man. for reals?

[amand_r]

I am not a serious person here that much, so I like to think that when I do get serious, it means something.

One of my greatest fears, aside from Jaws, zombies and gas station coffee, is someone telling me what I am and am not allowed to see. What my kid should be seeing. You are not my child's parent. You are not my parent. Not even my parents tell me what I can and cannot look at, because I am a grown up now, with real coffee and real debt and a brain inside my skull that is capable of higher thought processes, even when I'm wanking to porn that I got off the interwebs.

Because that's what the censorship issue in Australia is all about: kids, wanking, getting off, who does it, who's not getting any, and who gets to decide any and all of these things.

I forget sometimes, that Australia doesn't have a bill of rights, and so this is a very real thing.

And I can't really do anything about it, except direct you here, so that you can read it yourself and decide if you think it's real. I think it is. And I don't know what legal recourse Aussie citizens have if this goes through, to appeal. It makes me very grateful that we are actually capable of saying, "that's unconstitutional", because they don't.

Woah. For srs. So look. If we can do anything as non-Aussies, it's raise awareness.

This week, from the 25th to the 29th is the Great Aussie Website Blackout. If you're an Aussie, I feel for ya, and this is ridiculous.

I have a small soapbox, so: information should be unfettered by censors of this nature (I'm not going to fool myself into thinking that all information is running free through a daisy field, even as a society we often ourselves censor and each other, but that is for another day.). No one gets to decide what's appropriate for me to read/watch. You don't like spanking? Fine, DON'T LOOK FOR IT, AND WHEN YOU FIND IT BY ACCIDENT, GO AWAY. You don't remove it for everyone.

Seriously, people who thinks this is a good idea? And how much are they not getting laid? Or what? I got nothing.

Comments

[madder-rose.livejournal.com]

Yes, let's inspire the sexual predators to think up new clever ways to hide, aside from the new clever ways they've already thought of and take away regular, consensual porn from your average Ozzie. :/

I love Border Patrol Australia and went O.O when I saw the BP confiscate some guy's porn collection. Apparently more than one chick and one guy in each flick was too risqué. (Yes, the BP officers watched the films before they confiscated them! Hah!)

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

OMG WTF. In the US there are certain states you can't ship porn to. Like companies can't ship their porn there. I can get some and mail it privately. How fucked is that?

[madder-rose.livejournal.com]

That's O.O also. Don't they know people have the internets (Unless you're in China and Australia obviously!)? I'll Mail People Porn!

I thought the Ozzie Border Patrol were confiscating for the Bad Bad Porn, but no, it was just "We'll confiscate this lesbian spank porn along with the potentially evil seeds that could wreck our crops".

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

Define "bad" porn, you know?

[http://users.livejournal.com/_bounce_/]

The stuff with really awful production values. Really, really awful, 'oops, they fell off the set but we can't aford to reshoot it', awful.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

That's funny porn!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_bounce_/]

Some of it. Some of it counts as baad porn. :)

[madder-rose.livejournal.com]

That's me being extra super sensitive in the 'I will have an extreme physical reaction now, give me my paper bag' way (eta) for pretty much thinking about it - Child pornography and the like is what I thought they were after, but no. Just regular that you can get in any video store here. :/