Archive for the ‘Censorship Policy’ Category
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
The ACMA has approved the Internet Industry Association's new Content Services Code. It was required because of changes made to the Broadcasting Services Act 1992 last year. The biggest of those changes was probably the new prohibition on MA15+ content delivered via Internet or a mobile services, unless it was ...
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Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
The Classification (Publications, Films and Computer Games) Amendment (Assessments and Advertising) Bill 2008 passed the Senate this week. Here's a brief look at some of the changes:
The Bill allows unclassified films and computer games to be advertised before they are classified, providing they meet set conditions and are assessed as ...
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
Labor will spend $126 million over four years on their Cyber-Safety plan which Senator Conroy says will create a safer online environment for Australian children. That'd be nice if Mr Conroy's idea of cyber safety didn't include mandatory ISP filtering for all Australians.
The Cyber-Safety Plan will ...
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Sunday, March 30th, 2008
Details of what was on the agenda at this years Standing Comittee of Attorneys-General censorship meeting have been released. Apart from the introduction of an R18+ classification for computer games, our censorship ministers also discussed:
Access to RC material for research
Ministers agreed that access to refused classification (RC) material for legitimate ...
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Friday, March 28th, 2008
There's still no R rating for games, but today's meeting between federal, state and territory censorship ministers has at least made some progress. Despite being opposed to an adult games classification, South Australia has agreed there should be a public consultation process on the classification of games.
That may mean good ...
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