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

[Marghanita da Cruz]

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

This is probably more to bring us in line with the US....see
<http://mailman.anu.edu.au/pipermail/link/2007-August/075271.html>


> 
> [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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