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Internet censorship in Australia is enforced by both the country's criminal law [1] [2] as well as voluntarily enacted by internet service providers. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has the power to enforce content restrictions on Internet content hosted within Australia, and maintain a blocklist of overseas ...
2008 (ban applied in 2007) [17] Skepta (Joseph Junior Adenuga) United Kingdom: Rapper Punching a man at a nightclub in Melbourne in 2016. 2019 Tyler, The Creator (Tyler Gregory Okanoma) United States: Rapper Alleged promotion of violence against women. 2019 (ban claimed to be in effect around 2015) Mike Tyson United States: Professional boxer
Norman Lindsay's Redheap was the first book to be banned from import into Australia, in May 1930, under the Commonwealth Customs Act 1901. [28] This was before the establishment of the Commonwealth Book Censorship Board in 1933 by Prime Minister Joseph Lyons ' United Australia Party, which was renamed the Literature Censorship Board in 1937. [ 29 ]
Australia’s lawmakers have voted to ban those under the age of 16 from using social media—even if their parents are okay with it.. On Friday morning, Australia’s House of Representatives ...
Australia approved on Thursday a social media ban for children aged under 16 after an emotive debate that has gripped the nation, setting a benchmark for jurisdictions around the world with one of ...
Social networks to be punished if they do not comply with minimum age rules
Tasmania was (at the time) the only Australian state in which homosexuality (specifically "gay male sexual activity") was illegal. The festival has now moved to Melbourne. Banned in Tasmania, still unrated by the Australian Classification Board. As the law changed soon after this incident, the films would presumably be allowed in Tasmania and ...
The list depicted below is of games that are either still banned, or were initially banned but have been edited exclusively for Australia. Some of these games were banned before the introduction of the R18+ category; if some of these games were to be re-rated today, they would likely receive the R18+ rating.