--- From: "Mackenzie, Kate" <mackenziekat_private> To: "'Declan McCullagh'" <declanat_private> Subject: Australian Govt changes FOI legislation to hide banned websites Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 14:42:40 +1000 Hi Declan, The Australian Government has basically refused to allow Electronic Frontiers Australia to find out which websites have been banned under the federal web censorship laws introduced in 2000. Government spokespeople generally insist that "they're all hardcore pedophilia" etc, but the issue of which websites are banned has become more interesting since the NSW Police Minister called for websites run by WTO protestors to be shut down. So in order to ward off continuing inquiries from the likes of EFA, the Government is introducing changes to FOI laws. http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,5200940%5E15306%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html cheers, Kate Kate Mackenzie Online Editor The Australian IT http://australianIT.com.au mackenziekat_private ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Like Politech? Make a donation here: http://www.politechbot.com/donate/ Recent CNET News.com articles: http://news.search.com/search?q=declan -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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