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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 ...
Norman Lindsay's Redheap was the first book to be banned from import into Australia, in May 1930, under the Commonwealth Customs Act 1901. [28] This was before the establishment of the Commonwealth Book Censorship Board in 1933 by Prime Minister Joseph Lyons' United Australia Party, which was renamed the Literature Censorship Board in 1937. [29]
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 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 ...
Children under 16 will be banned from using social media, Australia has said. The country’s government said the new legislation was a world-leading attempt to deal with the dangers posed to ...
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.
SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia on Thursday approved a social media ban for children aged under 16 after an emotive debate that gripped the nation, setting a benchmark for jurisdictions around the ...
Banned in April 1977 due to "indecency and indecent violence". A censored VHS tape to remove "indecent violence" was released in May, bearing nearly 10 minutes of cuts. Allowed in a cut version, rated R18+ [15] 1980 Caligula: Explicit scenes of sex and violence In 1981 the ban was lifted, and a modified version with the rating R18+ was allowed.