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Australian Censorship: Protest Sites
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Worldwide Censorship
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Australian Censorship: Protest Sites

The Chopping List

A highly recommended database of movies that have been banned or censored in Australia. As well as OFLC decisions, it includes many titles released cut in Australia because of distributors.

Michael D's R4 DVD Info Page

Great site to keep up to date with all the Region 4 DVD news. Includes a very useful censorship section that covers all the different versions of DVDs

GetUp!: Save the Net

The GetUp! campaign to stop internet censorship was launched after they received more emails urging them to act on this issue than any other in recent history.

Somebody Think of the Children!

Michael Meloni's blog will keep you up to date with a wide range of Australian censorship issues, with a particular focus on the threat of internet filtering.

Electronic Frontiers Australia

Another Australian group concerned about the situation we have here. Covers all forms of censorship, with a particular emphasis on internet regulation. Their Stop-Censorship discussion list is well worth joining.

No Clean Feed

Electronic Frontiers Australia launched this site in 2008 with the intention of fighting Stephen Conroy's plans to filter the internet.

Electronic Freedom Project

Write to your local member, ask them their views about internet censorship, then post their response on the EFP wiki. This is a simple, but highly effective tool. What we need now is an R18+ games wiki?

Leave the Net Alone

Blog covering all the latest developments in Conroy's plans to censor the internet.

Broadbanned Revolution

Jon Seymour's anti-filtering blog.

nocensorship.info

Website of the Digital Liberty Coalition, a group whose mission it is to stand up for free speech online.

Keep Your Filter Off Our Internet

Anti-filtering site run by the Australian Web Industry Association.

Stop The Clean Feed

Anti-filtering site with many ideas regarding the best ways to protest.

broowery.com

Australian site covering many internet censorship issues.

Australian Internet Filtering Wiki

This wiki from Overclockers Australia looks at the history of internet censorship in this country.

The State of Censorship

Great Australian site that will give you a good history of censorship in this country, as well as all the news concerning the current debate.

Bob Bain's Blog

Bob Bain covers many censorship related items on his blog.

NoCensorshipAus

Australian censorship news blog which welcomes contributions. They also maintain a great collection of Australian censorship clips at You Tube.

No Censorship Forum

Australian anti-censorship forum. Sign-up to their no-censorship mailing list for further discussions.

Internet Censorship & Civil Liberties in Australia

Danny Yee's site looks at a variety of censorship issues in Australia.

R18+ for Games

Another site from Electronic Frontiers Australia this time campaigning for an R18+ rating for games.

Gamers4Croydon

Political party set up following the 2009 banning of the game LEFT 4 DEAD 2. The aim is to run a candidate against the South Australian Attorney General in the 2010 State election.

R18games.com.au

You can never have too many sites working towards an R18+ games rating. Here you will find all the latest games censorship news, as well as ways you can get your opinions heard by politicians.

Everyone Plays

A site dedicated to fighting for an R18+ games rating. Includes tips on how to help make it happen.

Grow up Australia

A community dedicated to supporting the various R18+ game rating groups and events.

Games Censorship Collection

One of Australia's first anti-censorship sites. Although it has not been updated in a while, it still provides an excellent resource detailing the early years of games censorship in Australia.

The Australian Sex Party

Launched in November 2008 with policies that oppose internet censorship and support an R18+ for games. If you are sick of the moral minority dictating what you can see, hear, and do, then make your vote count.

Eros Association

In the front line in the battle against censorship in Australia is this Adult Industry body. The website contains a collection of articles, as well as news on the latest restrictions. A subscription to their magazine, The Eros Journal is essential for anyone who wishes to keep up to date with the latest censorship news.

Deception

Established by the Eros Association in 2004. This site aims to help its members defend their business against constant attacks by Christian groups. The site details the hundreds of church clergy who have been perpetrators of sex crime.

voting.org.au

Sponsored by the Eros Association, and established to counter the effect of the Religious Right. The aim of the site is to find out exactly how each politician feels about censorship. All you need to do is register your name, postcode, and e-mail address, and Eros will do the rest. This has the potential to become an important weapon in the fight against censorship in Australia. So get signed up!

I Love Sex

"Tell the pollies to stay out of your bedroom"
Established by the Australian Adult industry to lobby politicians to change the X-Rated laws. The take action page of the site allows you to send a letter to the Attorney-General, and your State Premier.

Censorship.Adultshop.com

Online Adult goods store Adultshop.com launched this site in response to the increasing censorship of hardcore films in Australia. The forums offer the opportunity to get your views heard.

End Censorship in Australia

Another very informative Australian site. Includes some good tips on how to fight censorship.

Watch on Censorship

Australian group aiming to spread the word about censorship.

Banned in Australia

This database from the AustLit Research community covers Federal publications censorship from 1901 to 1973. A subscription is required to access the database, though it is freely available in most libraries.

Australian Privacy Foundation

A site dedicated to protecting the privacy rights of Australians.

Civil Liberties Australia

Protecting people's freedoms.
Their campaign at censorfree.com.au is aimed at fighting internet filtering.

NSW Council for Civil Liberties

One of Australia’s leading human rights and civil liberties organisations.

Queensland Council for Civil Liberties

Voluntary organisation concerned with the protection of individual rights and civil liberties.

Victorian Council for Civil Liberties

Liberty Victoria is an independent non-government organisation committed to the defence and extension of human rights and civil liberties.

Australian Censorship: Regulation

The Classification Website

The Australian Government's home of censorship. Here you can find information regarding the Classification Board, Classification Review Board and the Attorney-General's Department. This replaced the Office of Film and Literature Classification (OFLC) on July 1st 2007.

It includes the database of censorship decisions, which although much improved, is still far from perfect. Check out the BBFC site (see below) to see how it should be done.

South Australian Classification Council

Quite why this useless and unnecessary organisation still exists is a mystery. Despite Australia having a national classification system since January 1996, S.A. still attempts to keep some control. It made the headlines in 2005 when it increased the rating of 9 SONGS from R18+, back up to X18+. Their 2002-2003 Annual Report shows that they had a total of 44 complaints during the year. Maybe those of you in South Australia need to complain why such a Department is still around in your State.

Standing Committee of Attorneys-General (Censorship)

Twice a year the State Ministers responsible for censorship meet to discuss policy. If we ever get an R18+ games rating then the decision will be made here.

Australian Communications and Media Authority

The ACMA is responsible for the regulation of broadcasting, radiocommunications, telecommunications and online content in Australia. The site contains links to all the various codes that govern these various media.

Advertising Standards Bureau

The ASB is the place to go if you have a problem with an advertisment. Take a look at their database to read hundreds of unnecessary complaints from the general public. Quite rightly most are dismissed.

ARIA Labelling Code of Practice

Details the classification labels used by the Australian Record Industry Association Ltd (ARIA) and the Australian Music Retailers’ Association (AMRA). Contains a link to a list of all the CDs and tapes classified since 1996.

Customs (Prohibited Imports) Regulation 4A

Provides details of the law under which customs may confiscate "objectionable goods".

Censorship and Classification in Australia

Part of the Department of the Parliamentary Library, it contains a great overview of Australian Censorship. Of particular interest are the links to all the current legislation. If you want to know the law and how it applies to you in your home State then look no further.

Worldwide Censorship

Melon Farmers' Video Hits

The most comprehensive film censorship site on the web! Naturally it comes from the UK, a country with more than its fair share of problems.

British Board of Film Classification

One of the strictest censorship boards in the Western world has recently revised its guidelines. Despite these changes they still ban and demand cuts of many more films than our own censors. There database of decisions is however vastly superior to the one on the OFLC site.

Worldwide DVD Forums

UK DVD site that also covers film censorship. Includes a forum dedicated to our own OFLC.

DVD Compare

UK site that compares different DVD releases from around the world.

New Zealand Office of Film & Literature Classification

See how it's done across the Tasman. Things seem to be a little more liberal over there, X-Rated tapes for rent in the local Video Ezy. Some titles that have been banned/cut in Australia in the past, have had uncut releases in New Zealand. Unfortunately, due to the small market the vast majority of tapes are imports from Australia, which means they suffer from second hand censorship.

The Film Society of New Zealand

This is an excellent place to start if you wish to learn more about censorship in New Zealand. In the 1970's the Film Society movement was at the forefront of the campaign to achieve censorship reform. Details of which are now reproduced in the wiki on the site.

Gomorrahy.com

Censorship in Canada. Unlike our own highly secretive ACS, the Canadian Customs make public a list of all titles that they have confiscated. Their Quarterly List of Admissible and Prohibited Titles are reproduced here.

Schnittberichte.com

Excellent German language site that compares cut films against uncut versions. There are enough images here to keep English only readers more than occupied.

movie-censorship.com

English language version of Schnittberichte.com. Not as many entries as the German language site, but this is sure to grow. Good for finding the answer to all those R-Rated vs. Unrated vs. Theatrical version vs. Extended Cut vs. Director's Cut, questions that every film now seems to throw up.

Film Sites

Digital Retribution

The site to visit for all Australian Horror, Cult, and Exploitation fans. News, reviews, and a very lively forum.

pre-cert.co.uk

A database of all the video tapes released in the UK up until mid-80's censorship removed them from the shelves. The Australian Pre-Certs section of the forum is the place to discuss all the K&C, King of Video, and Starbase releases we know and love. It now houses a database of over 3000 titles released on video tape in Australia.

Phantom of Pulp

The blog of Aussie Director Mark Savage covers a huge range topics. Where else are you going to find Enid Blyton and Guy N. Smith sharing space?

Accent Film Entertainment

Australian theatrical and DVD releasing company behind such censor baiting titles as IRREVERSIBLE and 9 SONGS. Ended up on the wrong side of the Classification Board in 2007 when they received an RC for the documentary NO BODY IS PERFECT.

Siren Visual Entertainment

Australia's most daring video and DVD company has a long history of releasing challenging films. This has brought it into conflict with the censors on a number of occasions, making it the most targeted non-porn company we have. RC ratings were received in the 90's for TOMBS OF THE BLIND DEAD, FEMALE VAMPIRE, and VIRGIN AMONG THE LIVING DEAD. Whilst the past few years have seen IN A GLASS CAGE, THE GORE GORE GIRLS, DARLING, HOOLIGAN, SPOTLIGHT, MY BROTHER'S WIFE, HOLY VIRGINS, and SLAVES TO PASSION all hit with RC ratings. They are also responsible for the release of CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST, what more do you need to say!

Umbrella Entertainment

Australian DVD company that has issued a number of previously controversial titles such as MANIAC, LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT, and ZOMBIE FLESH EATERS. They have also been subjected to some modern day censorship with the 2007 banning of FACES OF DEATH 2 to 4. Give them your support

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