Wednesday, September 14, 2005

Mcgrath: Awww, Mum, you're embarassing me


How about this guy. He's got his hands on some letters from Glenn Mcgrath's mum, Bev, and threatened her with publishing them on the internet. Bev refused to pay, so he put them up for sale on eBay. What's worse, it's all completely legal.

The ACMA can't do anything, the BSA wields no power to do anything, the government can't do anything, so the police aren't doing anything.

This form of blackmail exemplifies a few things:
- the willingness of some crooks to do anything for a penny
- the deminishing ability to trust and confide in people--when Australians once enjoyed the luxury of iron-clad handshakes
- and the travesty faced by the internet between content regulation and publisher freedom.

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