Incest stories legal in Australia?

[poison824]

Heyas everyone

Haven't been able to find the answer anywhere but...

Just wondering if posting an incest story (no minors) was legal in Australia. With the Australian censorship thing and stuff I'm worried cause I don't wanna post a story and get busted with legal stuff.

Is reading about it legal in Australia as well?

Cheers
-poison

 

[bronzeage]

Does Australia really have a police squad whose job is to figure out who posted a dirty story on the internet?

 

[Trinique_Fire]

Does Australia really have a police squad whose job is to figure out who posted a dirty story on the internet?

*laughs* Exactly what I was thinking.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

That makes it a quorum. I get the same kind of feeling whenever the People's Republik of Kalifornia passes some law about things that take place legally in other states. I mean, how the F**K do they expect to enforce such twaddle?

 

[Stella_Omega]

You may be in Australia, but your story will be posted on an American site. It won't legally reside in Australia.

If you can reach the site from your internet connection, you can read what is on it. If you do not download the files to your own computer, and if you delete your browsing history, there won't be much evidence available in a search.

 

[poison824]

haha thanks guys.

ull never know with australia. we're getting like a internet censorship soon if this party gets into power, dont want it to be like china

 

[fuckwaffle]

don't forget to also clear your cache when you are done reading.

i thought the law in aussieland was even if it was hosted somewhere else if it originated in aussieland it was a crime?

 

[ishtat]

Does Australia really have a police squad whose job is to figure out who posted a dirty story on the internet?

No but one of our ministers would like to... I think this is what the first post referred to.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_Australia#Leaking_of_the_ACMA_blacklist

The minister is a conservative Catholic Labor Party Senator who under the guise of filtering child pornography sought to censor many other sites. Wikileaks has essentially discredited him.

I suspect Australians would trust pornographers ahead of politicians.

 

[Stella_Omega]

don't forget to also clear your cache when you are done reading.

i thought the law in aussieland was even if it was hosted somewhere else if it originated in aussieland it was a crime?

How would they be able to prove that it originated in Oz? Or who the pseudonym belongs to?

 

[voluptuary_manque]

I suspect Australians would trust pornographers ahead of politicians.

No surprise there!

 

[fuckwaffle]

How would they be able to prove that it originated in Oz? Or who the pseudonym belongs to?

IDK...i just heard that was the way it was down under.

 

[ishtat]

Heyas everyone

Haven't been able to find the answer anywhere but...

Just wondering if posting an incest story (no minors) was legal in Australia. With the Australian censorship thing and stuff I'm worried cause I don't wanna post a story and get busted with legal stuff.

Is reading about it legal in Australia as well?

Cheers
-poison

It just occurred to me that if this was true we would have to censor big chunks of the Bible. Abraham and Sarah for example were married and produced Isaac despite the fact that they had the same father.

 

[oggbashan]

You may be in Australia, but your story will be posted on an American site. It won't legally reside in Australia.

...

That's the problem with UK libel laws. If it is "published" in the UK, by which case law has been that even if one copy of the libel has been physically imported into the UK, or the text can be accessed electronically by UK residents, then there is a case to sue the author in the UK under libel laws which result in larger payouts than anywhere else in the world.

That applies even if the author of the libel and the person libelled are US citizens who have never visited the UK in person.

The new coalition government has promised to review the UK's libel laws to make defending against an alleged libel easier, and the definitions of "published and/or distributed in the UK" harder to prove.

Og

 

[Trudy_Antone]

haha thanks guys.

ull never know with australia. we're getting like a internet censorship soon if this party gets into power, dont want it to be like china

Which party are you talking about Poison? BOTH major parties agreed to it - Effing bunch of nannies. And unless you are regularly downloading, sharing, or producing kiddie porn, the internet filter won't affect you, and Australian Federal Police won't give a damn about you. It is NOT ILLEGAL to think things or write them. Especially when all your characters are the legal age of consent.

(Fellow Aussie).

 

[Pure]

note to ishtat

thanks for the link to the wiki article on internet censorship in Oz.

it was a fascinating article. as you stated, the usual progression is occurring, once it's agreed that child porn is to be censored [in this case, filtered]. we are talking, here, about pictorial material (photos, vids, etc.).

i gather categories for exclusion have varied but include such categories as 'excessive violence' , sexual violence, "hard core" (actual sexual acts) and even fetish. add to that, procedures for suicide and advocacy of terrorism.

some of these appear valid categories which might be a focus of public policiy. but with the doors opened, one reads of this proposal, which has been enacted in the US:

[screening/censoring of materials]
unsuitable for children

this doesn't just mean children depicted, but any depiction of adults, which one wouldn't want a child to see. "unsuitable for minors" clauses would effectively ban millions of sites, and if extended to written materials, would censor/filter sites like Literotica. i believe the US Supreme Court has already struck down one such proposal, because of its impingement on adult free speech [and access to others' free speech].


from wiki article on Oz internet censorship

Two Blacklists
As of October 2008, the plan [for gov't internet filtering] includes two blacklists, the first used to filter "illegal" content, and the second used to filter additional content unsuitable for children. The first filter will be mandatory for all users of the internet, while the second filter allows opting out. The government will not release details of the content on either list,[53] but has stated that the mandatory filter would include at least 10,000 sites, and include both the ACMA blacklist and UK's Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) blacklist. In December 2008 the IWF list caused problems when the Wikipedia article Virgin Killer was added to the list, as it prevented many people in the UK from being able to edit Wikipedia.

The ACMA definitions of "prohibited content" give some idea of what could potentially be blacklisted. Online content prohibited by ACMA includes:

Any online content that is classified RC or X 18+ by the Classification Board. This includes real depictions of actual sexual activity, child pornography, depictions of bestiality, material containing excessive violence or sexual violence, detailed instruction in crime, violence or drug use, and/or material that advocates the doing of a terrorist act.
Content which is classified R 18+* and not subject to a restricted access system that prevents access by children. This includes depictions of simulated sexual activity, material containing strong, realistic violence and other material dealing with intense adult themes.[54]

 

[3113]

don't forget to also clear your cache when you are done reading.

And check over your shoulder to make sure no censor police are watching what you're reading

 

[TxRad]

See I told ya so.

First they take your guns and then they take your porn.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Why do Australians keep electing these people? A majority of them must be terribly afraid of something.

 

[fuckwaffle]

And check over your shoulder to make sure no censor police are watching what you're reading

how true. it appears that george orwell's prophesy is coming true in down under instead of here in 'merica. not quite 1984 but close enough.

 

[Bebeslut]

[QUOTE I suspect Australians would trust pornographers ahead of politicians.[/QUOTE]

Who wouldn't?