Professor Strossen said the push for Internet censorship was no different to campaigns conducted throughout history to restrict access to new communications mediums and, for the sake of democracy and free speech, should be nipped in the bud. Civil Liberties Union president Professor Nadine Strossen called on people to pressure the government to reverse the law because it was vague and susceptible to injection with the values of those enforcing them. Professor Nadine Strossen, president of the American Civil Liberties Union, said Australia had been harsher in its Internet censorship than most Western countries. Meanwhile, American ISPs would rejoice as some of Australia's Internet business moved offshore, she predicted. The initial basic costs for software and hardware are the same for large and small companies.
Profitability is, if they are lucky, one or two per cent.
In other words, the censorship rules could easily force 500 of them into bankruptcy. In talking to the Internet software industry, it would seem that, even if all service providers were to comply with every rule that the Government puts in place, the effectiveness of the new legislation would be less than 10 per cent. The IIA is looking for funding to commission an independent study of the content filtering solutions available, but Mr Coroneos said the study would have to be seen to be completely independent of the Government and anti-censorship lobby groups. Bill, it was reported today. ABA deputy chairman Mr Gareth Grainger attended the first meeting in New York in February with a progressive reputation based on an ABA proposal for rating sites.