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Travellers to be searched for porn
ASHER MOSES
May 20, 2010 - 4:38PM
Australian customs officers have been given new powers to search incoming travellers' laptops and mobile phones for pornography, a spokeswoman for the Australian sex industry says. More

Date: 2010-05-20 02:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eatsoylentgreen.livejournal.com
hahahahaha WHAT?!?

Date: 2010-05-20 03:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] don-fitch.livejournal.com
Yeah. As someone pointed out when this came up in a Canadian context, maybe it's just a matter of Protection of the Domestic Industry. (The U.S., if I understand correctly, provides for searching computers &cet. for anything, for no particular reason -- which is pretty much in line with our current trend towards Authoritarianism... an Evil from which other countries apparently are not entirely free.)

Date: 2010-05-21 02:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] minnehaha.livejournal.com
Better warn the nitpickers!

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