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ken25
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Posted - Jan 28 2000 : 9:29PM
OK i know it's not DVD talk but every one should read it.
Friday January 28th 2000.
The Australian Broadcasting Authority has began taking down x rated sites with in Australia.There is now NO freedom of speech in my country

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DGF
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Posted - Jan 29 2000 : 4:49AM
Yes, Australia recently joined the exclusive club of countries that actively censor the internet; a club that includes countries such as China and Saudi Arabia.
Personally, it wouldn't be so bad if it were just porn that is censored but they also reserve the power to censor any objectionable speech. That means the government may just shut down a website with someone expressing objectionable views.
Try as they may though, they can't censor websites outside of Australia though. They could only isolate their internet from the rest of the world's but they won't as if they do Australia would become a poor country by missing out on the global internet.
Perhaps you should try to copy the US Bill of Rights. You should model your government on the US and not the UK, you'd have more freedom that way.
Saki
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Posted - Jan 29 2000 : 9:40AM
Bill of Rights or no, that hasn't stopped serious attempts of censorship in here in the United States. It's often disguised and promoted as protection of children and the community from perversion. It's amazing how much you can restict Freedom of Speech by demostrating that something is dangerous to children.
Saki
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DGF
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Posted - Jan 30 2000 : 3:03AM
True, attempts. But they were thrown out because "protecting the children" does not justify restricting freedom of speech. It was our constitution that made such Congressional laws invalid and saved us.
By the way the Congressmen all knew this, they knew it wouldn't pass constitutional muster so even Congressmen that disagreed with the law voted for it so they could claim to be "protecting the children".
Also I find it funny how all this is really unnecessary. All that would be needed is a kind of adult domain say .xxx or .red .
All adult or "objectionable" content could be there. That way a browser could easily block the adult sites to "protect the children" while at the same time not restricing freedom to anyone.
Of course this won't be done, because the Congress likes complicated things and the government is crazy to get its hands on the internet and start regulating and taxing it.



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