I would be astonished if the members of Anonymous would have read that legislation without the attention paid to the original comment by the minister. I confess that I have not read the legislation and I have no opinion about it, but I do ultimately trust Parliament and the courts in this country to establish a boundary in this vexatious issue of what happens on the web, a boundary between what is acceptable under the law and what isn't. We're not there yet. This is a very new and very difficult area, because in some ways the web is private communication between people and in other ways the web is a statement of a public utterance. Sometimes the border is not clear between them.
On March 27th, 2012. See this statement in context.