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  From: Mark Newton <newton@atdot.dotat.org>
  To  : Kirsty Rae <kirsty@ambassador.process9.com.au>
  Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 12:22:05 +0930 (CST)

Re: Opinions on New Internet Bill (While I am still allowed to express them)

Kirsty Rae wrote:

 > However, I don't believe the legislation will be unworkable forever.
 > Technology is simply like that *grin* (probably why I have any interest in
 > this industry at all).

When they come up with artificial intelligence powerful enough to
distinguish a bomb recipe from a copy of the constitution, a nude on
an art gallery site from a nude on a porn site, and a Rabelais article
on shoplifting from criminal instruction, I'm sure they'll dedicate
its use to something a lot more important than trawling through the
net looking for smut.

The Canadian CRTC report puts a financial estimate on th question of
how to categorize the web for content filtering purposes, and suggests
they'd need a budget in execess of $100 million per annum to do it,
and even then they wouldn't do it right.

I don't think we'll have workable blocking software in my lifetime.
I'll buy a six-pack of Lemon Ruski for the first person who comes to
me with evidence that I'm wrong.

    - mark

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