One naked photo, many lives ruinedOne day, a 14 year old girl sent a picture of herself naked to her boyfriend. Within weeks the entire school had seen the photo, children were charged with child pornography distribution and an entire community was battling the distressing effects of child ‘sexting’.
Child pornography
Photography and the fascination of erotic youth
Soon Bill Henson’s current show will packed away with barely a squeak about censorship or his “revolting” art. But there is something about the nude minor that jangles a major chord in us, writes W H Chong.
Naked Aboriginal kids on postcards: the line between art and exploitation?
You can buy postcards featuring naked Aboriginal kids in newsagencies and Australia Post shops across the country. Why aren’t these pictures treated with the same outrage as Bill Henson’s photos of naked teens?
Conroy’s plan has nothing to do with kiddie porn
The “Refused Classification” content that will be blocked by Conroy’s internet filter is not the same as “illegal” content, explains Mark Newton: much of it is perfectly legal content that someone, somewhere found a bit offensive.
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.
