Re: March in support of free speech on the Internet

Groovy Francis (fxl@nospam.pulse.itd.uts.edu.au)
Mon, 29 Apr 1996 10:05:03 +1000 (EST)

Is anyone going? Will progsoc get other students involved?
This is a matter that affects all communications everywhere, will
the SA get involved?

Francis

--
No matter what has been said or done, I am and always will be a 
free-speech people-are-not-dumb-they-can-make-their-own-decisons advocate
   


On Fri, 26 Apr 1996, Danny Yee wrote:


> The NSW government has some truly scary plans for Internet censorship
> (see http://www.efa.org.au/Campaigns/NSWpress.release.html).  They plan
> to ban _any_ material unsuitable for children (anything MA rated or
> above) from _anywhere_ on the Internet (including private email).  They
> are talking about$25 000 and prison sentences, too.  I have spoken by
> phone with someone in the Attorney General's office and this is not a
> joke -- if they can't get the other States to follow suit they intend
> to proceed alone.
> 
> A protest march has been organised by Electronic Frontiers Australia.
> 
> Meet 	12 noon Monday May 27th, Sydney Domain
> 
> March on Parliament House at 1pm
> Wear blue ribbons (symbol of free speech)
> 
> Pass the word around as widely as possible (and turn up yourselves!).
> 
> For more information look at
> 	http://www.efa.org.au/Campaigns/NSWproposal.html
> or
> 	http://www.anatomy.su.oz.au/danny/march/
> or read 
> 	aus.org.efa
> 
> We have no First Amendment and no organisation with the clout of the ACLU,
> so it is important that we stop this before it happens.
> 
> Danny.
>