
> General Manager, DSo Internet Services
> Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax:(209) 671-7934
>
> "The fact is that domain names are new and have unique
> characteristics, and their status under the law is not yet clear."
> --Kent Crispin (June 29th, 1999)
Regards,
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Jeffrey A. Williams
CEO/DIR. Internet Network Eng/SR. Java/CORBA Development Eng.
Information Network Eng. Group. INEG. INC.
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