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From an article in the Herald, 16.8.90.
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FORGET HOMEWORK, COMPUTER KIDS DISCOVER ELECTRO-PORN
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By BEN HILLS writing in the
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Sydney Morning Herald
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It is getting on for midnight and the crack of light under young Danny's
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bedroom door shows he is still up. You walk in, and there he is still
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tapping away on his Amiga computer. Instead of watching television or
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hanging out in the streets, he is hard at work on...
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The screen blacks out, then lights up with a spreadsheet of Australian
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agricultural exports. Danny swings around on his chair, his finger still on
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the dump button, and gives an innocent smile:"Sorry, mum,just got carried
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away with this interesting homework..."
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"All right, just another 10 minutes." You shut the door, and give an
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indulgent smile to your spouse. "It's just the best thing we ever bought
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him."
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Back in the Bedroom, young Danny reboots his system and the image he was
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really interested in coalesces on the screen. It is a naked couple - the real
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thing, not a line drawing or cartoon animation.
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He takes his computer joystick in hand and manouvers the matching parts
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into place, watching as his score clicks up for the number of
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successful penetrations.
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AD 2001? No way. This is just a sample - and one of the more inoffensive
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samples at that - of the sort of electronic pornography that is available to
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now to any half-literate home computer hacker in Sydney.
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Welcome to lovebytes - the censor's ultimate nightmare.
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Sale of X-rated videos might be banned everywhere outside the Northern
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Territory and the Australian Capital Territory. Imported films without a
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Censorship Board classification might be illegal. States might have
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restrictions on the display of explicit material, or its sale to under-18s.
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But for the cost of a local phone call, anyone with a home computer and a
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modem can log into any one of hundreds of electronic bulletin boards -
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preferably one which taps into an overseas network - and obtain a
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memory-bank-full of material, some of which would bring a blush to the
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cheek of the Marquis de Sade.
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Forget about Dungeons and Dragons, Batman and Teenage Mutant Ninja
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Turtles - the hottest games on the Sydney home computer hit parade this
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winter have names like Party Games, McPlaymate, and Animal House.
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Twenty years ago, Marshall McLuhan said television would make the world a
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village. Cheap, user-friendly computers have created the global brothel.
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Without much trouble, I arranged a meeting with a young man who preferred
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to be known by his nom-de-modem of Crudd. I was shown a selection
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which ranged from soft-core shots of Penthouse centrefolds to the latest La
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Cicciolina movie (The Rise and Fallof a Roman Empress) to Animal House,
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which features various unspeakable acts with dogs, donkeys and chickens,
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to "interactive party games" in which the player(s) can compete.
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Most of the material is taken from an overseas network of bulletin boards
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- there is much demand for the output of military installation in the
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American Mid-West where bored computer operators create much of the
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raunchier electro-porn.
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But, thanks to a $750 gadget known as a digitiser, a local cottage
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industry has sprung up in do-it-yourself dirty discs.
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"There's no control over it at all," says Crudd, who admits to having
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embarrassed a girlfriend by using computer technology to graft her head on
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to an explicit Penthouse chassis and transmit it to friends.
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The technology explosion that made this possible has left regulators
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floundering in its wake. Most of the state vice squads contacted had not
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heard of love-bytes - or (when it was explained) did not know whether they
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were breaking any law.
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The first move to ban computer porn has come from a member of the ACT
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Legislative Assembly, a self-styled broadminded former policecman named
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Dennis Stevenson, leader (and sole member) of the Abolish Self Government
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Party.
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Two weeks ago he tried, and failed by one vote, to legislate to ban the
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booming trade in X-rated videos in Canberra, the national capital's biggest
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export industry.
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Mr Stevenson says he was shocked at the material which his staff were
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able to obtain with a cheap Amiga computer from bulletin boards around
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Australia and overseas.
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"I have a couple of printouts on my desk right now, and even though the
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quality is not that good, you can see they are explicit ... not the sort of
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stuff you'd want in the hands of 14 or 15-year-olds."
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He says computer pornography is worse than X-rated videos because:"The
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kids don't need to use the family video. They can do it in the privacy of
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their bedrooms ... anyone who knows how to use a computer and a modem can
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obtain this stuff, and the parents wouldn't have a clue."
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But the matter of enforcement is, understandably, vague. Police raids on
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home computers? Tapping the billions of bytes that flow down the
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phone-lines? Restricting PC sales to those over 18?
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"The first stept is obviously to make it illegal to sell or distribute
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this material, and I intend to do this by reintroducingmy bill to ban
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X-rated videos with a section including computer material. We will just
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have to see where we go from there," he said.
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