[LINK] RFC: IIA Draft Code re Privatised Content Censorship

[Roger Clarke]

IIA Media Release of Mon 14 Apr 08
http://www.iia.net.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=637&Itemid=33

IIA's draft code of practice for internet content providers has been released.

It's at:
http://www.iia.net.au/images/content%20services%20code%20-%20public%20consultation.pdf

"The Draft Code provides industry with guidance
*   handling complaints (Part C),
*   taking-down notified content or content services (Part D )
*   promoting online safety for Australian families (Part E)
*   implementing restricted access systems for some content services 
(Part F); and
*   regulating certain chat services (Part G)."

Okay, I don't actually *know* that it's what the Subject: of this 
email says, but you may need to be both a lawyer and an experienced 
post-modernist analyst to reverse-engineer it.

Are some Link Institute members better qualified than me in such things?

Pretty please?

Presumably Schedule 7 of the Broadcasting Services Act has rather a 
lot to do with it:
http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/bsa1992214/sch7.html

48 pp., but p.1 may be clearer than what follows it ...


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