Comments | nushanakt: New law could block access to anime, manga and slash fan sites in Australia

nushanakt

New law could block access to anime, manga and slash fan sites in Australia

Jan 18, 2010 12:48

[NB: What follows is an alert for all slash / yaoi / boy's love / anime / manga / gaming fans about new legislation that could potentially make large parts of fandom illegal in Australia. Please circulate this as widely as you can to any and all Australian fans. I did not write this: the author prefers to remain anonymous. However, I am happy to ( Read more... )

yaoi, child pornography laws, slash, anime, australia, internet filtering

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ms_maree January 19 2010, 02:45:35 UTC

This scares me. I wish I could do more as I'm not a owner of any fansite, I wonder how this will impact on networking sites like LJ and DW.

nushanakt January 19 2010, 04:04:17 UTC

That's one of the things about this that is so frustrating - no one knows how it will effect larger sites (DW & LJ among them) if they are sharing yaoi material. Are they going to block all of Amazon just because you can buy material there that is technically illegal?

ms_maree January 19 2010, 04:13:54 UTC

Dude, some of the stuff that you can buy at JBs is skirting technically illegal. A lot of the stuff you can buy at Borders is practically there. And yet, there they are, still imported and sold.

ETA: which shows how hypocritical the whole thing is.

moorspede January 19 2010, 04:38:52 UTC

NSW also has this.

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lilacsigil January 19 2010, 03:50:09 UTC

Even if you're not an owner of a fansite, you can contact your local MP or Senator Conroy directly - find the details at nocleanfeed. You'll probaby get the same letter back as I did, saying that I'm a bad person who doesn't want to SAVE THE CHILDREN, but numbers count.

bop_radar January 20 2010, 08:56:06 UTC

Thank you for posting about this! I would also add that GetUp! have been campaigning heavily about this and have a link for you to send feedback directly to Senator Conroy: http://www.getup.org.au/campaign/SaveTheNet&id=892

(And I totally owe you email!)

nushanakt January 20 2010, 13:16:19 UTC

Thanks for that link - I'll be sure to pass it on!

And no worries about the email. We'll talk soon!

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