Tag Archives: Chief Censor

New chief censor appointed – Dr Andrew Jack

By SPCS | Published: December 23, 2010

Public Servant and legal expert Dr Andrew Jack is the new chief censor. He replaces Bill Hastings who resigned in July 2010. Dr Jack, Customs’ legal and advisory services group manager, is currently chief legal adviser for the NZ Police. His three-year term as chief censor starts on 7 March 2011. See Media Release Wednesday, [...]

Posted in Announcement, Censorship | Also tagged appointment, Dr Andrew Jack, Dr Jack, Internal Affairs, Nathan Guy | Leave a comment

Steve Crow, banned company director, promotes porn sleaze on city streets

By SPCS | Published: August 6, 2010

On Wednesday 11th August at 12.30 pm banned company director Steve Crow and Miss Erotica 2010 will be heading a parade of scorpion tanks, motorcycles with bare-breasted pillions and vehicles down Queen Street Auckland – in order to promote Crow’s failing hardcore pornography empire. Eden Digital Ltd directed by John Malcolm Carr, a San Antonio [...]

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Chief Censor’s Office refuses to ban Derty Sesh Video Clip in latest decision

By SPCS | Published: June 21, 2010

The Derty Desh rap music video “Let Me Introduce Myself/Forever” opens with “graphic violence” involving the depiction of “the frenzied murder and dismemberment of a young woman by the hooded figure of the rapper” (accompanied by the rap track “Let Me Introduce Myself” and “offensive language”). The rap track “Forever” follows, accompanied by “images that [...]

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Bill Hastings, Deputy Chief Censor, Derty Sesh, Hon. Nathan Guy, Minister of Internal Affairs, music video, Nicola McCully, rap | Leave a comment

Steve Crow, NZX & Brass Magazine Porn Shoots & Downfall of Golf Boss

By SPCS | Published: May 29, 2010

The Sunday News first broke the sordid news that the circulation of graphic sexually explicit images of Garth Stirrat in Steve Crow’s R18 magazines NZX and Brass Magazine had left his New Zealand Hotel Council bosses “at a loss for words”. Within one week of being appointed to the position of CEO of the NZHC, [...]

Posted in Pornography | Also tagged Bill Hastings, Brass Magazine, Garth Srirrat, John M Carr, New Zealand Horel Council, New Zealand Professional Golf Association, NZHC, NZPGA, NZX, NZX Magazine, Professional Golf Association of New Zealand, resignation, scandal, Steve Crow, Steve Parnell. "Steve Parnell", Sunday News | Leave a comment

$420,000+ p.a. (estimate) to fund salaries of Censors Bill Hastings and Nicola McCully for 2009/10

By SPCS | Published: October 8, 2009

After over 15 years being paid big bucks by the tax-payer to watch hardcore adult porn, the perversions of child sex offenders and rapists, and gratuitous violence, Chief Censor Bill Hastings and his deputy Nicola McCully – want a further 3 years in the “dirty job” watching more objectionable content, 80% of which is hardcore adult porn. What [...]

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Mother backs Bill Hastings paying her 14-year old son to watch rape

By SPCS | Published: December 6, 2008

The mother of a 14-year old who viewed footage of rape and domestic violence for research has defended the study and says …. she gave consent for her son to take part in the research and believed he didn’t see anything that wasn’t age-appropriate”. She said chief censor Bill Hastings was doing a good job. John Mills, president of the Society for the Promotion of Community Standards, said Mr Hastings showed appalling judgment.

Posted in Censorship, Children's Television, Television Violence | Also tagged Bill Hastings, Children's Television, Rape | Leave a comment

Chief Censor Bill Hastings and Hardcore Pornographer Steve Crow

By SPCS | Published: October 22, 2007

In 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 [...]

Posted in Censorship, Films, Pornography | Also tagged Baise-Moi, Bill Hastings, Boobs on Bikes, Critic, Hon. Rick Barker, Irreversible, Nicola McCully, Otago University Students Magazine, Peter Brown, porn film, Rick Barker, Steve Crow, Visitor Q, Vixen Direct | 3 Comments