PORN: Law pushing smut overseas
Anti-porn problems in Oz
p2pnet.net News- Tough Australian Net ?censorship? is ?driving pornographers overseas,? says The Australian, quoting the EFA (Electronic Frontiers Australia).
Only one takedown notice was issued by the Australian Communications and Media Authority for Australian-hosted content during the latest reporting period but it, ?received 598 complaints between July and December last year, and identified 430 overseas-hosted prohibited items,? says the story, going on:
?Content hosted overseas is either notified to the makers of filters, or if it is believed to be illegal, is referred to the Australian Federal Police. ACMA found complaints referring to US-hosted content dropped but complaints concerning content hosted in Russia and China increased.?
But the EFA says internet content regulation in Australia simply pushed offensive content overseas, states The Australian.
"There's a dramatic increase in the amount of foreign-hosted content," it has EFA executive director Irene Graham saying. "They can't do anything more about it than they did before, which was, if you don't like it, use a filter."
The law stops adults from seeing content that's freely available in other media but, ?Adults should be able to view Australian content that has been produced and hosted in Australia," she said.
"If you're allowed to view it on video, you should be able to see it on the internet. This just makes Australians use overseas sites to see this material and Australian money is going to overseas content hosts."