French Court Orders Censorship of Multiple Porn Sites
A French court has not only ordered the blocking of the sites, but the implementation of non-existent age verification checks.
https://www.freezenet.ca/french-court-orders-censorship-of-multiple-porn-sites/
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@freezenet https://refused-classification.com
A website which documents Australian censorship, such as video game censorship, censorship of films, books, and more.
https://www.refused-classification.com/censorship-timelines/game-iarc/
Censorship on things like Google Play. A "RC" rating basically means a ban.
What this website shows us is that Australian censorship over the past decade has been a *disaster*.
https://undocs.org/en/A/HRC/23/34 The Special Rapporteur in the cultural field questioned censorship of pornographic content here.
You are also underestimating the amount of censorship that the world has had. A good example of this has been countries like the U.K. which censored porn with offensive themes. Once upon a time though, the British admitted that their brand of censorship is practiced by very few countries.
"It’s very obviously illegal material which is why free speech proponents didn’t raise much concern around it."
Ironically, there were concerns a couple of decades ago in the U.K. that blocking sites would lead to further censorship. And then, there was further censorship half a decade later.
@freezenet Unfortunately, they started flooding the classification database for IARC with Fortnite maps earlier this year, so that might make it harder to find cases relating to Google Play and others.