Archive for the ‘Health Censorship’ Category
Friday, March 5th, 2010
The ABC's Hungry Beast recently conducted an extensive interview with the Australian Classification Board's Greg Scott about the censorship of the female anatomy, in particular the vagina. It's part of a story on Labiaplasty. I suggest you watch it below and read the complete transcript here (as well as check ...
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Wednesday, September 10th, 2008
Channel Seven's Sunrise spoke with Media Studies Professor Karen Brooks this morning about the Wikipedia sex topic uproar. There wasn't any web bashing or family frothing though as one comes to expect from morning tele. Brooks instead spoke about the importance of supervising children's Internet use and the need for ...
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Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
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Wikipedia has come under fire from some users and child protection advocates because its pages about masturbation and ejaculation also contain 'graphic' images and footage (see here and here).
Child Wise CEO Bernadette Mcmenamin told News Ltd that while she supports sex education, displaying sexualised ...
Posted in Health Censorship, Internet Censorship | 12 Comments »
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
Parents and newspapers are going bonkers over an educational drug pamphlet (pictured here) put out by the Sydney West Area Health Service (SWAHS). A pamphlet they say encourages drug use because it advises readers of some precautions to take should they choose to experiment with drugs.
'It's wrong. It shouldn't be ...
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Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
Right To Life New Zealand (RTLNZ) and the Society for the Promotion of Community Standards are spitting chips after the Revised International Edition of Dr Philip Nitschke's Peaceful Pill Handbook was approved by the countries OFLC providing it only be sold sealed to those over the age of eighteen.
The original ...
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Monday, June 9th, 2008
Simon Chapman, a Professor in Public Health at the University of Sydney who specialises in tobacco control, warns that many of his colleagues in the health profession are seeking to have smoking in films either ...
Posted in Film Censorship, Health Censorship | 2 Comments »
