I would almost have thought, then, that the copyright lobbyists would have lobbied both side of parliament throughout the debacle and hedged their bets. Not like they don't have the attention span to do it. Yet, the Opposition is doing quite well at having a backbone on this issue.
ACMA's secret blacklist, which will form the basis of the mandatory censorship regime, contains 1370 sites, only 674 of which relate to depictions of children under 18. A significant portion - 506 sites - would be classified R18+ and X18+, which is legal to view but would be blocked for everyone under the proposal.
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".
And last month, ACMA added an anti-abortion website to its blacklist because it showed photographs of what appears to be aborted foetuses. The Government has said it was considering expanding the blacklist to 10,000 sites and beyond.
I mean, we know that the Labor Right is in control of government at the moment... Is this someone in Labor trying to go covert moral guardian? That might explain the zealousness of the project. But that alone doesn't seem to cover it...
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Re: Follow the money
Date: 2009-03-02 04:29 am (UTC)Although I did find it eeenteresting when I read this in a SMH article:
I mean, we know that the Labor Right is in control of government at the moment... Is this someone in Labor trying to go covert moral guardian? That might explain the zealousness of the project. But that alone doesn't seem to cover it...