AW: [LINK] more shonky stats

[Howard Lowndes]

On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 10:44, David Goldstein wrote:

> As for dubious stats - the claimed threat to freedom online
> posed by western governments as has been discussed here often is
> pretty dubious. The threat to children, albeit tiny, is much
> greater than the threat to your freedom.

IMO, the threat to freedom and privacy is far broader, and insidious
than the threat to children; the latter being only a part of the former.

Besides, you appear to be forgetting that this list is primarily AU
based, and we don't get to see Auntie Beebe and Panorama, though when I
was in UK many, many years ago I recall that they were not above
sensationalist journalism even then.

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