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Friday, July 4th, 2008Press Release 4 July 2008
The film “End of the Spear” has had its classification downgraded from R16 to R13 following a successful appeal by the Society against the classification decision issued by the Chief Censor’s Office. The Society contended in its written and oral submisssion to the Board that the nature of the depiction of [...]
Praise for Censor’s Ban on “Cradle of Filth” T-shirt
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008SPCS Press Release 1 July 2008
John Mills, President of the Society for Promotion of Community Standards Inc, (SPCS) has hailed as “bold, morally courageous and legally sound”, the classification decision issued to him today by the Chief Censor’s Office, that permanently bans a T-shirt he argued was “grossly objectionable due to its obscene content” and [...]
Lindsay Perigo’s speech that ‘launched’ Dr Death’s book
Saturday, June 14th, 2008Peaceful Pill Book ‘Launched’ in NZ. Perigo labels those responsible for seeking to restrict or ban The Peaceful Pill Handbook as motivated by “religious bigotry” and only fit for the trash-can of human history.
Dr Philip Nitschke’s Peaceful Pill Handbook was launched in Auckland on Sunday 13th February 2007. The next day an application from Dr [...]
Application for Leave re Grand Theft Auto IV (unedited version)
Friday, May 30th, 2008The Society has sought leave under s. 47(2)(e) of the Films, Videos, and Publications Classification Act 1993 (“the Act”), to apply to the Film and Literature Board of Review (“the Board”) for a review of the classification of the highly controversial console game Grand Theft Auto IV (unedited US version) [also known as or GTA [...]
Grand Theft Auto IV: Who is the NZ distributor profiting from this offensive “Crime-Promoting Game”?
Monday, May 19th, 2008Grand Theft Auto IV (also known as GTA 4) – a computer game formatted for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 – was launched on April 29, 2008 and sold nearly 2.9 million copies in the United States in its first five days.1 The game – made by Two’s Rockstar studio - with first-week worldwide sales [...]
Society’s Submission to the Ministry of Culture and Heritage
Friday, May 9th, 2008Submission Re: Consultation Paper: “Broadcasting and New Digital Media: Future of Content Regulation”
Ministry of Culture & Heritage January 2008
Society’s responses to Ministry Questions submitted 11 April 2008
Q 1 What concerns are appropriate to be addressed through content regulation.
These concerns should include all content that could be considered “objectionable” and/or “injurious to the public good” [...]
Chief Censor’s Office Report on Grand Theft Auto IV (GTA 4)
Friday, May 9th, 2008BSA Report on Children’s Television Viewing: Cause for Alarm
Thursday, May 8th, 2008Media Release: 8 May 2008
The Society is not surprised that over half the sample (56%) of more than 600 adult “primary caregivers” of children aged between six and 13, who were interviewed as part of a report into children’s television viewing habits; were unable to identify 8.30 p.m. as the time after which programmes that [...]
Submission to Secretary re film “End of the Spear”
Friday, April 11th, 2008Urgent Attention
Secretary of Internal Affairs
and copy for Mr Owen Davie
Secretary, Film & Lierature Board of Review
Additional Comments Relevant to Society’s Proposed Lower Classification of the DVD End of the Spear and Formal Application for Leave.
5 February 2008
Further to the information submitted earlier by fax by the Society to the Secretary of Internal Affairs re the [...]
Submission to Board Re film “End of the Spear”
Friday, April 11th, 2008Attention: Film & Literature Board of Review (FLBR)
Re: End of the Spear (DVD 113 min 30 sec in length. Classified R16 By Chief Censor’s Office - the Office of Film and Literature Classification [OFLC]).)
The Society contends that the DVD feature End of the Spear, which is virtually identical to the 35 mm cinema version of [...]
Morals body seeks lower [End of the Spear] film rating
Friday, April 11th, 2008KELLY ANDREW - The Dominion Post Saturday, 05 April 2008
http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominionpost/4464953a6479.html
A morals group is calling for a film’s rating to be lowered from R16 so that younger audiences can experience its Christian message.
End of the Spear tells the true story of a group of Christian missionaries speared to death by an Ecuadorian tribe in 1956. The [...]
Three New Appointments to the Film and Literature Board of Review
Tuesday, December 18th, 2007Press Release 14/12/07 Hon. Rick Barker
http://www.beehive.govt.nz/ViewDocument.aspx?DocumentID=31670
Dr Josephine Baddeley, Judy Callingham and Louise Carroll have been appointed to the Film and Literature Board of Review, Internal Affairs Minister, Rick Barker announced today. [They replace three Board members whose terms of office expired on 31 March 2007: Peter Cartwright, Dr Lalita Rajasingham and Stephen Stelhin]
Documentary A Revealing Expose of the Adult Entertainment: on-line streaming video preview
Saturday, December 15th, 2007Check out streaming video preview: http://www.1726entertainment.com/
A revealing documentary about the effects of porn on consumers. “An Accomplished Film” Sundance Film Festival.
“Is porn really addictive? Are children being sexually exploited? Who should teach sex education? How much of responsibility should the porn industry take to provide treatment for potentially addicted customers? Is porn a healthy sexual [...]
Dr. Craig Anderson: Violent Video Games and Aggression
Sunday, December 9th, 2007Dr. Craig Anderson from the University of Iowa is one of the most frequently cited and published researchers in the field of video game violence. Anderson’s work has been used in a variety of venues from scholarly publications to State Supreme Court arguments. Anderson research was used in the Illinois video game legislation defense where [...]
Violent Video Game Effects on Children and Adolescents Theory, Research, and Public Policy (Oxford University Press, 2006)
Sunday, December 9th, 2007by Craig A. Anderson, Douglas A. Gentile and Katherine E. Buckley
Description
Violent video games are successfully marketed to and easily obtained by children and adolescents. Even the U.S. government distributes one such game, America’s Army, through both the internet and its recruiting offices. Is there any scientific evidence to support the claims that violent games contribute [...]
Chief Censor’s Annual Report on Hardcore Porn ‘Control’ Cause for Alarm
Thursday, November 15th, 2007Report 15/11/07
The latest Annual Report of the Office of Film and Literature Classification (OFLC) tabled in Parliament yesterday, raises serious issues about its use of tax-payer funds ($3,458,777 held at 30 June 2007) and its lack of disclosure regarding its classification processes, particularly in relation to its clearance of well over 1,000 degrading and gratuitous [...]
HIV infections in gay ‘bareback’ porn shoots
Sunday, October 28th, 2007Media Release 29/10/07
The Society has highlighted criticisms of the Chief Censor’s Office by Steve Crow, the leading distributor of straight porn in New Zealand, regarding its “double standards” in the classification of hardcore gay porn compared to straight porn [1]. Why, asks Crow, has Chief Censor Bill Hastings, an “openly gay man,” gone so soft [...]
AIDS/HIV crisis linked to “unsafe” gay porn: Censors attacked for “double standards”
Thursday, October 25th, 2007Press Release 26/10/07
A fierce debate is raging in the homosexual community over the impact of “unsafe sex” DVDs and videos on gay men’s sexual practices (sodomy), and the appropriate censorship of this ‘bareback porn’ material [featuring condomless anal sex] that some gay researchers cite as one of the factors helping to fuel the pandemic of [...]
Minister Hon. Rick Barker Fails to Replace Lame-Duck Board Censors
Wednesday, October 24th, 2007Media Release 24/10/07
The Minister of Internal Affairs, the Hon. Rick Barker, has failed to replace three members of the nine-member Film and Literature Board of Review (”the Board”), whose positions expired on 31 March 2007, almost seven months ago. The Society, which has raised numerous concerns with the Minister and his predecessor, the Hon. George [...]
Chief Censor Bill Hastings and Hardcore Pornographer Steve Crow
Monday, October 22nd, 2007In a press release issued last year to explain why his Office had banned the Otago University student magazine Critic, which featured a controversial essay on drug rape, Chief Censor William Kenneth (Bill) Hastings described a male pornographer whose profile was also featured in the magazine, as one “who makes a living by filming the [...]
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