[LINK] the Bill Henson 'mistake' - Conroy

[Marghanita da Cruz]

Stilgherrian wrote:
> On 27/03/2009, at 3:09 PM, Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
>> SBS's Insight program looked at this in June 2008. Was it the site  
>> or the
>> photograph that is rated PG?
>>> Charges were never laid against the artist and the Classification  
>>> Board rated the image PG - but the debate continues...
>> <http://news.sbs.com.au/insight/episode/index/id/22>
> 
> These are different cases.
> 
> The SBS story refers to the incident where a Sydney art gallery  
> exhibiting Henson's work mailed out an invitation which include one of  
> his photos. Police were called in. A Classification Board member has  
> told me they didn't look at the work in the exhibition itself (they  
> were never formally asked), but at the use of a Henson photo on news  
> websites.
> 
> This week's reports of Henson imagery (incorrectly) in the ACMA  
> blacklist is one page of a website of "young male beauty".
> 
> Since the ACMA blacklist works at the granularity of the URL, it wold  
> be the "page" that is rated. However one PG image on an otherwise G- 
> rated page would presumably make the page PG.
> 

If it is the photo that is the problem, it would be more effective to block the
image file rather than all the webpages  (html files) that may be displaying it.

Interesting issue for search engines....

Marghanita
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