David,
If the best you (and the ABA) can do in defence of the BSA is pull out
the "anyone who criticises us/censorship is a child pornographer" line
("asking for publication of a how to find guide for child pornography",
yeah, right), you're pretty much admitting the indefensibility of
the legislation.
At the risk of repeating myself:
* most of the material dealt with by the ABA is not child pornography.
* the ABA didn't even release details of material found "not
prohibited", let alone the R, X, and RC material that wasn't referred
to the police
* the ABA's options in response to EFA's FOI request included the
ommission of information about anything that had been referred to
police, but they chose not to do that.
> And no matter what legislation there is in Australia, all Australia
> can do is report the finding of child pornography on foreign servers
> to the relevant authorities (and filters) and let them act on it if
> they can or want to.
And which, incidentally, Australians could do *before* the BSA was
passed -- members of the Child Protection Unit of the NSW Police
spoke about that at an IIA seminar I went to back in 1999 -- and could
still do without involving the ABA at all. (Ok, that would mean the
police would have to make decisions about what is worth following up,
but they have to do that anyway when the ABA refers material to them.)
The latest Mr Lizard rant
http://www.mrlizard.com/illegal.html
Danny.
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