SA to ban posting of violent images online
- 16 March, 2011 18:02
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South Australian Attorney-General, John Rau, has announced the state government has proposed legislation to ban the posting of violent and degrading images online.
The bill will be introduced to parliament this year.
A viral video of a student violently retaliating against a school bully may have prompted the legislation. The aim is to make those that willingly film or lend their personal recording device to film a violent act accountable.
"The government wants to attack this disgusting fad of thugs engineering and filming violent and humiliating acts and posting the images to websites," Mr Rau said. “This behaviour is so disturbing and potentially damaging to the victims that I believe the creators of these images should be subject to severe penalties, including jail sentences.”
Last year, Rau took over from Michael Atkinson, who was a strong proponent of banning refused classification video games, much to the dismay of the gaming industry.
Australia remains one of the few countries without an R18+ video games classification system.
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Comments
Kevin
And so they should be banned but how.
The SA government has no control over anything outside of SA and Mr Rau, the Internet is global. Anyone can post anything anywhere anonymously and there is not a thing you or anyone can do about it.
Spend your time and money in educating computer and Internet illiterate parents because most violent pictures come from adolescents.
The sites that accept these images/videos make money out of them. That is where the attack should be and the first step is force banks to block any funds going to those sites.
If Visa did that worldwide these sites would shut down overnight.
Anon
My problem with this bill is it may make it illegal for people to film police using excessive force or the thugish behaviour of nightclub bouncers.
gageflue
Spacious post, definitely helpful, I suffer with to say that if ones snare spot like this on of Target was so unhelpful to the shopper using it, why would this shopper put in an appearance aid, or to tick off anyone else to put to use it. This can be deeply damaging to a 70-293 province in the long run.
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