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cannabis remains prohibited
Dude, it's medicinal!
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1. The Aussie system will be mandatory? Regardless of whether you have the filter software or not?
It's mandatory for all ISPs to provide filtering. From a user point of view, it's opt-OUT, not opt-in.
And will not list what sites/rationale etc are used for blocking?
Britain doesn't, Finland doesn't, Malaysia doesn't. So far despite some pretty good lobbies getting established among Aussie net users (the 'no clean feed' button is starting to turn up all over the place), nobody seems to be able to get a clear answer on that. Definitely everything on the ACMA list, but other stuff as well. And given the way the internet expands, they'll have to keep adding stuff to the list...
The thing is, as Russell's column states, they had a system where anyone who actually WANTED filtering could install the software at their own end, for free. Now that's going.
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There's already drift on what the Aussie black-list should be covering. According to a Labor Party press release:
What category of material will be banned under Labor’s plan? Labor will require ISPs to filter out R, RC and X rated material as part of a clean feed for home internet connections."
...the Current ACMA blacklist under the Howard Government is inadequate. It does not contain enough sites to protect our children from harmful and inappropriate content...
But they don't say what they want to add to the blacklist. It'll be left, I assume, to some users to reverse-engineer the list of blocked URLs, but some of the things they've said would indicate that they're also looking at blocking sites that use particular terms which is where things start getting really stupid.
Meanwhile, even the ACMA is worried about performance degradation and the costs involved in trying to compensate for it.
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Meanwhile, I assume you will still be able to walk into a bookstore in suburban inner south Brisbane (your local MP: the Hon. Kevin Rudd) and walk out with a copy of Lolita -- a novel whose central character/narrator is not only a paedophile but a kidnapper and murderer?
Well I wouldn't try reading it on the train.
Actually, I think your point still stands. Nabokov or Anais Nin, you're okay. Print-outs from a web-site, not so much. (As an aside, just how much do you have to read over someone's shoulder to discover that it's child porn? That's not a quick sideways glance, is it?)
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How long before an MP here promotes it here?
Well, Canada's working on it. Canada, where you can legally go to a lesbian wedding topless and stoned. What really worries me for here is that ISPs will just start 'voluntarily' doing it, as in Britain.
We're a country of wee pervies, though, from an Aussie point of view. This amused the hell out of me.
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o New: Banned Drug LeafletSalo stays banned
July 19, 2008 – 7:21 pmSalo DVD banned in AustraliaBetween 1993 and 1998, Salo was classified R18+ in Australia. You could see it in select cinemas. Before that it had been banned since 1976, and in 1998 the QLD Attorney General saw to it that be banned once again.
Fast forward 10 years and nothing has changed. Shock’s submission to have the upcoming Criterion Special Edition of Salo released on DVD was turned down by the Classification Board last week.
Refused-Classification.com writes:
‘It is not short of the mark to say that this has probably become the most controversial film ever for the Australian censors. Over the years, its release, and subsequent re-banning has been so politicised that it is difficult to see how the Classification Board could view it objectively. Make no mistake; in 2008 this should be an R18+ film. The British film censors are still more conservative than the OFLC, yet they passed SALO with an 18 certificate several years ago.’
‘Apart from I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE, we can think of no other title that has had quite as many Australian censorship problems. Saying that, even ISOYG, has been passed uncut since 2004.’
It’s a pretty sad state of affairs when even New Zealand allows Salo to be viewed by adults. That means something when you consider our neighbours once said Power Rangers was too violent. What makes Australian eyes so precious and in need of Government intervention?
If Salo is such a problem and a risk to the population, shouldn’t we be a little more concerned that Kiwis are only a two hour flight away? Maybe it’s time we introduced a ‘Have you watched Salo’ question on the Visitor Entry Card?
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Can we get a hypnotist for this year's PA/Wgtista party? I suspect they could get you to do some really funny things...
I would so come up for that.
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describing herself as having been subject to "the media equivalent of gang rape" by "sadists"
It's morning, so I'm not very articulate, but Emma Angry!
I was going to be all sarcastically supportive, but she doesn't even rank that. This is like assaulting someone and then complaining that your trial and conviction was horribly traumatic.
Does she wake up screaming in the night reliving her gang rape? Is she scared to go out in case she meets her victimisers? Does she get sweaty palms every time she walks past a shrubbery in case a regulatory body leaps out and attacks her? Perhaps she should pop down to her nearest Women's Refuge and tell everybody about the terrible trauma she's suffered.
Meanwhile I'm ordering her a Get Some Fucking Perspective sandwich.
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I'm glad Jay Bennie called you on the Simon Pound piece. It made my skin crawl as well.
Yeah but no but yeah...
It was the Pound piece that introduced the idea of Outreach, which really pinged with me. I've been reading a bit lately in the US and UK media about assimilation of gay culture (and busloads of straight tourists going to See the Gays), and something wasn't pinging quite right with me.
So if someone's talking about being a teenager and living in Masterton or Ashburton or fcuking Timaru and needing some kind of lifeline, I don't give a shit how much fruit there is on their hat. I never saw an out gay person - in RL or on the telly or anywhere - until I joined the Labour Youth Council at sixteen.
Everything made so much more sense after I was handed my copy of the Gay Agenda.
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Why yes it was - how did you guess?
Cause that'd go a long way to working on me.
Could I also have a decent stab at the pick-up-er?
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<>quote>I was once very successfully picked up with a Hitchhikers-guide reference.</quote>
Was it 'is this guy boring you..."?