Child pornography


Criminalising the imagination

ast month, Christopher Handley, a collector of comic books, pled guilty to federal charges of importing and possessing obscene cartoon drawings of children; he faces a maximum prison sentence of 15 years.

Guy Rundle: A minor indiscretion with the school cormorant

Guy Rundle’s school days.

The filtering wars: EFA vs Hamilton

EFA is concerned, as should anyone be, that the government is taking a new censorship power for itself that is opaque and not subject to review, writes Colin Jacobs.

Who supports compulsory Internet filtering, exactly?

GetUp!’s “Save The Net” campaign and a new survey by Netspace paint the supporters of compulsory Internet filtering as the minority, writes Stilgherrian.

The lies of the internet censors: Your. Filter. Won’t. Work.

It’s time to call the purveyors of pervasive internet censorship out on their lies and demand to know why they’re not advocating the real solutions to child s-xual abuse, writes Stilgherrian.

ISP filtering: who’s exploiting the kids?

The elevation of children as the justification for censorship will make this campaign harder to stop, writes Bernard Keane.

Lowbottom High Diaries: Vulnavia goes full frontal

But haven’t you got anyone closer to home, family say, who you can photograph?’ writes Trevor Diogenes.

Faris: Henson and school principal should be investigated

Bill Henson makes a lot of money photographing n-ked or semi-n-ked pre-pubescent children. This is called Art by the Left glitterati. Most decent Australians would call it P-rnography, writes Peter Faris.