Australian Customs Pron Search

[lsanderson]

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

Comments

[eatsoylentgreen.livejournal.com]

hahahahaha WHAT?!?

[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.)

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

Better warn the nitpickers!

K.