Prostasia’s Twitter page said about a week ago that Australia is pushing a law which would ban all adult content in the country, and even force certain kinds of lawful adult content to be banned WORLDWIDE somehow. How… How would that even work?
For more info, check out this PDF that Prostasia made: https://prostasia.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Australian-Online-Safety-Bill-consultation.pdf
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Australia is an awful country.
Your freedom of speech ends where irrational prejudice begins. It’s quite clear that they cannot and should not be taken seriously in the worldwide academic arena, nor should their policies be looked at positively.
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Right, but what effects would this stupid law have globally? Can they actually ask for stuff to be scrubbed off the internet that’s not even hosted within their borders? Can artwork I post to Fur Affinity be taken down because Australia didn’t like it, even though I’m from Texas?
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This is the biggest problem when you allow these people to censor pornography, the more you allow, the more they will want to censor. Other than that it is IMPOSSIBLE for Australia to ban anything worldwide.
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that’s the problem with censorship. It’s a cancer that only grows and grows before it kills all, including the very things these radical prudes wish to defend.
The reason why CP/CSAM isn’t necessarily a form of censorship is because the rationale is wholly and objectively justified, which is the eradication of child sexual abuse.
When it goes beyond that to the mere concept of child abuse, rather than the object of child abuse, it quickly loses its noble and robust value and spreads. I wish that these radicals over at Exodus Cry and other orgs would see that. Morality in Media is a regressive organization that lobbied heavily against sexual expression of all forms, in addition to LGBT rights. This irrational and radical disgust for sexual expression and pornography needs to be addressed.
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Are you sure it’s impossible?
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Oh, absolutely. People who want to ban pornography also want to bring back bullsh*t like Section 28.
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Censoring the internet is extremely difficult, with most methods relying on primitive, easy-to-bypass methods like DNS redirecting and masking at the ISP level.
Australia can only control what goes in and out of their own borders. I weep for the innocent men and women of Australia.
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I mentioned this to someone on IRC, he amused me with this.
(redacted) Jigsy knowing australia, they probably will
(redacted) i remember that one episode of some “border” program where they “caught” a traveler with a laptop that had “dangerous child pictures”
(redacted) with the screen turned away from the camera, the lawyer and two police officers stood there explaining that the images were very disturbing
(redacted) the lawyer nearly bent over laughing when he saw them
(redacted) regular anime episodes
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I have a close friend from Adelaide who draws some erotic art on Fur Affinity… He’s going to be screwed if this passes…
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Best wishes for your friend. I hope they’re able to stay safe or get out of there. Australia isn’t very civil.
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I just don’t understand why most politicians think that sexual freedom is an illegitimate freedom.
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I guess it’s just their culture. Australia was originally brought up as a penal colony with a history of censorship and suppression, so it only makes sense that these ideals and attitudes for that which offends them remains true.
They’re also extremely religious over there, too, and many anti-sex feminist groups are also based out of there, which apparently have a lot of influence over their governments.
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100% sure. Each country has the autonomy to decide what should be banned within its borders.
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I hope that remains true when push comes to shove.
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Screw that dingo shit hole of a country. The government over there is a surreal nightmare. You can’t fap to lolis, or dolls, or flat women, and now they want to ban adult porn? For all the anti lolicons, australia should be seen as evidence that once you ban something innocuous because “itth dangewooth!!” then it’s a slippery slope.
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