BAD NEWS :( Government amendments reinforce Big Browser

[Charles Lindsey]

	On Thu, 8 Jun 2000 11:21:35 +0100
	"Caspar Bowden" <cb@fipr.org> said...

> S.2.1
> "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.
> 
> a) a web-server fits the definition of a telecommunications system in the
> Bill. If not, why not?

It depends on what you mean by "transmission" If it means the same as
"conveyance", or near enough so, then it is OK. The word is certainly
used in that sense in S2(1)"postal-service"(b) and in S8(2)(b).


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