[LINK] Web censorship plan heads towards a dead end

Leah Manta link at fly.to
Thu Feb 26 23:00:48 AEDT 2009


>This week Senator Conroy said there was "a very strong case for
>blocking" other legal content that has been "refused classification".
>According to the classification code, this includes sites depicting drug
>use, crime, sex, cruelty, violence or "revolting and abhorrent
>phenomena" that "offend against the standards of morality".

Who defines what the standards of morality are?

The people who surf for porn and stimulation and accept the content 
and enjoy it, or people who make noise about it and are in denial?

>And last month, ACMA added an anti-abortion website to its blacklist
>because it showed photographs of what appears to be aborted foetuses.

Why is this an issue?  The Government made Tabacco Companies print 
BIG pictures of Cancer in Lungs and Rotting teeth.

I mean, why on earth do I want to see and expose my children to 
pictures of such gross abnormality.

Abortion is an acceptable procedure, although often used for selfish reasons.





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