[LINK] Red Alert: AFP to Have Powers to Dictate Content Filtering

[Roger Clarke]

[The Government has flung an atrocious Bill into the Parliament 
today.  The PRC and Burma can learn from these people.]

[It's brand new, because it wasn't in the Bills List as at close of 
business last night:
http://parlinfoweb.aph.gov.au/piweb/browse.aspx?path=legislation%3Ecurrent+bills+by+portfolio

[Get the word out onto lists quickly, to head off capitulation by 
Labor, and to get Coalition backbenchers worried about yet more PR 
disasters.]


Communications Legislation Amendment (Crime or Terrorism Related 
Internet Content) Bill 2007
http://parlinfoweb.aph.gov.au/piweb/view_document.aspx?ID=2686&TABLE=BILLS

The key clause:
If the AFP Commissioner has reason to believe that Internet content 
is crime or terrorism related content, the ACMA must notify the 
content to Internet service providers so that the providers can deal 
with the content in accordance with procedures specified in an 
industry code or industry standard (for example, procedures for the 
filtering, by technical means, of such content).

crime or terrorism related content means ANY OF "[content that] 
encourages, incites or induces the commission of a Commonwealth 
offence", "[its] purpose ... is to to facilitate the commission of a 
Commonwealth offence", OR "[content that] has, or is likely to have, 
the effect of facilitating the commission of a Commonwealth offence"

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Visiting Professor in the eCommerce Program      University of Hong Kong
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