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  From: Brian Astill <brian.astill@flinders.edu.au>
  To  : linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
  Date: Sat, 04 Sep 1999 11:36:59 +0900

Re: Australian Censorship

At 14:42 2/09/99 +0930, David Lloyd wrote:
>This censorship is not aimed at protecting children. Children, once
>again, serve as essentially defenceless hostages to hide the real
>reason. I sincerely believe the real reason is to stop adults from
>viewing X Rated material.

I think you understate the problem.
In totalitarian states they do five things:
Remove private gun ownership,
Eliminate intellectuals (imprisoned, killed, 'reorientated'),
Subjugate scientists and technologists to state (political) needs,
Enforce rigourous censorship (including isolating the population from
'sinful, revisionist' access to global information, and
Use public media as propaganda machines (which among other things endorse
the above actions).

Anyone noticed a trend of any kind in Australia?
Hmmm? .....


Brian



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