OZ CENSORSHIP FACEPALM

May 20, 2010 14:31

Australian customs officers have been given new powers to search incoming travellers' laptops and mobile phones for pornography.

WHAT. THE -- I don't even know what to say. Unless it's illegal material -- the obvious being child pornography -- there is absolutely no reason that Customs should be given an ambit to search an individual's luggage for legal, repeat, legal adult material. And how the fuck is one defining pornography in the first place?

It's like Conroy's vaunted internet filter applied IRL (and let's not get into the irony of Canberra having the reputation of being the porn capital of Australia), and absolutely ridiculous. Honeymooning couple film themselves getting frisky in a hotel spa? You might have to declare that. Guy with porn DVDs bought while traveling in Europe? Have to declare that. Fangirl coming back from Japan with graphic yaoi doujinshi? Yup, might have to declare that too.

/rant off, back to work

rant, censorship, country:australia

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