Regulating the Net in Australia: Firing Blanks or Silver Bullets?

Een mooi overzichtsartikel van Robert Chalmers, waarin hij de resultaten van recent ingevoerde internet wetgeving in Australië bespreekt. Chalmers is zeer kritisch over de handhaafbaarheid van een en ander. “Some have argued that “there is wisdom even in an unenforceable law”,but such arguments seem to ignore the potentially deleterious effect of such unenforceable laws on the respect for and functioning of the whole legal system. There are surely better ways of sending signals about appropriate conduct rather than through legislation, and arguably the money consumed through initiation, administration and reporting on the scheme might have been better spent on education or other direct intervention against the relevant problems at an executive level.” Daar ben ik het volledig mee eens. Lees hier het artikel.