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Amir Butler: Why I have changed my mind on anti-vilification laws (An article originally published in The Age newspaper) Refused Classification – an online database of media either censored or banned in Australia; Internet Censorship in Australia by Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA), a group that opposes government attempts to censor the ...
Internet censorship in Australia is enforced by both the country's criminal law [1] [2] as well as voluntarily enacted by internet service providers. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has the power to enforce content restrictions on Internet content hosted within Australia, and maintain a blocklist of overseas ...
Internationally, the ban could strain Australia’s relations with the US, where Elon Musk, owner of X, called it a “backdoor way to control access to the internet by all Australians ...
Australia’s social media ban is one of the toughest targeting Big Tech, but it’s not without precedent. Last year, France passed legislation that requires children under 15 to get a parent’s ...
Australia’s House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a bill that would ban children younger than 16 years old from social media. That leaves it up to the Senate to finalize the world-first law.
2008 (ban applied in 2007) [17] Skepta (Joseph Junior Adenuga) United Kingdom: Rapper Punching a man at a nightclub in Melbourne in 2016. 2019 Tyler, The Creator (Tyler Gregory Okanoma) United States: Rapper Alleged promotion of violence against women. 2019 (ban claimed to be in effect around 2015) Mike Tyson United States: Professional boxer
Australia’s parliament has passed a world-first law banning social media for children under 16, putting tech companies on notice to tighten security before a cut-off date that’s yet to be set.
The list depicted below is of games that are either still banned, or were initially banned but have been edited exclusively for Australia. Some of these games were banned before the introduction of the R18+ category; if some of these games were to be re-rated today, they would likely receive the R18+ rating.