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December 01, 2005
Quaint, it ain't
The notion that anyone could be carted off to jail these days for
sedition seems faintly preposterous -- almost in the same league as being transported as a convict to Australia for nicking someone's hanky. But we're there with the anti-terror laws. Far from taking us back to the 1950s, John Howard seems hell bent on going even further back in time -- to the 1850s, the 1750s ... back to when it was a very serious crime to rubbish the government. What has happened here, that things should have got to this point? The
Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law (
http://www.gtcentre.unsw.edu.au/) provides a detailed guide to the government’s proposals in its publication "
Briefing on sedition offences in the Anti-Terrorism Bill 2005". It's at
http://www.sisr.net/apo/SeditionBriefing05.pdf. Be informed.
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July 02, 2003
Libel cover
Bloggers who republish potentially libellous information gleaned elsewhere have been protected from being sued by a new court ruling in the US. According to
Online Journalism Review, "
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on June 24th that First Amendment protections against libel will be extended to information that is republished through outlets like e-mail lists and weblogs."
Wired News has the story at
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,59424,00.html.
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Letting the good stuff through
Most of us would be happy to see child pornography blocked online but a too-tight regulatory system would be bad for freedom of speech.
Reporters Without Borders have produced a new report, "
The Internet Under Surveillance Obstacles To The Free Flow Of Information Online", to examine these issues. Vint Cerf's introduction to the 151-page report on the RSF site (
http://www.rsf.org/) states: "Free citizens must exercise due diligence to assure that their governments are not hiding political censorship behind a putative moral facade". Find out about the report at
http://www.rsf.org/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=378report and find the report itself in PDF at
http://www.rsf.org/IMG/pdf/doc-2236.pdf. You can also read country-specific sections.
Australia's is at
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=7233.
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