BAD NEWS :( Government amendments reinforce Big Browser

[Brian Morrison]

On Thu, 8 Jun 2000 12:03:25 +0200, Adam Atkinson (ETL) wrote:

>> "telecommunication system" means any system (including the apparatus
>> comprised in it) which exists (whether wholly or partly in the
>> United Kingdom or elsewhere) for the purpose of facilitating the
>> transmission of communications by any means involving the use of
>> electrical or electro-magnetic energy.
>
>This would appear to include drums, church bells, bonfires on hilltops,
>dogs barking, classified ads, handerchiefs in back pockets (cf.
>San Francisco gay bars, apparently), red lights in windows, and
>any number of other things.
>

Drums and church bells rely on sound waves, which are not
electro-magnetic. Classified ads are public already aren't they?
-- 
Brian Morrison                                  bdm@fenrir.demon.co.uk
              do you know how far this has gone?
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