this reminds me of the early day of the internet when the aol users
first starting appearing and all the elite net users where irate about
the quality of the net going downhill because it was being flooded with
aol users. nothing has changed....


Vic


Charlie McCormack [charlie§mccormack.net.au] wrote:
> Errrm, that would be the free speech act for one, then there is the trade
> practises act, and a few others you can learn for yourself. 
> 
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: dns-bounces+charlie=mccormack.net.au§dotau.org [mailto:dns-
> > bounces+charlie=mccormack.net.au§dotau.org] On Behalf Of Lea de Groot
> > Sent: Monday, 4 September 2006 8:42 PM
> > To: .au DNS Discussion List
> > Subject: Re: [DNS] dineonline.com.au
> > 
> > Charlie McCormack wrote:
> > > There are real world laws that prevent this kind of restriction, it will
> > > never happen, at least not in the next 10 years, governments have more
> > > pressing issues, such as hospitals, transport, aging population etc.
> > 
> > Wow! Which laws cover this?
> > I can't think of which it would be.
> > 
> > I wonder how far the premise of 'public space' can be pushed?
> > Companies can rent real public spaces, but still be limited in what they
> > are allowed to do there, IIRC. The internet can be thought of as public
> > space, particularly given that the govt control the distribution of it,
> > so it isn't too hard a step to have it treated in the same way.
> > 
> > Lea
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