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Hmmmmm
David, G4EBT wrote a long bulletin attacking, with some sadness, the content
of bulletins originating in Australia.
In particular he makes reference to obscenities in those bulletins.
It is interesting that none of the bulletins of which he speaks have reached
me in Sydney. They would certainly not pass through my BBS un-noticed as I
have a rather tight M_FILTER in use here.
Many words that I trap are used on TV including UK TV. So I am at a loss to
understand where they got to. I would have to assume that because they did not
arrive here they must have been forwarded out on the internet.
I do receive by HF bulletins that have been forwarded out by internet.
They certainly did not re-enter Australia by HF.
However in one point David made was that there are no regulations regarding
message content. This is not stricly true, although I acknowledge that actual
words cannot be a cause for ACA action. There is however a prohibiyion on
using the amateur bands to harriss any person.
There is a famous case of an amateur that went of the rails and got a six
month term at Her Majesties Pleasure.
The reason that there are no rules regarding particular words is that
they are in use on TV. There are a number of court cases where the judges
have held that those words are in common use and do not constitute an offence
so it would be impossible for the ACA to get a conviction.
I am fairly certain that the same would apply in the UK.
Could the RA get a conviction if the defence argued that the same language was
heard the previous night on the BBC or ITA ?
Just to set the record straight I am opposed to such language on amateur
radio as I believe we should not lower ourselves to the standard of the
radio and television media.
73 Barry VK2AAB
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