Australian Sex Party vs Kevin Rudd
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- “Have you heard about this new Australian Sex Party?” – Luke asks in a Reader’s Write to yesterday’s post on the fact Oz leader Kevin Rudd appears to have come seriously adrift in his efforts to tell Australians what they can and can’t see online.
“Interesting stuff,” says Luke. “Check it out.”
So we did and, “Tired of ‘hypocrites’ and ‘wowsers’ (an Australian slang term for an obtrusively puritanical person)?”" – asks Breaking Free, continuing »»»
The Sex Party hopes to save their nation from such people. The woman you see in this video is the party`s convenor, Fiona Patten, the head of the Eros Association, the national adult retail and entertainment lobby group.
What has triggered this new party line? Patten says the trigger has been the Australian government`s decision to place a mandatory filter on the Internet.
The Filter
The Australian Internet filter has been a topic of discussion for some time now. Patten`s concern is that the filter will actually blacklist any and all adult sites.
Currently this mandatory Internet filter is being primed to block 10,000 websites as part of a blacklist of unwanted content, which includes 1300 websites already blacklisted by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA).
Communications Minister Stephen Conroy recently spoke in Federal Parliament about the live trial of this filter technology that will last six weeks. This pilot “will test against this list as well as filtering for a range of URLs to around 10,000 so that the impacts on network performance of a larger blacklist can be examined.”
What will the ACMA consider as “unwanted content”? Under the Australian government`s $125.8 million Plan for Cyber-Safety, users will be able to switch between two blacklists which block content that is inappropriate for children, and a separate list which blocks illegal material.
The Sex Party
Sex Party convenor Fiona Patten asks, “Basically, should what happens in your bedroom be decided by minority religious lobby groups?” She gives an unqualified “No.”
The party will seek to overturn this mandatory ISP filtering and return Internet censorship to parents and individuals. What other policies will the Sex Party have? These are some of their objectives quoted directly from the party`s website:
- Develop global approaches to tackling child pornography which focus on production of the material rather than its distribution.
- To bring about the development of a national sex education curriculum for secondary schools as a first step in preventing the sexualization of children.
- To hold a referendum to create mandatory equal numbers of women in the Senate and State Upper Houses.
- Abolish sex slavery and sexual servitude by introducing non morality-based immigration policies that allow bona-fide sex workers to work legally in Australia.
- To bring about the establishment of a truly national classification scheme which includes a uniform non-violent erotica rating for explicit adult material for all jurisdictions and through all media including the Internet and computer games.
- To enact national pregnancy termination laws along the same lines as divorce law â which allow for legal, no-fault and guilt-free processes for women seeking termination.
- Overturn restrictions on aid to overseas family planning organizations that reference abortion.
- To create total equal rights in all areas of the law for gay, lesbian and transsexual couples.
What chance does the Sex Party have? Patten comments that there is four million customers of adult shops in Australia, so the Party believes it has a real chance of winning seats in the state and federal parliaments. Patten also hopes the 1000 or so adult shops around the country would become Sex Party branches.
Definitely stay tuned.
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December 11th, 2008 at 7:49 pm
I’d vote for them- not because I’m a huge supporter of open sexuality, but because I believe that (within reason) no one person or group should be able to force their beliefs on others; e.g. if this alleged “religious lobby group” is against porn, what right does that give them to determine access to porn for everyone who is not a member of their belief system?
December 11th, 2008 at 10:55 pm
“Religion is the opiate of the people” (c) Karl Marx.
In the meantime, here is another one for you, Jon:
http://digg.com/linux_unix/Teacher_threatens_to_call_the_cops_over_Linux
“At this point, I am not sure what you are doing is legal. No software is free and spreading that misconception is harmful. I will research this as time allows and I want to assure you, if you are doing anything illegal, I will pursue charges as the law allows.”
Not content with completely missing the point of Linux, Karen concluded by throwing down the ultimate insult to the Linux advocates: “This is a world where Windows runs on virtually every computer and putting on a carnival show for an operating system is not helping these children at all.
“I am sure if you contacted Microsoft, they would be more than happy to supply you with copies of an older verison of Windows and that way, your computers would actually be of service to those receiving them…”
An unpaid Microsoft ambassador!
December 12th, 2008 at 1:28 pm
Id like to be the Head of her Association
Oh my!