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Law making meets technology

By Michael Kirby - posted Wednesday, 5 March 2008


If there are differences, you have to take the differences into account. But for judges to blind their eyes and close their ears to the messages of the Internet today is something that is just not going to happen.

It is very important for all of us, to appreciate that in every nook and cranny of our economic, social, legal and political life, the technology of informatics is going to permeate and is going to play a part in the world of tomorrow - mostly constructive.

We have to be careful in regulation that we don’t impose rules or principles which favour particular or sectional interests and don’t necessarily favour only interests that speak up for their rights and for their interests in the use of the Internet. But none of us now can be immune from the global dynamic of the Internet.

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A final reflection: technology is not enough

We have, I hope, made some progress. It is not good enough to have a great technology. Technology itself is not enough. We have to build a good society - a society with good values.

The full speech is available on YouTube:

1. Judge Michael Kirby's preamble on Regulating the Net (4:33)

2. Judge Michael Kirby's parables on Regulating the Net 1 (10:52)

3. Judge Michael Kirby's parables on Regulating the Net 2 (10:27)

4. Judge Michael Kirby's parables on Regulating the Net 3 (5:37)

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5. Judge Michael Kirby parables on Regulating the Net 4a (8:28)

6. Judge Michael Kirby's parables on Regulating the Net 4b (4:51).

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This is an edited version of a speech given to the Internet Industry Association on February 21, 2008.



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The Hon Michael Kirby AC CMG is a former justice of the High Court of Australia.

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