[14876] in Cypherpunks
Re: Cyberspace is by nature crime-free
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James A. Donald)
Wed Jun 8 12:03:07 1994
From: jamesd@netcom.com (James A. Donald)
To: mgream@acacia.itd.uts.edu.au (Matthew Gream)
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 1994 08:55:49 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <9406080736.AA25638@acacia.itd.uts.EDU.AU> from "Matthew Gream" at Jun 8, 94 05:36:37 pm
Matthew Gream writes
> > > - sedition
I wrote:
> > Not a crime.
>
> Is in Australia, probably in other countries as well. Naturally
> there are going to be problems with international aspects of
> crime in this respect, jurisdictions and so on, but those are
> only technicalities -- the crime can easily occur in a localised
> environment.
Witchcraft is also illegal in Australia. When was the last
prosecution for sedition?
During the many decades I lived in Australia there was never
a prosecution for sedition, and there was plenty of sedition.
Has the place turned totalitarian since I left?
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