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Originally Posted by woj
What do "existing laws" have to do with anything? We are NOT discussing whether more or less regulation is needed... we are discussing a theoretical internet without ANY laws as the OP asked in the first post:
"Uncontrolled, unregulated, uncensored, above the law?
You can't choose some laws and not others. Either it's subject to the law or not?"
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Existing laws have
everything to do with the question at hand.
What she's trying to tell you is that all of the really egregious evils that Markham, and others, allege would plague the world, were the internet to be unregulated, are in fact already criminal acts under existing (i.e. non internet specific) law.
To put it another way, you don't need to regulate the internet in order to criminalize fraud, dealing in stolen property, kiddie porn or any other already criminal act.
It's only when you move on to regulating the internet itself that you then open the door to the sort outrageous abuse that the Australian government is presently preparing to implement.
See what I'm saying?
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