>> ^spoco2:
ARGH!
Again with this bullshit..

NO, THEY ARE NOT BANNING SMALL BREASTS. Does no one actually go and check things anymore?
sigh .
Yes, Australia has some ridiculous censorship laws. YES, the attempt to install a mandatory internet filter is utter bullshit. YES we are denied R rated games.
BUT THIS IS NOT TRUE.
It hurts the real cases when this is spread around as if it's fact, because it isn't.
The ejaculation thing is true, which absolutely friggen baffles me... WHY?


It's not bullshit. The ban applies to any porn that subjectively appears to include people under 18, by the arbitrary opinion of the censor, rather than to subjects who are actually under age. So a small-breasted and young-looking 25-year old could be banned.

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It still stands that "small breasts" are a criteria for banning- no matter what other information is wrapped around that.
>> ^NetRunner:
@dag, it seems like they're not banning small breasts per se, but they're basically saying that if it's meant to look like kiddie porn, even if it's technically not kiddie porn, they're going to treat it as kiddie porn.
I think that's wrong, since it seems to be saying that they'll ban anything that might titilate pedophiles, I suppose to make pedophiles magically change into something else, rather than banning it to protect underage actresses from legally being involved in porn.
But, whatever. I'm sure a socialist nation like Australia will create a program to subsidize breast enlargements for porn stars. It's only fair if they're going to ban them from the industry otherwise!

Slip. Slippery. S-L-I-P-P-E-R-Y S-L-O-P-E.

You are familiar enough with politics to understand how legal movements begin and proceed, that your comments are treading a very dubious moral line...
>> ^NetRunner:
it seems like they're not banning small breasts per se

>> ^choggie:
Such an interesting and compelling subject for a man who has only ever touched a breast in passing feigning clumsiness, inappropriately, or in 2-D....:)


The Choggie doth protest too much, methinks.

>> ^gwiz665:
The first "real" government...
ducks bowls of rice >> ^Truckchase:
>> ^spawnflagger:
last I checked, ALL PORN, and many other things, are currently being censored on China's internet.
Why hasn't anonymous been attacking them for the last several years?

This is the first "Western" government.



Just to clarify, I'm not passing judgement on non-Western governments, I just fear that if a "Western" government starts this it will open the door for other "Western" governments. (sorry for all the quotes, I'm not a fan of that moniker)

The first "real" government...

*ducks bowls of rice*>> ^Truckchase:
>> ^spawnflagger:
last I checked, ALL PORN, and many other things, are currently being censored on China's internet.
Why hasn't anonymous been attacking them for the last several years?

This is the first "Western" government.

>> ^spawnflagger:
last I checked, ALL PORN, and many other things, are currently being censored on China's internet.
Why hasn't anonymous been attacking them for the last several years?


This is the first "Western" government.

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I have read it. I support the Anonymous action. The "banning small breasts" thing is actually, mostly true.

From the site that's linked from that Crikey link you posted Spoco:.

UPDATE 29/01/10 12:19PM: Fiona Patten has provided additional comment:

“I would like to clarify a few points. In the last 18 months the Classification Board has revoked over 30 serial classifications for a range of reasons, one major one being that the models appear to be under 18. These revoked classifications do not appear on the classification database.”
“Late last year I attended a classification publications training session with three adult magazine distributors and one publisher. We were shown a range of images and the notes made by the board were read out. The underdeveloped nature of the model’s breasts was cited as a reason for the image to be refused classification numerous times.“

“All the publications that have been refused classification adhere to the very strict US laws that enforce model age verification in adult publications and films. These laws are upheld by the FBI. There is no chance that any of the models were under 18.”

>> ^spoco2:
ARGH!
Again with this bullshit..

NO, THEY ARE NOT BANNING SMALL BREASTS. Does no one actually go and check things anymore?
sigh .
Yes, Australia has some ridiculous censorship laws. YES, the attempt to install a mandatory internet filter is utter bullshit. YES we are denied R rated games.
BUT THIS IS NOT TRUE.
It hurts the real cases when this is spread around as if it's fact, because it isn't.
The ejaculation thing is true, which absolutely friggen baffles me... WHY?

Natural selection takes care of that...

>> ^Lann:
You don't see censorship of small di....bah never mind.

In reply to this comment by rebuilder:
I can't see that this will be helpful. In fact, I think this will only strengthen the Australian government's resolve to keep escalating their censorship regime. What government is going to cave in to a bunch of internet misfits? They can't afford to be seen as unable to respond to a direct attack on themselves, so either they'll simply play the importance of the attacks down or they'll pursue some sort of legal action against the perpetrators while using the attacks to paint the opponents of censorship as juvenile troublemakers.


Interesting thought, but I begin to wonder if at this point there is anything that can stop these mind thought crime type laws from being instituted into Westernized governments. What strategies will work that haven't failed elsewhere? (Patriot Act, etc.)

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