Re: [ProgSoc] Fwd: [STOP] iSEEK and Compensation (fwd)

[David Batterham <drbatter@nospam.progsoc.uts.edu.au>]

On Tue, 18 May 1999, Nick Wilcox wrote:

> How will the legislation work, will yahoo.com.au and such be shutdown and 
> all overseas search engined blocked off??

Yes, I'm interested to know that too. When I first heard about it, I thought 
the "iSEEK" search engine was some kind of clever protest against the 
censorship legislation, ie. an example of how bad things *could* turn out if 
the legislation was passed. Now that I'm starting to believe it's for real, 
I'm completely astonished. That list of blocked dictionary words is so scary
that it's funny.

How about turning the ProgSoc website black in protest, in solidarity with 
EFA? I realise ProgSoc isn't by nature a political organisation, and I 
understand if it can't be done for that reason. But this is kind of an 
important issue, and changing the site's colour couldn't really hurt 
anything...

                                                              David Batterham
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program /n./ 1.  A magic spell cast over a computer allowing it to turn one's
                 input into error messages. (Jargon File 4.0.0)

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