Free speech - front lines in Australia - [personal@bernardgaynor.com.au: Update: battle for free speech]

[juan.g71 at gmail.com (juan)]

On Thu, 8 Sep 2016 22:41:45 +0000 (UTC)
jim bell <jdb10987 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Sounds like Australia needs the equivalent of America's First
> Amendment guarantees of freedom of speech and press.But then again,
> that's the same problem Britain has: Â They don't have a written
> Constitution.     


	"... But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or
	another, this much is certain â?? that it has either authorized
	such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to
	prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist. " Spooner -
	1867

	http://jim.com/treason.htm

	




J.


> Â  Â  Jim Bell
> 
>       From: Nadine Earnshaw <nadine at iinet.net.au>
>  To: cypherpunks at lists.cpunks.org 
>  Sent: Thursday, September 8, 2016 3:27 PM
>  Subject: Re: Free speech - front lines in Australia -
> [personal at bernardgaynor.com.au: Update: battle for free speech] 
> Â 
> No the issue is public vs private speech.
> There is also a difference between publicly stating an opinion and
> being abusive. this is what we are talking about legislatively
>