{"id":203,"date":"2006-10-28T08:52:45","date_gmt":"2006-10-27T22:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.msnaughty.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/28\/testing-australias-censorship-laws\/"},"modified":"2006-10-28T08:52:45","modified_gmt":"2006-10-27T22:52:45","slug":"testing-australias-censorship-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/28\/testing-australias-censorship-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"Testing Australia&#8217;s Censorship Laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian online adult retailer Adultshop.com is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/heraldsun\/story\/0,21985,20654464-2902,00.html\" target=\"blank\">challenging the Office of Film and Literature Classification<\/a> (OFLC) as to what constitutes &#8220;community standards.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ve appealed a decision by the OFLC giving the film <em>Viva Erotica<\/em> an X rating (which means it can only be sold in the ACT, NT and online). They say the film&#8217;s depiction of sex will not offend a &#8220;reasonable adult&#8221;, which is the criteria for handing out an X rating.<\/p>\n<p>Adultshop commissioned ACNielsen to conduct <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewest.com.au\/aapstory.aspx?StoryName=324584\" target=\"blank\">a survey of 1500 people<\/a> and discovered that <strong>70% of Australians don&#8217;t find explicit porn offensive<\/strong> and 75% thought such films should be available to people over 18.<\/p>\n<p>They say that OFLC does not reflect community standards and needs to change the way they classify adult material.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m with Adultshop on this one. The majority of people in this country like their porn, and they should be allowed to have it.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian online adult retailer Adultshop.com is challenging the Office of Film and Literature Classification (OFLC) as to what constitutes &#8220;community standards.&#8221; They&#8217;ve appealed a decision by the OFLC giving the film Viva Erotica an X rating (which means it can only be sold in the ACT, NT and online). They say the film&#8217;s depiction of sex will not offend a &#8220;reasonable adult&#8221;, which is the criteria for handing out an <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/28\/testing-australias-censorship-laws\/\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-porn"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}