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Dateline: 3 February 2000 Early Edition Read The Previous Edition A permanent link to this page can be found here
Editorial
First up some rumour from the streets -- apparently one of our "investigative
journalism" TV programs is presently researching a story on one of the country's
few Internet-based monopolies. This program is not known for simply dishing
out dry boring facts -- they generally don't bother covering a story unless
it has a degree of sizzle so the results could rock the industry a little.
I notice in today's headlines (below) that AOL is being sued for allegedly deliberately
disabling access to its competitors services when AOL's software is installed.
Seems we had exactly the same problem with one of this country's largest ISPs
at one stage but nobody sued. Are we too easy-going I wonder?
Finally -- it's good to see that our politicians and law-makers are the
only cyber-dullards in this part of the world. Australia's controversial
anti Net-smut laws have been proven completely ineffective after one of
the sites which would have contravened that law simply moved its hosting
to the USA -- where it continues operation outside the reach of the
prudish politicians. I reiterate my call (albeit I know it's falling on
deaf ears) for New Zealand to take the reins in this area and kick off
an international move to establish an international convention of laws which
each signatory would agree to enforce across borders.
Unfortunately I fear that those in the Beehive will be far to busy patting
themselves on the back for the wonderful advancement of local arts and culture
that knobling TVNZ's move to digital TV will supposedly produce.
As always, your comments are gladly received.
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