GILC Action Alert

[Rigo Wenning <wenning2@rz.uni-sb.de>]

Hier ist das GILC - Statement zum Versuch der australischen 
ABA die Provider in Teilen für Inhalte verantwortlich
zu machen. FITUG hat ebenfalls unterzeichnet, ist in dieser 
Version aber noch nicht enthalten.

Rigo


>Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 16:27:02 +1100
>From: Michael Baker <mbaker@pobox.com>
>Subject: GILC Action Alert
>To: gilc-plan@gilc.org
>Cc: action-global@eff.org
>Reply-To: gilc-plan@gilc.org
>Errors-To: list-admin@gilc.org
>
>Here is the final version of the GILC Action Alert.  Please forward to
>appropriate lists and newsgroups.  I've already sent it to action@eff.org.
>
>Michael.
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                            GILC ACTION ALERT
>
>           SIGN PETITION AGAINST AUSTRALIAN CONTENT REGULATION
>
>    AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS WILL MAKE ISPs RESPONSIBLE FOR
>                          POLICING ONLINE CONTENT
>
>           PLEASE REDISTRIBUTE THIS ALERT IN APPROPRIATE PLACES
>                         BUT NOT AFTER 30 AUGUST 97
>
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>CONTENTS:
>  Background
>  The Petition
>  How to Sign the Petition
>  GILC Members Issuing this Alert
>
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>  
>BACKGROUND
>
>In the same week that President Clinton announced that the US
>Government would not be introducing any new government controls over
>Internet content the Australian government announced the opposite
>intention.  Members of the Global Internet Liberty Campaign have
>warned that the Australian proposals would threaten free speech and
>place an impossible burden on Australian Internet service providers.
>Details of the Australian proposal are available online at:
>
>  http://www.dca.gov.au/policy/fwork_4_online_svces/framework.htm
>
>Electronic Frontiers Australia, a founder member of GILC, has launched
>a campaign against these proposals and is urging all who are concerned
>about online freedoms to make a submission to the Australian
>Government.  Details about EFA's campaign are available on the Web at:
>
>  http://www.efa.org.au/Campaigns/contreg.html
>
>The undersigned members of GILC are supporting the campaign by EFA and
>call on all concerned for online freedoms to sign the following
>petition.
>
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>THE PETITION
>
>This petition will be presented to the Australian Senate later this
>year. The Senate President has already approved the presentation of
>"electronic petitions".
>
>"To the Honourable the President and Members of the Senate in the
>Parliament assembled:
>
>The undersigned Petitioners respectfully request that the Senate
>recognises:
>
>    * That, for many Australians, the Internet plays a vital role as 
>      a means of communication, a vehicle for the expression of ideas
>      and opinions, and a source of information. 
>
>    * That the Internet is a complex, global environment where
>      traditional concepts of regulation are not easily applied or
>      enforced. 
>
>    * That there is a need to make a clear distinction between the 
>      responsibility of those who produce and publish content and that
>      of intermediaries such as carriers and Internet Service Providers. 
>
>    * That the full potential for development of the Internet in
>      Australia  will depend on governments recognising rights to
>      freedom of speech taken for granted by other societies. 
>
>    * That the emerging information industries should not be burdened 
>      with unnecessary and poorly conceived regulation. 
>
>The petitioners therefore call upon the Senate to reject any attempt by
>the Government to impose additional censorship on the Internet."
>
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>HOW TO SIGN THE PETITION
>
>The petion is available at:
>
>  http://www.efa.org.au/Campaigns/petition.html
>
>Full details on how to sign the petition are available on the petition
>web page.
>
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>GILC MEMBERS ISSUING THIS ALERT
>
>American Civil Liberties Union <http://www.aclu.org>
>
>Association des Utilisateurs d'Internet <http://www.aui.fr>
>
>Community - The Computer Communicators Association
><http://www.community.org.uk/>
>
>Cyber-Rights & Cyber-Liberties (UK)
><http://www.leeds.ac.uk/law/pgs/yaman/yaman.htm>
>
>Derechos Human Rights <http://www.derechos.org>
>
>Digital Citizens Foundation Netherlands (DB-NL) <www.db.nl>
>
>EFF-Austin <http://www.eff-austin.org>
>
>Electronic Frontiers Australia <http://www.efa.org.au>
>
>Fronteras Electronicas Espan~a <http://www.arnal.es/free/>
>
>NetAction <http://www.netaction.org>
>
>Quintessenz (Austria) <http://www.quintessenz.at>
>
>Xs4all <http://www.xs4all.nl>
>
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>--
>Dr Michael Baker,          EFA Board Member,         ISOC-AU Founder Member
>PO Box 5, Flaxley, SA 5153, Australia Ph:+618 8388 8439 Fax: +618 8262 3633
><mailto:mbaker@pobox.com>                        <http://pobox.com/~mbaker>
>For more info: EFA <http://www.efa.org> ISOC-AU <http://www.isoc-au.org.au>
>
>