Clive Hamilton David Marr on Censorship

Extract from the Bill Henson Art Censorship Debate in 2008 Clive Hamilton and David Marr discuss points of difference regarding matters of censorship. Clive in his prepared speech noted :"There is no censorship worth noting in Australia" and then raises the issue of the censorship laws in this country, but although he considers that Bill Henson's images weren't pornographic he decries the fact they were mailed out and posted on the Internet. David Marr points out that the censorship system which Clive acknowledges exists rated them PG which means that anyone can view them whatever the medium.

This short extract taken from the 2 hour Art Censorship debate 12th June 2008:-

Art Censorship: The Bigger Picture (Australian Broadcasting Corporation )

http://fora.tv/2008/06/12/Art_Censorship_The_Bigger_Picture

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earlier debate

A seven minute teaser from the Bill Henson Art Debate

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-INRl3uJOlM

There is no censorship worth noting in Australia

http://www.clivehamilton.net.au/cms/media/documents/articles/defending_the_la...

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[tikalal]

The internet is so so very different from other forms of media.

The internet is like life in that it is not media but there is media ON it. You can't censor the internet, it doesn't bloody work.

[92typewriter]

its a shame clive hamilton got ripped in this debate... perhaps he's a poor public speaker, because his books are very good.

[92typewriter]

@tikalal i agree, unlike other forms of media in which the viewer submits to the subject, the internet places the viewer as the subject - avatars interact with the internet autonomously, creating a democratization of thought, unlike the social Darwinism (lowest common denominator) which exists in other forms of media. To censor the internet is to swindle democracy and control thought.

[MRMILO57]

Clive Hamilton ..one creepy man!

Looks like greenie-religious cult leader.