Community, space and online censorship
Subtitle: regulating pornotopia
By: by Scott Beattie.
Publisher: Burlington, VT ; Ashgate Pub. Company
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, England
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780754673088; 9780754689393
Subjects: Australia; Obscenity (Law) -- Australia; Pornography -- Law and legislation -- Australia; Internet -- Law and legislation -- Australia
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: classification refused; title: "Protect me from what I want" : censorship and internet classification; title: Co-regulation and symbolic policy : the Broadcasting Services Amendment (Online Services) Act 1999; title: "Taking the red pill" :  cyberspace, jurispace and the architecture of regulation; title: Sexx laws : the spatial strategies of censorship; title: Censorship, power and regulatory communities.