Subject: Not In Front Of The Children . . . From: dmill@media.co.uk (David Mill) Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 13:08:02 +0100

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Self-regulation, secret dealing, implications for newspapers ...

Too much for me to detail here but those who are interested may have a view
on David Banks' current column at:

http://www.media.co.uk

Excerpt/s:


... plainly, some sort of common code is called for; unless you take the
anti-social view that interactive networks are part of a different world in
which copyright, libel and pornography laws do not apply then the
likelihood is that you accept the need for self-regulation, if only as a
means of discouraging governments from imposing their own draconian
controls on what they see as a frighteningly unfettered resource ...

... how would the editor of a newspaper react to the imposition of controls
on his newspaper's freedom agreed at secret meetings between government and
wholesale distributors? What sort of respect or hope of observance can one
expect from laws that are imposed rather than debated and agreed? ....



David Mill


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