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SOCIETY FOR PROMOTION OF COMMUNITY STANDARDS INC.

Nathan King’s graphic hip-hop video taken down (NZPA report).

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A music video depicting the stalking and killing of a woman has been removed from YouTube by its record label, at the same time the censor’s office has begun a classification process at the request of the Department of Internal Affairs.

The video for rapper Derty Sesh’s second single, Forever, has been pulled from YouTube by Move The Crowd Records.

Interested parties, including Move the Crowd Records, Rape Prevention Education, the Society for the Promotion of Community Standards and the Department of Internal Affairs, were yesterday invited to make comments on the video.

They would be given two to three weeks to make comments before they were considered by the Censor’s Office and classified.

For more see: http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/music/3533304/Graphic-hip-hop-video-taken-down

Time to Reform NZ Censorship Law? – Article (The Press)

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The first steps are being taken towards a possible overhaul of New Zealand’s ageing censorship legislation.

Ministry of Justice and Internal Affairs officials have been meeting key stakeholders and industry and government body officials during the past fortnight to gather submissions for a “tightly targeted review” of the current laws.

However, that scope may widen, given that the present act has been described as “unwieldy and expensive” and badly out of step with technology…

For more see article by James Croot. The Press 30 March 2010. Link below.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/digital-living/3525995/Time-to-reform-NZs-censorship-laws

Censorship Compliance refers Nathan King’s video to Chief Censor

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The Society is pleased to learn that following its complaint earlier today, Censorship Compliance has now submitted the Nathan King video clip, which compliance officers have now watched, to the Chief  Censor’s Office for classification. If is is classified “objectionable” under the Films, Videos and Publications Act 1993, the distributor of this publication can be prosecuted and fined under the Act.

Society refers Nathan King’s Video to Censorship Compliance

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The Society is joining with a number of anti-violence groups that are calling for a New Zealand taxpayer-funded music video, featuring the son of comedian Mike King, to be banned. The slasher-style clip has been described as “violent, misogynist pornography”. The Society has made a formal complaint to the Censorship Compliance Office of the Department of Internal Affairs and the Office of Film and Literature Classification over the video clip and has requested an investigation to see whether or not this objectionable publication falls within their respective jurisdictions.

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Announcing Society’s 2009 Members’ AGM

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The Society’s 2009 (Members Only) AGM will be held on Monday night from 6.45 pm to 7.20 pm 8th June 2009 at Connolly Hall, Guilford Tce, Thorndon. The Public Address commencing at 7.30 pm, following the AGM, will be given by John Terris, former Mayor of Lower Hutt, former Labour Party MP for Western Hutt, Former Acting Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives and President of Media Matters. All members of the public are warmly invited to attend this lecture, the discussion that follows and the supper. The Lecture Topic is: “New Zealand’d Media Landscape – It’s like the Wild and Woolly West. (Our value-averse little country is fast becoming the Sleaze Capital of the Universe).” [Read more…]