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Community, space and online censorship : regulating pornotopia / Scott Beattie.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Beattie, Scott.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Australia. Broadcasting Services Amendment (Online Services) Act 1999.
Australia.
Obscenity (Law)--Australia.
Obscenity (Law).
Pornography--Law and legislation--Australia.
Pornography.
Internet--Law and legislation--Australia.
Internet.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (285 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2009.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
This book compares the Australian solution to internet regulation, a set of laws which have been criticised as being both draconian and ineffectual, to major regulatory systems in the UK and US, and will be a valuable guide for anyone interested in internet theory generally.
Contents:
Introduction : classification refused
"Protect me from what I want" : censorship and internet classification
Co-regulation and symbolic policy : The Broadcasting Services Amendment (Online Services) Act 1999
"Taking the red pill" : cyberspace, jurispace and the architecture of regulation
Sexx laws : the spatial strategies of censorship
Censorship, power and regulatory communities.
Notes:
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-274) and index.
ISBN:
1-315-57300-8
1-317-16333-8
1-317-16332-X
1-282-24301-2
9786612243011
0-7546-8939-5
9781315573007
OCLC:
461064931

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