Ban X-Rated porn for everyone, including adults: Family First
October 27, 2008 – 12:06 pmBreaking: Asher Moses at SMH writes that Family First Senator Steve Fielding wants hardcore pornography and fetish material blocked under the Government’s plans to filter the Internet.
Asked to specify the categories of content that Senator Fielding would like blocked by the mandatory first tier, a Family First spokeswoman indicated the party would want X-rated and refused classification (RC) content banned for everyone, including adults.
“Family First would consider a mandatory ISP-based filtering system that protects children by blocking illegal content like child pornography, but allows adults to opt out of filtering to access material classified R18+ or less,” Senator Fielding’s spokeswoman said.
UPDATE 1:15PM: A spokesman for Senator Xenophon said, should the filtering plan go ahead, Xenophon would look to use it to block Australians from accessing overseas online casino sites, which are illegal to run in Australia.
19 Responses to “Ban X-Rated porn for everyone, including adults: Family First”
Wow, they are becoming increasingly detached from reality if they think for a second half the population wouldn’t riot if this reached fruition.
By James on Oct 27, 2008
Family First - “The Lunatic Right” (Barnaby Joyce) !
- google “Barnaby Joyce Lunatic Right” for information.
By Bob Bain on Oct 27, 2008
Time to start a new website somebodythinkoftheadults.com
I wish the government would stop telling us how we should live.
By Spikeles on Oct 27, 2008
Family First are just simply, religious extremists, that’s it. In reality they have very little regard for the term ‘democracy’ or freedom and lets face it; if it were up to them Australia would be a theocracy. Anyone who supports a single thing that party spurts out should be shot. Plain and simple.
By mick on Oct 27, 2008
Seems that every time a politician invokes “child safety” as a rationale for new legislation, it’s really an invitation to switch your brain off.
Hopefully enough people will stay switched on to defeat this bizarrely oppressive effort. If not, I guess all the consenting adults in the country will simply to start producing their own X-rated & RC content and distributing it underground instead of passively consuming.
By Sathington Willoughby on Oct 27, 2008
The most disturbing thing about Family First is not their desire to control everbody elses lives, but that enough people voted for them that Steve Fielding now occupies a position of power.
By Stevian on Oct 27, 2008
So now this ridiculous filtering scheme is going way beyond what they initially claimed. First it was to protect children solely, now it’s to try and control what adults can and can’t see. I really can’t say I’m surprised, there’s not a politician on Earth that says anything you can take at face value.
By P.V on Oct 27, 2008
i recall Family First saying they didnt want to stop adults from being able to view this, must have been a lie. since labour really want Fielding’s support i wonder how far they will go with this filter. if X rated porn is blocked for everyone i guarentee there will be riots. i read not long ago that it is illegal for online casinos to allow Australians to play on them, there is actual legislation for this. this is complete bullshit legimate casinos such as Bodog should legally allow aussies to use them, i dont understand why this legislation exists. they are pushing it if they are able to filter out casinos as technically they are illegal.
By Jarrod on Oct 27, 2008
The majority of pornography is already “illegal” under our vague and unpalatable sex laws. The majority of shared data is already “illegal” under our intolerable and corrupt copyright act. The majority of cutting edge thought from those standing for the dignity of the individual is illegal to think thanks to our euthanasia and sedition laws.
The population are already criminals. What Conroy and Xenophon and Fielding do not realise, is that by wrapping the entire nation but themselves in bars, they have imprisoned themselves, and the consequences of a prison strike for the screws are never pleasant.
I hope that we will roll back the creeping wowserism of the Rudd-Howard years, and return to the concept of Australia as developing and further expanding human possibility as existed in spirit in the era of Whitlam-Fraser-Hawke-Keating.
This isn’t about parties, this is about the fundamental contradiction at the heart of the nation’s culture between “Blue wowserism” and “She’ll be right.” I know where my sympathies lie.
By fifers on Oct 27, 2008
Shouldn’t we have some kind of protection from religious extremists such as this? This is one of the biggest threats to Australia’s freedoms we have ever faced in our lifetime!
I want these Family First members sacked! They do not represent Australian values.
By James on Oct 27, 2008
And here we ge to the bottom of the matter. The extreme right wing christian agenda.
I wonder when we might be able to censor fielding and his cronies for their religious extremism.
By Sean the Blogonaut on Oct 27, 2008
And there we have the paradox which disempowers us. Freedom of speech means freedom of speech that we disagree with no matter how wrong headed and asinine it is. We can only hope those who hear it recognise it as such and treat it with the disdain and contempt it deserves. Unfortunately we cannot completely rely on our fellow citizens to display what we regard as basic intelligence. As I said before regarding Fielding, ’someone voted for him’.
Hold me, I’m scared.
By Stevian on Oct 28, 2008
Only 2% of Victorians voted for Fielding. He didn’t have that much support. But due to preference deals (including from the Democrats) he was elected off of that 2%.
Support for Family First ranges from about 1-5% around the country with their highest support coming from SA.
By Shem Bennett on Oct 28, 2008
Thanks for all your comments guys. Some really good points made here. As you might have guessed, I’ve been tied up with filtering over the last week and haven’t had a chance to respond individually to each comment. Sorry!
By Mike on Oct 28, 2008
Come on, the whole bill is there to buy Fielding’s vote on other legislation.
Congratulations, Victorians who voted 1 above the line for the ALP in 2004 and who didn’t bother checking where their votes were going. If the ALP had preferenced the Greens ahead of Fundies First, or if ALP voters had bothered to check what they were voting for, there’d be one more Green, one less Fundy Firster, and this sort of shit would have no chance of getting through.
By Jeremy on Oct 28, 2008
This is bad for freedom of religion too - I made a case against it from a Christian conservative point of view here: http://www.sydneyanglicans.net/forums/viewthread/3673/
A short version would be: Will the bible be banned for adult themes (particularly the Old Testament with massacres, war, rape etc) in the so-called clean feed? It’s a two way street.
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Also, you can imagine how quickly the entertainment companies are going to jump on the bandwagon to ‘catch’ people they believe are infringing copyright. I know the proposal doesn’t include filtering p2p traffic, but web traffic should be enough to get ‘em going. They already want ISP’s to police their customers and impose a three-strikes and you’re out rule, and they’ve obviously been quite happy to sue their own customers in the US, so going after kids sharing stuff online will be priority #1 as soon as the infrastructure is there I imagine.
Scary stuff.
By Luke on Oct 28, 2008
Hi Luke. I saw that in my refs yesterday and have a post about it planned for tonight. Didn’t get a chance to finish it last night. Cheers!
By Mike on Oct 28, 2008
Typical baby boomer pollies. Next they’ll ban Interactive Entertainment because we should all read a book.
By Steveo on Oct 29, 2008
You stupid religious F**ks. you want us to live in some communist love fest
By Sj on Oct 30, 2008