WARNING: Traveling to Australia with PORN on your laptop !
 

If you are Traveling to Australia you could be searched for porn !

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

Australian officials now had an unfettered right to examine travellers' electronic devices, marking the beginning of a new era of official investigation into people's private lives.

Customs confirmed the new reference to "pornography" on the Incoming Passenger Cards and the search powers, acknowledging that searches conducted by officers may involve the discovery of "personal or sensitive possessions".


You can read the whole article here:
http://www.theage.com.au/technology/...0520-vh09.html

Australia dont like porn because ?!?

What is with that people?

Well, seeing as certain types of porn is illegal in Australia now, it seems sensible for the lawkeepers to search for illegal contraband, doesn't it?

What's about a constitutional privacy? I mean the right for a private life? What if they will reveal/exposure some sensitive private info while they are "inspecting" your electronic devices? What if I have some telephone numbers I don't wanna others to see? What if I have some docs with medical exam results (they can belong to me of to my patients)? What if I have there my private diary, private photos etc?

Fuckin' western liberalism and democracy makes me scared more and more... :disgust

Saying liberalism you are being ironic i guess :)

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time to leave Australia, may be?

MUST NOT FAP
lol

LOL this is stupid

Just some hints... :

- use postal mail if you have any DVD's, just ship them to your hotel or friends in Australia
- encrypt your complete Operating System and use a hidden partition for your porn
- forget all p-magazines, toys or other related stuff, put all of that in a big box and mail it
- use TrueCrypt > http://www.truecrypt.org - it's free

:2 cents:

Australia doesn't have a bill of rights or the niceties therein. The constitution reads more as a framework to facilitate settlement / back door for rogering by mother england than anything else.

When it comes to retarded legislation, I'm pretty sure the voting majority is too apathetic, indifferent or ignorant to do anything. Even if they did, most parties just grovel for public approval and follow up with whatever-the-hell-they-want.

im not sure what is the point on banning porn on Australia

:2 cents:

I wonder how would they search my hidden and encrypted volumines... Anyway, this is ridiculous! Australia is now worse than USSR. I say fuck Australia. I will never visit it till their fucked up undemocratic government step aside. And I really wanted to visit it one day... now, not anymore.


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the fact that is it roughly two days travel for me to get there. this would be reason #2 why i wouldnt care to go there.

Australia has turned into one giant nanny state. It is a joke, and the joke is just getting better ... when you think the wankers in charge cant go any further they continue to surprise.

Say whatever you want about the US - it is still 100 x's more liberal than Australia.

What if you refuse access? You know... not give them the passwd. What then? Prison?

Mostly sarcastic actually. They got succeed in perverting the meaning of words: "democracy", "freedom" and "liberalism". The cost of these words in modern Western community is nothing. The people there don't understand that they already live almost like we did in the USSR times. They have nothing to compare with, so they don't release what's going on around. :2 cents:

Does it have a Constitution - the law above any other laws?

BTW, do the US laws really different? In Australia prostitution is legal, but many kinds of porn and even computer games are not. In the USA the same shit but vice versa. You think I'm wrong?

P.S. I do remember the Soviet times...

certain types of drugs are illegal it seems sensible they can stick a broomstick up your ass to check for drugs doesn't it . After all if you have nothing to hide your anus will be empty right ?

australia loves porn too

Probably refuse to land you.

Same if they have strong suspicions you do have stuff hidden/encrypted.

I think you just won't pass the border :2 cents:

That's insane. So they're going to send you BACK to where you came from just because you have a laptop with you that you refuse to let them look at? That's ridiculous. What's the difference if you bring in a laptop with porn on it, or if you bring in an empty laptop, then download a ton of porn right in the airport after customs?

Idiotic.

Oh yes, because that is a brilliant anal(wait for it)ogy.

Drugs are illegal, border police look for drugs. Usually with an xray. Often without shoving anything up one's arse. In fact, AFAIK, they don't shove things up your arse, they have a clearl plastic lavatory and sit you in a room and wait for you to shit. Which, eventually, you will do.

Explosives are illegal. They swab bags with a little cloth. Not anal fisting. \

Porn is illegal, so surely the law enforcers need to try and stop porn as well.


Clearly, it is a stupid law. No one is doubting that. But I don't think it's quite the same as having a broom shoved up your botty.

The more I think about this, the more vague it becomes.
What part of porn exactly is illegal? Engaging in porn? (no one in Australia fucks?) Possessing porn? What if you don't 'possess' any porn but you just view it online? How the hell can that be illegal? And if it is, aren't they really saying that "The Internet is illegal."?

Quite different in terms of civil liberties. Like I said, there is nothing like the US Bill of Rights in the Australian Constitution. The government has much broader legislative power as a result.

Prostitution isn't a constitutional matter in Australia, neither are the types of censorship or privacy issues you mention. Australia essentially has fewer 'safeguards' against such legislation owing to the lack of explicit civil liberties etc. That doesn't help when the Government is sees fit to create seemingly fascist legislation for every issue that crops up.

Think some of you need to read the full article and not just the cliff notes, this has been around since September last year

When did fucking become porn?

I suppose when it's viewed by another person. Whether in real time or on pics or video, I would guess that's when fucking qualifies as porn. Although I'm sure there are plenty of religious zealots that actually do believe any form of fucking qualifies as porn.

And if my qualification is true, then wouldn't the customs agents be engaging in an illegal activity? (viewing the porn on your laptop)

In terms of tangible goods, I believe the law applies more to the distribution side of refused material. If you try to distribute it, you're breaking the law. It goes without saying that customs will confiscate refused material given the chance.

I believe the Government is still trying to set up internet filtering / censorship. The usual tactic is pretend to do nothing, wait for outrage to subside, pass bill on the sly. The implications of such will be extending the ban on refused material to the internet (in addition to a bunch of other 'unacceptable' content).

Naturally it's the Government's duty to deem what and what's not appropriate. Recently:

• [adult performers with] small breasts - Possibly banned from publication because they incite pedophilia.
• Female ejaculation - possibly banned for even more dumbfounding reason.

Not sure exactly what's been written into law, but this stuff is on the table every month.

Australia is beyond ridiculous; thanks for the heads-up. A buddy of mine wants to travel there, I will definitely pass this info to him.

Scary shit!

Well, they don't allow small-chested women pictures, so porn is just the next step. :)

It's definitely getting a bit ridiculous. But that said, everyone is still relaxed as ever outside political circles... I guess that's why so much rubbish passes in parliament. It's probably still completely tourist friendly unless your buddy is concerned with looming internet censorship or banned porn dvds.

This world is getting lamer by the minute..

Isn't that a discrimination in it's pure manifestation?

my laptop always shows fake message "Missing operating system" after loading and waits for password but doesn't write about it... i don't plan to visit australia but I'm sure that australian customs will not be able to prove the fact of full system and data encryption on my laptop... of course i say that an hour ago in the plane it worked and loaded :pimp

the grass is green , the sun grows the grass, oh wait, i get where you are going with this, if you smoke porn you will get high ? ok i don't know where you are going with this..

obviously you have never visited south america :winkwink:
an airport like jfk must have like acres of these things or they are letting in alot of drugs.


shit that would explain alot, after swabbing my duffel bag i was whisked off to a small room, i assumed they had found my cumstain on the corner because i was really lonely the night before so i admitted i filled my duffel bag with jello and had sex with it in my hotel room, after a short videotaped re-enactment using airline pudding they let me go.
will they all be given art classes to differentiate between say the mona lisa and pamela anderson ?
Will they auction off the seized porn to porn friendly nations i wonder ?


ok maybe a broomstick is a bit large but im certain i could fit a few usb sticks up the old bunghole.

lucky custom guards.. i bet they're going to be finding some awesome stuff

damn I went and lived/worked in Australia twice, once in 2006 for 4 months then again in 2008 for 9 months.

Both times I went with an external HD chock full of porn.
The customs guys didn't even look at it twice when I went thru.

Sucks this is happening now, it's a great country imho..:2 cents:

So you can hire a hooker there, but can't bring your dirty electronic media so you can jack off instead of buying a hooker?

I get it, they are stimulating the Prostitution part of the economy. Yeah, makes total sense.

Maybe that's why porn is illegal in Thailand, but you can buy, well rent and fuck just about anything with a pulse there. It's economically sound really. (yeah right)

makes twisted sense really

damn, bad news

I went through immigration a week ago and ticked the 'no' box.
When you go through US customs, do you tick 'yes' that you're in for immoral/debase purposes or to consume / sell drugs?

Of course you don't.

So jerking is off in airport bathroom!

Damn....

Australia is becoming more gay every year...

Stasi 2.0

US customs search your files on your notebook too, what's the difference?!?!

You CAN bring porn into Australia as long as it complies with the local laws.
And yes, customs do watch the porn on DVD or your notebook to evaluate it IF they are in doubt.

If the porn is against the local laws, your notebook gets confiscated and you get fined, but you can still enter the country.