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Mon, 28 Apr 2008

It's mine, not yours!

Information wants to be free.

That is a fairly common saying 'round the 'Net.

And, as I've grown up with it repeated enough, it is something that I think - more and more - is an good way to function. Not just at a country level but organisationally and interpersonally too.

When you release more information, you gain more trust.

So it is somewhat amusing to me that a parlimentry enquiry, ostensibly into the use of the word fuck and cunt on TV notes:

Submissions become committee documents and are made public only after a decision by the Committee. Persons making submissions must not release them without the approval of the Committee. Submissions are covered by parliamentary privilege but the unauthorised release of them is not.

So, if I were to put my submission up on as a blog entry I'm breaking the law. Stupid.

There might be some good reasons to keep a submission confidential (off the top of my head, refers to minors by name; commerically sensitive) but if the submitting party wants to make it public there should be nothing that prevents that.

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Anthony Towns wrote at 2008-07-03 11:39:

I looked into this a few years ago -- turns out if you publish it yourself you lose the benefits of parliamentary privelege, but it's otherwise fine. See http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/blog/2004/04/10.

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