By posting this video (which won a Polk Award a couple of days ago) here at this blog, I could face an $11,000 fine!!!
WHY?
"...Because this video was submitted to the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) who requested a determination from the Classification Board.
Based on the Board's decision, ACMA declared the video to be "prohibited content" under clause 20(1)(b) of Schedule 7 to the Broadcasting Services Act 1992.' This means that all known links to the video will find their way onto the Internet Filter blacklist...
...This is a crucially important piece of video which will be seen and recognised as such throughout the world, but (officially) not in Australia. Perhaps we should go out on a limb and praise this instead. After-all, soon it will be the toughest material we'll be permitted to see.
Our Federal Government must be made to understand the foolishness of their Internet Filter proposal...
"All censorships exist to prevent any one from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently the first condition of progress is the removal of censorships." - George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
"Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself." - Potter Stewart (1915 - 1985)
"We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship." - E. M. Forster (1879 - 1970)"
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