Online Gambling and Women United by Australian Censorship

Women's groups are offended by a decision by Australian censors who, in the process of blocking online gambling and child pornography sites,decided all nudity involving small-breasted women is simulated child pornography.

Australia's government has committed to pursuing its plan to censor the Internet, blocking sites including online gambling pages thought by arbitrary officials to be harmful. The censor board, a small group of bureaucratic employees whose decisions are enforced without review or announcement, has decided to include nudity involving women with small breasts in the ban.

According to a report on boingboing.net, the Adult Classification Board has determined that nudity of women with A-cups is a sneaky form of pedophilia and should be excluded as child pornography. Even films from the US, produced under the watchful eye of the FBI, are deemed offensive if the woman is small-chested.

Not only is the concept offensive to women not born with large breasts, but it also opens up the idea that photos of small-breasted women is simulated child pornography. Keira Knightley movies with PG-13 ratings will be denied to Australians for the implied perversion.

Further, censors say scenes showing female ejaculation during orgasm are "abhorrent" and must be blocked.

The developments are exactly what critics of the Internet censorship plan feared. Subjective and arbitrary decisions as to what should be excluded become policy, and the slippery slope begins to steepen.

Online gambling sites are hoping complaints by the Australian public and Internet providers will quickly end the era of censorship in this land once known for bold thinking.