Title: Community, space and online censorship : regulating pornotopia /
Authors: Beattie, Scott.
Publisher: Ashgate,
Year: 2009
Subjects: Australia.; Obscenity (Law) Australia.; Pornography Law and legislation Australia.; Internet Law and legislation Australia.
Abstract: While the media sound alarms at the dangers of online life, the uncontrollable nature of the Internet makes any kind of pervasive regulatory control impossible. This book compares the Australian solution, a set of laws which have been criticised as being both draconian and ineffectual, to major regulatory systems in the UK and US.
Contents: Introduction : classification refused -- "Protect me from what I want" : censorship and internet classification -- Co-regulation and symbolic policy : The Broadcasting Services Amendment (Online Services) Act 1999 -- "Taking the red pill" : cyberspace, jurispace and the architecture of regulation -- Sexx laws : the spatial strategies of censorship -- Censorship, power and regulatory communities.