So in late January, the Australian Classification Bureau “banned mainstream pornography from showing women with A-cup breasts, apparently on the grounds that they encourage paedophilia…” thus criminalizing women with small tits who want to be in adult movies and publications. Oh also, they banned the depiction of female ejaculation. Because it’s “abhorrent”.
I find this just… bizarre. A government codifying what its citizens should find attractive? A government effectively criminalizing a body shape that it has randomly decided is inappropriate for its adult citizens to have or admire? The mind boggles. But rest assured, our nerds-in-arms will not let this one slide. Part of a recent wave of protests is Operation Titstorm — where anonymous DDoS’ers (Distributed Denial of Service) took down the websites of Senator Stephen Conroy and the entire Australian Parliament House. Said “Anonymous” to the Australian media:
Australia’s laws on internet censorship are already among the most restrictive in the western world. Their government filters more internet content than any other Parliamentary Democracy. For some elements within the Government, including Telecommunications Minister Senator Stephen Conroy, this still is not enough. Late in January of 2009 he proposed legislature that would lead to mandatory ISP filtering for all of Australia. The stated goal is to prevent Australia from viewing ‘illegal and unwanted content’ on the Internet. The ambiguity of the term ‘unwanted content’ is completely unacceptable. No government should have the right to refuse its citizens access to information solely because they perceive it to be ‘unwanted’.
I’d hate to see how this legislation is affecting the plastic surgery rate…
via BoingBoing and Channelnews
