Comments on: Australian firm threatened for link to forbidden website

By: Steynian 336 « Free Canuckistan!

Steynian 336 « Free Canuckistan! — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 23:09:44 +0000

[...] AUSSIE FIRM threatened for link to forbidden website. Australian firm threatened for link to forbidden website. [...]

By: Binks, Webelf

Binks, Webelf — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 20:39:06 +0000

So what’s worse: what we allow to be done to the innocent unborn, or pictures of it on a website? Australia says the latter.

http://www.abortiontv.com/

Here’s the site. Ugly, but millions of dead pre-born infants is far uglier. So is internet censorship, of forbidden topics as chosen by some panel of ‘betters’.

Australia is going the way of soft-fascism, and losing her once proud and independent soul. Don’t blame the protesters, but the petty-tyrants.

Binks
FreeMarkSteyn

By: Scott Gilbreath

Scott Gilbreath — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 09:40:20 +0000

How could I possibly know whether I “approve and support” a website I haven’t even seen? But I do know that, unless it contains direct and credible threats against particular individuals, I have no objection to the site’s existence or links thereto.

The ones being “victimised” here, in my view, are Australians who believe in freedom of speech and press. As you admit, Australia has “censorship laws”. Australia used to be a proud country with a strong tradition of civil liberties, but now it’s become a nanny state with laws that purport to tell people what they can and cannot read or say. How sad.

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 23:56:15 +0000

Well done on your misleading article.

You complain that they don’t tell the full story but neither do you in an attempt to make it look like anti-abortionists are being victimised.

The anti-abortion website, of which you no doubt approve and support has abortion images that are graphic in the extreme.

As a test of the Australian censorship laws it was reported as offensive. The ACMA correctly decided it should be banned.