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4thofeleven) wrote2010-08-08 03:47 pm
4thofeleven) wrote2010-08-08 03:47 pm
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Censorship in Australia
Found an excellent article on the absurdities and creeping puritanism that affect Australia's current media classification and censorship system written by the leader of the Australian Sex Party.
I'm very seriously considering preferencing them first in the senate this election - the internet filter might be dead for the moment, with Abbot finally announcing the Liberals won't support it, but the underlying philosophies that let such an idea get as far as it did still exist and dominate, and there needs to be someone in politics actively working against this sort of thing - and, unfortunately, even the Greens don't have a perfect record in this area.
I'm very seriously considering preferencing them first in the senate this election - the internet filter might be dead for the moment, with Abbot finally announcing the Liberals won't support it, but the underlying philosophies that let such an idea get as far as it did still exist and dominate, and there needs to be someone in politics actively working against this sort of thing - and, unfortunately, even the Greens don't have a perfect record in this area.