Re:Security... (Score 1)

If the Australian government's opinion was such you would be right to dump on them. Anyone silly enough to start sprouting comparisons between this country and China just show they don't know what they are talking about. Its like saying that just because the F.B.I has "Omnivore" the US government reads everyone's email and because the U.S has tried to stifle the export of crypto software the U.S is trying to keep the web insecure and subject to U.S imperialist ambitions! The reality is more complex and the media has failed to put things in persceptive. The amendments are directed more at trying to create a criminal dimension in the so-called "electronic frontier" than anything else. Penalising the sending of viruses and spam by email is the real target of the legislation. In Australia, as a nation, we are trying to create a statutory regime to hit the "bad guys" of the web, those bastards who infringe your right to use the net (e.g virus writers, spamers, privacy cheats, etc). Now I will concede that, due to the balance of power in the Senate being held by a strict Catholic, has led to a couple of silly pieces of legislation their practical effect is around zero. Any web user can assure you that access to the web,including the flood of foreign porn and garbage, is as unrestricted as before the last round of legislation. Maybe as users we will have to adapt to the idea that "information must be free" is a great slogan but it has to be tempered by twisting good old J S Mill around to say "information must be free, as long as being free it doesn't infringe everyone else's right to information". Thanks for your time.