Comments on: Radio station under investigation for publishing corporal punishment video

By: Simon Veitch

Simon Veitch — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 01:56:11 +0000

In all honesty I agree that this kind of punishment needs to be stopped, but there is nothing at all the Australian government can do to stop it. So what do they do instead? They try to prevent the video being seen, which of course does no good.

Australia suffers from slower internet speeds as it is than the rest of the world, and now they want to put in this big filter to stop people accessing things and slowing down the internet even more. Why the fuck can’t they just take a stand in better educating parents about online safety of their children. Then the world would be a much safer place.

I know when I was much younger my parents would often keep an eye on what I was doing online. They did the same with my younger brother when he finally went online. Both of us turned out fine, we’re mature, we’re responsible, we know how to be safe online. If another child’s parents refuse to do the same. How is that the childs fault?

By: dave

dave — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:08:40 +0000

And there’s nothing to stop a child intrigued by the warning clicking through to this

Nothing? Nothing at all? Nothing that begins with a “p” and ends with “arents”?

By: m

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 06:01:10 +0000

The caning video is extremely distressing (I did not watch all of it), Instead of sanctioning the media that publicise it, sanction the bastards that DO this!

By: Bob Bain

Bob Bain — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 11:18:44 +0000

This incident appears to have been documented a couple of years ago at the following URL seemingly based in Australia.

http://www.usp.com.au/fpss/news-asia/news-malaysia101.html

Fri, 03 August 2007

A worldwide condemnation erupted after a video posted on an internet video-sharing website showed a Malaysian prisoner being tortured with a cane.

“The disturbing video, posted on liveleak, showed a naked man strapped to an upright wooden frame, his rear exposed to a uniformed official who lifts a meter-long rattan stick above his head before bringing it down on the prisoner’s buttocks, tearing the flesh with each strike.”

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There are graphic stills seemingly taken from the video and an embedded YouTube video of the incident which can be viewed as an embedded video on the site above, while if you seek to view the video on YouTube directly it is marked as “inaappropriate for minors” and you have to log-in and “verify” your age.

It appears that embedded video subsequnently marked as being “unsuitable for minors” plays with no problems as an embedded video and I assume it’s the responsibility of the webmaster to issue the appropriate warnings – as it appears 6PR have done.

It is seemingly still on YouTube and doesn’t appear to have violated their terms of service.

YouTube video at:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eWgYbwNSsU

(posted March 22, 2007 by user at the following URL

http://www.youtube.com/user/iKreeper

Given these facts I would categorise this as an “R” rated video subject to password restrictions and I would assume this is the response that ACMA would determine.

As there have been no complaints regarding the video at the URL above – even though based in Australia I assume ACMA will concentrate only on the 6PR video.

Bob

By: Syd Walker

Syd Walker — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 06:36:21 +0000

When will Media Watch show a fraction of the concern it purports to feel about this video for the many real-life victims of Australian foreign policy in Iraq, Afghanistan etc. That policy, after all, was made possible by lies repeatedly told by the ABC, among others in the journalistic ‘profession’ – lies never exposed by Media Watch.

From where I sit, MW is part of the problem, not the solution. Does Mr Holmes thinks he’s done a job of work because ACMA has jumped on this video? Is setting off a moral panic part of MW’s performance criteria?

How pathetic.

By: Mike Zombie

Mike Zombie — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 03:37:32 +0000

Censoring reality is absolutely sickening. This is what happens in the real world, deal with it. You think taking it down from that particular website is going to stop children from viewing it? As if they can’t just go to Liveleak.com and watch it amongst other disturbing videos. Just because it’s not hosted on an Australia server it doesn’t mean kids are automatically immune. It makes no difference whether its on Liveleak or 6pr.com. It’s about time the government minded it’s own damn business. This country has become a nanny state and I for one am sick to to death of it.

Let parents raise their own kids. The government doesn’t exist to raise your children!

By: Kyle

Kyle — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 03:29:52 +0000

I saw the media watch segment on this and agree that them putting the video on their website was pointless which served no real journalistic purpose and shouldn’t have been published, but I think the warnings were sufficient though and doesn’t really warrant a looking from ACMA.

By: Aileen Wuornos

Aileen Wuornos — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 01:34:50 +0000

oh yeah, not to mention that shit in the video kind of looks like it may be a human rights violation to me.
but i could be wrong.

By: Aileen Wuornos

Aileen Wuornos — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 01:33:31 +0000

It’s like these fuckers have never heard of the concept of “taking responsibility for your own actions”
if your child is clicking on that – ask them WHY, what is it that interests them? explain the context. cotton wool has always done more harm than good.
and more importantly, which parents are letting their children surf the net totally unsupervised anyway.?

By: Sam D

Sam D — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:23:57 +0000

Ouch!