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Story: Porn access debate hots up in Australia

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When are governments going to concentrate on issues that have the potential to constitute real abuse, like child porn and paedophilic activity and stop confusing and diluting the real fight against child abuse.

Porn that is already available legally in other forms of media will never be controlled as different countries have differerent definitions of what is acceptable...and even if that was a barrier that could be overcome in the global information highway, free speech supporters will knock it down.

Any public political posturing about banning porn per se is just a transparent election build up attempt to placate the vocal moralistic minority.

I am a dedicated parent, who places this responsibility above all other beliefs, but wish the focus remained directed to those things that have a commonly shared acceptance as being totallyinappropriate and harmful..like CHILD porn and paedophilic abuse.

Exposure to "possibly" inappropriate material, such as regular porn will never be stopped, there is too much money involved, and tighter regulation in Australia has only sent the problem off shore...where you can still access it anyway.

Parental supervision, education and filterware are appropriate safeguards for this.

Let the international collaborations and federal police concentrate of the bigger issues.

Take a look a the Aust. institute study. Looks like a media beat up moral panic to me. The study was small, there is as much to be learnt about what was left out in the reporting as what was left in....and huge conclusions were drawn.

I can just imagine the sort of amusing responses i would have thought up as a teenager responding to a study on porn!

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