FamilyVoice Australia: Media Release, 6 May 2010
“Yesterday’s confirmation of the R18+ rating for the DVD of Salo – Pasolini’s film revelling in teen torture and sex abuse – hits a new low in Australian classification decisions,” FamilyVoice national policy officer Richard Egan said today.
FamilyVoice Australia was the only community group to make a submission and personally present a case to the Classification Review Board that the ban – first applied in Australia in 1994 – should remain.
“Salo appears to clearly breach the classification guidelines, which say…..
Rapper Derty Sesh ‘exhausted’ from backlash over his video
The fallout over a music video depicting the stalking and killing of women is taking a toll on New Zealand rapper Derty Sesh, his record label says.
The video, for Derty Sesh’s second single, Forever, was pulled from YouTube by Move The Crowd Records this week, at the same time the censor’s office began a classification process for the video.
For more see NZPA Report:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/music/3542326/Derty-Sesh-exhausted-from-backlash
Nathan King’s graphic hip-hop video taken down (NZPA report).
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)
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
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.