KRudd the fascist scum wants to know if you bring porn to Australia. /Fuck this shit/ (1 Viewer)

[BigBoyJames__]

Travellers to be searched for porn
ASHER MOSES
May 20, 2010 - 2:06PM
Comments 75
Australian customs officers have been given new powers to search incoming travellers' laptops and mobile phones for pornography, a spokeswoman for the Australian sex industry says.

Fiona Patten, president of the Australian Sex Party, is demanding an inquiry into why a new question appears on Incoming Passenger Cards asking people if they are carrying "pornography".

Patten said officials now had an unfettered right to examine travellers' electronic devices, marking the beginning of a new era of official investigation into people's private lives. She questioned whether it was appropriate to search people for legal R18+ and X18+ material.

“Is it fair that customs officers rummage through someone's luggage and pull out a legal men's magazine or a lesbian journal in front of their children or their mother-in-law?” she said.

"If you and your partner have filmed or photographed yourselves making love in an exotic destination or even taking a bath, you will have to answer 'Yes' to the question or you will be breaking the law."

Customs has not yet commented on Patten's claims, with a spokesman saying a response was still being formulated.

However, it is understood that the "pornography" question has appeared on Incoming Passenger Cards since September last year. The change was only spotted by Patten earlier this month and it had received little to no coverage in the media.

Colin Jacobs, chairman of the lobby group Electronic Frontiers Australia, said the change appeared to have sneaked under the radar "without any public consultation about the massive privacy issues".

"It's hard to fathom what the pressing concern could be that requires Australia to quiz every entrant to the country on their pornography habits, as if visitors would be aware of the nuances of the Australian classification scheme," he said.

"If this results in Customs trawling through more private information on laptops searching for contraband, I would say the solution is way worse than the problem."

Patten said if the question was designed to stop child pornography being smuggled into the country then the question should have been asked about "child pornography", without encompassing regular porn.

Hetty Johnson, chief executive of child protection group Bravehearts, agreed with Patten that the question was too broad. She said it should only apply to illegal pornography.

"If it said child porn I'd be 100 per cent behind it - if you're carrying child pornography then you deserve everything you get," she said in a phone interview.

The issue has echoes of the 1956 detention of famed British conductor and composer Sir Eugene Goossens who had his bag searched upon his return from Europe.

He was carrying material that was considered, at the time, pornographic and his reputation was subsequently ruined, forcing him to flee the country.

"The term pornography is not referred to at all in the federal Classification Act, which customs relies on to classify their material," Patten said.

fuck krudd voters.

 

[jennyfromdabloc]

Re: KRudd the fascist scum wants to know if you bring porn to Australia. /Fuck this s

This is a great idea since most illegal pornography is brought into the country by people carrying it through customs on physical media.

Come to think of it, I can't think of any other way that criminals could possibly transfer data.

 

[Chemical Ali]

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This is a great idea since most illegal pornography is brought into the country by people carrying it through customs on physical media.

Come to think of it, I can't think of any other way that criminals could possibly transfer data.

i know right, it's not like anyone's invented some kinda magical box where you can deposit porn, and then retrieve, or say 'down load' it somewhere else in the physical world

 

[FutureSight01]

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This is a serious violation of human rights. -> Violation of the right to privacy.

If Rudd wants to enforce pornographic censorship on Australia, then another human rights violation is made. -> Violation of the right to have freedom of thought. Don't people have the right to have thoughts about sex acts? (OK maybe I'm saying bullshit stuff here)

I don't have statistics, but doesn't porn reduce rape crime rates? (I may be wrong here.)

If Rudd has made a deal with China to enforce censorship over Australia, then another human rights violation is made. ->Violation of the right to have freedom of information.

There is no reason to enforce censorship over Australia at all (except for child pornography.)


Feel free to criticise my comment.

Opposite effect. Porn use increases desire for pornographic material and sexual activity, similar to a drug.

 

[runoutofsleep]

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Opposite effect. Porn use increases desire for pornographic material and sexual activity, similar to a drug.

hi future sight 01

i think you forgot to address the effect of porn on rape rates in this post about the effect of porn on rape rates! D'OH!!!

don't worry it's an easy mistake to make

perhaps you would like to fix this by referring to statistics or a logical argument

 

[Graney]

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Are you carrying child pornography?

yes/no

 

[Graney]

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The police should go through the phone book, cold calling people and asking them if they've committed any crimes.

 

[SnowFox]

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This is a great idea since most illegal pornography is brought into the country by people carrying it through customs on physical media.

Come to think of it, I can't think of any other way that criminals could possibly transfer data.

Oh god...

 

[jazzzod]

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This is so fail. A 2 year old could disguise files and with ease get past any brisk inspection...

 

[Phoenix Fury]

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Oh god...

You don't see the sarcasm in that post?

EDIT: Omg you put it as your sig, fuck lol.

 

[SnowFox]

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Porn.

Lipstick USB drive.

Not working.

 

[SnowFox]

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You don't see the sarcasm in that post?

EDIT: Omg you put it as your sig, fuck lol.

Lol fail, to much working for me!

 

[iRuler]

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Kevin Rudd is a fucking mother fucker, what the fuck is wrong with him, he's just making Australia look bad, like it's the only country with porn in it or cares so much about it.

 

[Phoenix Fury]

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lawl

 

[runoutofsleep]

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this has nothing to do with kevin rudd

 

[BigBoyJames__]

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what is the difference between Islamic countries and Labour Australia?

Krudd is white.

but i think he is trying to be Chinese, check out his eyes ten years ago and today.

 

[abbeyroad]

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he is Chinese they killed krud when he was a diplomat over there and put his skin on one of their agents I've been telling you guys that for years

 

[Slidey]

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Fucking nanny state.

 

[Chemical Ali]

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The police should go through the phone book, cold calling people and asking them if they've committed any crimes.

"Are you the beer baron?"

 

[Jazuzi]

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my dad made beer once at home it made the house smelled like yeast or some other thing i dont know