From: jamesd@netcom.com (James A. Donald)
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 94 08:55:54 PDT
To: mgream@acacia.itd.uts.edu.au (Matthew Gream)
Subject: Re: Cyberspace is by nature crime-free
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Matthew Gream writes
> > >  - sedition
  
I wrote:
> > Not a crime.
> 
> Is in Australia, probably in other countries as well. Naturally
> there are going to be problems with international aspects of
> crime in this respect, jurisdictions and so on, but those are
> only technicalities -- the crime can easily occur in a localised
> environment.

Witchcraft is also illegal in Australia.  When was the last 
prosecution for sedition?

During the many decades I lived in Australia there was never
a prosecution for sedition, and there was plenty of sedition.

Has the place turned totalitarian since I left?



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