Another swearing complaint fired off at Ramsay
Not three complaints. Not even two. One single complaint about Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares which aired in March was enough for the ACMA to declare that the language used in the episode exceeded its M Classification. It should have been MA15+. Channel Nine does accept Ramsay’s use of the word ‘cunt’ probably does mean the episode...
Melbourne City Council to pre-approve artwork, keep sex mild
Here I was thinking Queensland was going to be the only State to flex its censorship muscles this month, but now Victoria has entered the ring. Curators and owners of Melbourne City Council funded galleries will need to alert the council to potentially controversial pieces ahead of schedule for approval by a review panel before...
What’s wrong with being offended?
If Want Longer Lasting Sex on a billboard is confronting to you, or you support the ASB’s call to remove the Advanced Medical Institute’s ads, ask yourself what’s wrong with being offended? I was discussing the billboards on Aussie tech forum Overclockers today and was surprised at the number of people who supported the ASB’s...
Longer Lasting Sex billboards sexualise children and are confronting to Australians
After 18 months of dismissing complaints against Advanced Medical Institute’s giant yellow ‘Want Longer Lasting Sex?’ billboards, the Advertising Standards Bureau has backflipped and decided that the ad not only sexualises children, but is also confronting to a large section of the community. I wish I was joking. There’s two major problems here: 1) The...
Seven vetted Olympic ads
Bob was kind enough to update us on the GetUp/Channel 7 controversy and it looks like they weren’t the only organisation shafted by the TV network during their Olympics coverage. A Wilderness Society ad relating to the Western Australian election wouldn’t be run ‘until network bosses had seen it.’ SMH writes: “Channel Seven is so...
Anna Bligh uses Attorney-General, police to censor Wicked Vans
Could there be a bigger and more disgusting waste of Government resources: QLD Premier Anna Bligh has sicked her dogs, the State’s Attorney-General and Police service, onto Wicked rental vans for what’s been described as a ‘highly offensive’ slogan. According to the Cairns Post, a Cairn’s resident complained about one of the companies vans with...
Playing the censor: Would you ban this band’s ‘violent’ photos?
MySpace said this band’s promo shoot (Click to see the photos – Not Safe For Work) was ‘too violent’ and promptly removed the offending photographs from their website. Which isn’t too unreasonable when you take into account that MySpace has strict policies on what can and can’t be published on a user’s profile. But let’s...
Boobs on Bikes and porn fuel violence
Porn fuels violence. Porn fuels rape. If only porn could fuel my CAR! That was the message protesters at Auckland’s 2008 Boobs on Bikes parade were sending out today (well the first two at least). Seriously though. If people object to pornography, that’s their right and I respect it, but c’mon — The porn fuel’s...
Clean feed won’t protect children
Colin from EFA has written an article about the Government’s filtering plan for the MacTalk.com.au community that would be worth showing to any friends you have still unsure of what Stephen Conroy has in store for Australia. It covers many of the problems that exist with the plan, but none more important than the fact...
Nude female sculpture in QLD is ‘offensive’
A nude female sculpture — in a park — in Queensland — Oh, the humanity! This sculpture by artist Antone Bruinsma (also from QLD) was removed from a park on Bribie Island on Wednesday because it was ‘not council’s job to deliberately go out and offend people.’ Yah… Moreton Bay Regional Council mayor Allan Sutherland...
Australia gets censored Fallout 3
Relaxing on my Brisbane Show Day holiday, I nearly forgot to write about the censored version of Fallout 3 that will be released in Australia. The original game (that everybody else sees fit enough to play) was Refused Classification by the ACB last month because of in-game morphine use. The for-Australian-eyes version no longer has...
