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What authority does the Australian government have to ban an app? And would this authority also apply to apps built by Australians or only foreign apps?
by Leary 6y ago
What authority does the Australian government have to ban an app? And would this authority also apply to apps built by Australians or only foreign apps?
- illuminati1911 6y agoThey have also banned multiple video games in Australia so I don't think banning an app will be a problem legally speaking. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_banned_video_games_in_Australia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_banned_video_games_in_...
- balfirevic 6y agoWow, that's pretty despicable.
- philliphaydon 6y agoWhy?
- rbecker 6y agoA game is a no less legitimate form of expression than a book.
- shakna 6y agoAustralia has banned books too. [0] The most recent example I know of is "The Peaceful Pill Handbook", which was banned around '07 by giving it a "Restricted Classification", which makes distributing or owning a copy illegal in most state and territories. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_Australia#Books https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_Australia#Books
- stevens32 6y agoBanning books is certainly wrong, but to be fair to Australia - banning a book on assisted suicide is maybe not the worst thing
- dleslie 6y agoAustralia is unique amongst its peers in that it has no bill of rights, and instead largely relies upon common law to determine what can and cannot be done; making rights subject to legislative authority. Kind of similar, kind of, Canada has a notwithstanding clause that allows the Government to temporarily override protected rights with legislation.
- jariel 6y agoThis is not really a Constitutional issue about freedom of expression. There are any number of issues under the area of 'foreign trade' and 'foreign actors' the issue could be approached from.
- claudiawerner 6y ago>Australia is unique amongst its peers in that it has no bill of rights, and instead largely relies upon common law to determine what can and cannot be done; making rights subject to legislative authority. Is this really unique among British Commonwealth countries? Besides this, it's a rather interesting situation, in which scholars on free speech and the US 1A use America as an extreme example - even questioning why there should be an explicit constitutional right to freedom of speech. I think the arguments are pretty interesting.
- mustardo 6y agoGames in AU have been censored games before, South park stick of truth is kinda funny https://youtu.be/6-IBNXuhfi0?t=29 https://youtu.be/6-IBNXuhfi0?t=29
- shakna 6y agoThe Australian Customs Act allows them to ban just about anything they like, and force any company operating inside their borders to comply, such as making Google and Apple remove an app from their store.