Request for the BEST and WORST of the Internet to show the Senate

[Tom Worthington]

The Select Committee on Community Standards Relevant to the Supply of Services 
Utilising Electronic Technologies has asked me to participate in a Public 
Seminar on the Regulation of Bulletin Board Systems 4 April 1995, Committee 
Room 2S3, Parliament House, Canberra.

The committee is making available an Internet connection to enable witnesses 
who wish to do so to demonstrate what can be obtained from computer links. 
The ACS is not "pro" or "anti" network regulation, so much as interested in 
assisting the community make choices on the use of technology for community 
benefit. To that end I propose to show the "best" and the "worst" of the 
Internet.

I invite members of the networking community to suggest the "best" and the 
"worst" of the Internet. That is the material you consider of the highest 
quality and the most socially worthwhile, or that of the least value and 
possibly harmful (in particular for children).

As an example of the "best" the Internet I would nominate: URL: 
http://telebobot.mech.uwa.edu.au/

Please include your name, e-mail and physical address with your suggestion. 
These details will be included in the presentation to the Senate and be part 
of the public Parliamentary record. Anonymous suggestions or those without a 
physical address will not be accepted.

Please note that this is not an invitation for submissions or comment on the 
issues censorship or pornography. Just send one "best" and/or one "worst" 
and the URL of the Internet resource/s. If you consider no Internet material 
"good" then don't send a "best", if you consider none "bad" then don't send 
a "worst".

The ACS/EFA Joint Task Force on Freedom in Cyberspace will release a draft 
report soon, via the newsgroups ACS.ORG.ACS & AUS.ORG.EFA. You are welcome 
to discuss the issues in those forums.

The contact for the Senate committee is: Michael McLean, Acting Secretary, 
Select Committee on Community Standards Relevant to the Supply of Services 
Utilising Electronic Technologies, Parliament House, Canberra, ACT 2600 
Australia   Fax: +61 6 2775809

I will request permission of the Senate for the transcript of the seminar to 
be made available on the Internet.



Tom Worthington, Director of the Community Affairs Board, Fax:   +61 6 2496419
Australian Computer Society Inc., G.P.O. Box 446, Canberra A.C.T. 2601, 
Australia  E-mail: tomw@acslink.net.au	Home page: 
http://www.acslink.net.au/~tomw/