Porn crackdown at Aussie airports nets 19
 

THE crackdown on porn at Australian airports which resulted in the arrest of a Singapore Airlines pilot last Saturday, has netted 19 people since January last year.

Two others ? another Singaporean and a Malaysian Airlines pilot ? were also arrested in the last one week.

The crackdown appears to be confined to Australia, although arrests have been made from time to time elsewhere.

On Tuesday, for example, Italian police arrested a 55-year-old university professor after he stepped off a plane from Bangkok at Rome's Leonardo da Vinci airport. The arrest was part of a country-wide crackdown on child pornography.

In Dubai last November, a British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) deejay was arrested for allegedly carrying pornographic DVDs into the country.

The Australian action appears to be a concerted effort aimed at stopping the smuggling of pornography into the country via Adelaide, according to a statement on the country's Customs website.

The website quoted Australian Customs national manager of investigations, Richard Janeczko, as saying the department was seeing an increase in interceptions of objectionable pornography at the border.

Meanwhile, the SIA pilot at the centre of the porn storm, Captain Ng Kok Yauw, has arrived back in Singapore.

The father of two has been suspended by the airline pending investigations.

He was charged by Australian authorities on Monday and fined A$12,000 (RM35,000).

He pleaded guilty and paid the fine. ? The Straits Times / Asia News Network

X is illegals in australias

is it a crackdown on porn or on child porn? There is a Huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge difference...

The DJ arrested was drum and bass DJ grooverider who was busted for having some porn DVD's and abouit 2 grams of POT. Hes been in jail 2-3 months now and is looking at a mandatory 4 years for drug possession

vague on weather is c p or regular porn they are after.

Is porn illegal in Australia or something? I can see if it's cp, but regular good old fashioned porn??????

Sounds like schools out in Australia.

I dont get the 'smuggling it in' bit......

They just download it like everyone else.

Why would anyone 'smuggle' porn these days - That goes for CP as well.

Well the DJ Grooverider bit says he was arrested in Dubai, not Australia

That is what you get when you let pilots go onto a plane without checking their bags..

actually, I think they just went back a couple weeks ago :winkwink:

I was thinking this too

they could move it digitally just about anywhere they want but they choose to travel through immigration with it to deliver it to another country

I guess this is a really dumb group of criminals they managed to catch

I love how the australian media and government lumps child porn and adult porn together. Maybe their brains have a hard distinguishing between the two?

In Oz we have religious nutters in the senate, so our laws on porn are farcical. Its legal to own an x rated video, but not to sell it. So giving porn out for free is fine, but if you make a profit look out.

They even passed laws banning adult content on the internet. So far they've found it hard to enforce. However, new filters are being added to the internet at ISP level soon, so maybe they will have more luck.

Oh but selling x rated porn is legal in one state, the ACT. Guess which state all the federal politicians live?

No kidding huh?