Regulating the Net in Australia: Firing Blanks or Silver Bullets?
AbstractThis paper considers some recent attempts to regulate the Internet in Australia in the areas of broadcasting, gambling and cybercrime. The problems posed by the Internet are serious, but this paper argues that recent attempts to tailor specific laws to deal with these problems have proved fairly futile in providing an effective remedy. They may have achieved certain political goals, but they have done so at a significant cost. More care and consideration is needed in crafting appropriate laws, and more emphasis needs to be placed on extra-legal methods of control. |