ACMA declares anti-abortion site ‘prohibited content’
Update – Friday 13 March, 2009: ACMA forces Whirlpool to remove link to banned anti-abortion web page. In response to a complaint about an anti-abortion web page showing photographs of what appears to be aborted fetuses, ACMA has declared the page ‘prohibited or potential prohibited content’. The Whirlpool member who made the complaint, presumably to...
Filtering and online safety reports: Brooklyn Law School and Harvard
Two reports worth reading: 1) ‘Filtering in Oz: Australia’s Foray Into Internet Censorship‘ by Derek Bambauer at the Brooklyn Law School in New York argues Australia represents a shift by Western democracies towards legitimating Internet filtering and away from robust consideration of the alternatives available to combat undesirable information. Bambauer writes: Australia’s decision to censor...
My visit to the Atami Sex Museum – Atami, Japan
I’m currently holidaying in Japan and today I finished my brief stop over in Atami with a visit to the Atami Hihokan – or as it’s better known – the Atami Adult or Sex Museum. An excellent place to spend an hour! Not only does it offer three levels of exhibits on mainly Japanese sexuality,...
