Censorship: Australia needs more of it.

[mellie]

The nets like our actual world, there's good and bad. The dark web is just another dimension of bad, only like real world, innocent people, children and the vulnerable get hurt because of it.

Cyber police could be more effective if they weren't bound by legislation.

Fact- in Australia, a person may have images of naked children, some as young as those in nappies and or have images of four year old naked girls with "fuck me" signs above their heads on their computers or hardrives and still escape conviction.

We are among the liberal nations on earth when it comes to putting up with filth like this.

Apparently, so long as these naked children aren't being depicted in a sexual pose, its ok.

Go figure.

[mellie]

Still, plenty of them slip under the radar, and even if it were just one, (which it's not,) it's one too many. Dark web needs destroying.

NEVER leave your child alone with anybody!

Even when court ordered to do so?

[mellie]

Hinch is trying to change this legislation, but he needs support, and for our nation to start caring about what matters most.

Our kids.

[Black Orchid]

Whilst there is a web there will always be a dark web. It will always be exploited, like most things.

[mellie]

Whilst there is a web there will always be a dark web. It will always be exploited, like most things.

Doesn't mean we condone it or should turn a blind eye though.

Every little bit helps.

[Black Orchid]

Whilst there is a web there will always be a dark web. It will always be exploited, like most things.

Doesn't mean we condone it or should turn a blind eye though.

Every little bit helps.

I am not condoning it I am merely saying it cannot be destroyed. Big difference!

[mellie]

I wasn't implying you were, just think we all need to do our bit.

Bit like terrorism, if we see something that doesn't feel/smell right. Report it.

[mellie]

And sure, people who report this gunk aren't likely to receive accolades, a round of applause, or roses thrown at their feet, because chances are, noone will EVER know, but the individual themselves.

It's called a social conscience.

Some people have them, some don't.

[Nicole]

@ Orchid & Gordon

Both my kids have played Grand Theft Auto, World of Warcraft, Battlefield and the like and neither have violent tendencies. I think the tendency for violence is inherently there and usually from the home experience of a dysfunctional violent parent or family member.

If the tendency, or learned behaviour, for violence isn't there to begin with a movie and/or game won't create it.

Gordon:

Well balanced people who play violent games or watch violent movies, I can't see an issue.

I'm not sure either of you are right.

Here's a summary of this study:

Huesmann, L. R., Moise-Titus, J., Podolski, C., & Eron, L. D. (2003). Longitudinal relations between children’s exposure to TV violence and their aggressive and violent behavior in young adulthood: 1977-1992. Developmental Psychology, 39, 201-221.

What is this study about?
There is increasing evidence that early exposure to media violence is a contributing factor to the development of aggression. However, much of the past research on media violence has focused on short-term effects and reported significant relations only for boys. This study draws on social-cognitive observational-learning theory, desensitization theory, and social comparison theory to examine the longitudinal relationship between early exposure to TV violence and adult aggressive behavior for both males and females.

This study is a follow-up of the 3-year longitudinal study conducted by Huesmann and his colleagues in 1977. In the original study, which included 557 children from five countries (aged 6-10 years), researchers gathered information on childhood TV-violence viewing, identification with aggressive TV characters, judgments of realism of TV violence, aggressive behavior, and intellectual ability, as well as parents’ socioeconomic status (measured by educational level), aggressiveness, parenting practices and attitudes, and parent’s TV usage (i.e., TV-viewing frequency and TV-violence viewing).

In this follow-up study, researchers interviewed and gathered collateral data (i.e., archival records and interviews of spouses and friends) on 329 participants from the original sample. At the time of the follow-up, the participants ranged in age from 20 to 25 years. Researchers administered measures of adult TV-violence viewing and adult aggressive behavior, and obtained archival data on criminal conviction and moving violation records from state records.

What did the study find?
The results of this study revealed that early childhood exposure to TV violence predicted aggressive behavior for both males and females in adulthood. Additionally, identification with same sex aggressive TV characters, as well as participants’ ratings of perceived realism of TV violence, also predicted adult aggression in both males and females. Furthermore, while a positive relationship was found between early aggression and subsequent TV violence viewing, the effect was not significant. These findings suggest that, while aggressive children may choose to watch more violent TV programming, it is more plausible that early childhood exposure to TV violence stimulates increases in aggression later in adulthood.

Gender differences were also observed in the expression of aggression. Specifically, men were more likely to engage in serious physical aggression and criminality, whereas women were more likely to engage in forms of indirect aggression. Men and women reported similar frequencies of engaging in verbal aggression, general aggression, and aggression toward spouses. For men, the effects were exacerbated by their identification with same sex characters and perceptions of realism in TV violence.

The longitudinal relationships observed in this study held true, even after controlling for the effects of early aggressive behavior in childhood, socioeconomic status, intellectual ability, and various parenting factors. These findings support the hypothesis that the causal effects of media violence exposure found in laboratory settings can be generalized to real life from childhood to adulthood.

[Nicole]

Gordon and Orchid, what I am arguing is that anecdotal evidence holds little value against a longitudinal study like the one above using hundreds of people.