[LINK] Watching this video may be illegal in Queensland

[Jan Whitaker]

At 09:40 AM 12/12/2008, Craig Sanders wrote:
>if it is true that, as stated by David Vaile in the article, "Publishing
>capability has been democratised and decentralised, but so has liability
>and responsibility" then Illingworth would be held accountable to
>the SAME standard as Movie and TV producers, not to a much harsher
>standard...an absurdly harsher standard.

This is an example of how selective application can go soooo wrong. 
When the censorship debate was raging in the 90s, this was one of the 
objections to such sweeping laws. I guess we were right. But it's 
cold comfort for this guy.

It's also Queensland. Some people think 'different' up there. [Sorry, Irene!]

Jan



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