Censorship in Australia

[4thofeleven]

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.

Comments

[sirhenryjones.livejournal.com]

I totally agree - now if only they didn't have a name as ludicrous as the Sex Party, someone might actually take them seriously...

[4thofeleven.livejournal.com]

Although, for a small party, a memorable if stupid name is probably better than a generic and forgettable name...

[sunnyskywalker]

I would say good job in possibly overtaking the US on the list of puritanical asshat censorship legislation, but I don't think anyone wins here...

Since it sounds like your censorship advocates are similar to ours, I'll add that it always amazes me how much effort and verbiage pro-censorship people can expend without once mentioning, say, that they're going to put even more effort into stopping human trafficking and sex slavery on the philosophy that the movies etc. may be bad (all of them, I guess, in this view), but trafficking is clearly the greater evil and at least anything that slip through their filters will involve willing participants. Probably because they aren't. It's almost like they care about their own precious eyeballs more than people.