Is This What They Mean by "Indecent"?

To illustrate just how far this censorship may have gone, the EFA is compiling a list of sample sites that will not be accessable, or providable, on the Internet without breaking the proposed leglisation.

The list ranges from Renaissance art to discussion of safe sex. It includes federally funded resources and lyrics to songs played on radio stations across Australia and the world.

You will be comfortable with some of the sites and uncomfortable with others. That is precisely the point. For those sites which you would allow into your home may not be the sites your neighbor would allow into hers. You should be the one choosing what you do and do not want to see, you should be the one controlling your childrens' access to mature discussions -- on the Internet, on television, or in the city library.

Take a look at these sites. NOTE: If you have any other sites to add, Australian sites a bonus, then let us know.

• Venus de Milo

  http://www.paris.org/Musees/Louvre/Treasures/gifs/venusdemilo.gif

• The Sistine Chapel

  http://www.oir.ucf.edu/wm/paint/auth/michelangelo/michelangelo.creation

• Michelangelo's David

  http://fileroom.aaup.uic.edu/FileRoom/images/image201.gif

• Michele Tosini's Madonna and Child with Saint John the Baptist

  http://cac.psu.edu/~mtd120/palmer/otherworks/tosini.madonna.html

• Botticelli's The Birth of Venus

  http://www.southern.com/wm/paint/auth/botticelli/venus/venus.jpg

• The University of California at Berkeley's University Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

  http://www.uampfa.berkeley.edu/exhibits/idl/dlhome.html

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• Pre-Raphaelite paintings

  http://www.cs.su.oz.au/~loki/images/pre-raphaelite/index.html

• The Library of Congress Card Catalog(Searches will reveal "indecent" book titles.)

  http://lcweb.loc.gov/z3950/mums2.html/

• Mark Twain'sThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

  http://www.wonderland.org/Works/Mark-Twain/huckleberry/

• Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter

  http://www.w3.org/hypertext/DataSources/bySubject/Literature/Gutenberg/etext92/scrlt11.txt

• Upton Sinclair's The Jungle

  http://www.w3.org/hypertext/DataSources/bySubject/Literature/Gutenberg/etext94/jungl10.txt

• Sophocles'Oedipus Rex

  http://www.w3.org/hypertext/DataSources/bySubject/Literature/Gutenberg/etext92/oedip10.txt

• The English Server at Carnegie Mellon University (A vast resource of on-line literature.)

  http://english-server.hss.cmu.edu/

• The Holden Server (random quotes from The Catcher in the Rye)

  http://www.stardot.com/~lukeseem/holden/

• The Internet Public Library at the University of Michigan

  http://ipl.sils.umich.edu/ref/RR/GEN/Dict-rr.html

• The King James Bible

  http://www.w3.org/hypertext/DataSources/bySubject/Literature/Gutenberg/etext92/bible11.txt

• Various Academic Endeavorsof George Mason University Professor Harry Erwin

  http://mason.gmu.edu/~herwin/

• Writings of Robert A. Heinlein

  http://www.clark.net/pub/ahasuer/heinlein/heinlein.html

• The University of California, Irvine's bookstore

  gopher://gopher-server.cwis.uci.edu:70/7waissrc%3A/departments/books/BookstoreDatabaseSearch/BROWSE.src?sex

• National Breast Cancer Centre

  http://www.nbcc.org.au/default.htm

• Nursing Mothers' Association of Australia

  http://www.vicnet.net.au/vicnet/nmaa/nmaahome.htm

• 'Reducing the Risks of SIDS' Campaign - Breastfeeding promoted

  http://brain.vifp.monash.edu.au/sidsdata/rtr/breast.html

• Women's Health Study

  http://econ-www.newcastle.edu.au/statistics/womens_health/

• Federal department of health and family services

  http://www.health.gov.au

• National Alliance of Breast Cancer Organizations

  http://www.nabco.org/

• The HIV InfoWeb

  http://www.jri.org/infoweb/

• The Breastfeeding Page

  http://www.islandnet.com/~bedford/brstfeed.html

• Information on penile, prostate and testicular cancer from OncoLink at the University of Pennsylvania

  http://cancer.med.upenn.edu/disease/genito1/

• Kim Martyn's Advice on Sexual Health

  http://www.regsex.com/askkim/index.html

• Information on impotence

  http://www.demon.co.uk:80/hernialInfo/mcd.html

• Information on Water birth

  http://www.well.com/user/karil/

• Information on Safer Sex and STDs

  http://med-www.bu.edu/people/sycamore/std/std.htm

• Johns Hopkins UniveritySTD Research Group

  http://www.jhustd.org/pub/jhustd/

• The National Library of Medicine's view of the human pelvis

  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/extramural_research.dir/images.dir/pelvis.jpg

• Online medical textbooks from the University of Iowa

  http://vh.radiology.uiowa.edu/Providers/Textbooks/rad/books/pelvis/defecation.html

• The journal Human Reproduction from the Oxford University Press

  http://www.oup.co.uk/oup/smj/journals/ed/titles/hru/

• Family Planning and Infertility Information

  http://www.efn.org/~djz/birth/babylist.html#fam

• Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania

  http://www.libertynet.org:80/~ppsepa/

• The Barnard/Columbia Women's Handbook chapter on Gynecological and Reproductive Health

  gopher://gopher.cc.columbia.edu:71/00/publications/women/wh14

• Australian Deaf Gay and Lesbian Association

  http://dixson.slnsw.gov.au/guides/ACE/Directory/org00021.html

• Cyberqueer Australia

  http://sydney.dialix.oz.au/~cyberqueer/

• The Survivors Homepage

  http://www.nebula.net/~maeve/survs.html

• The Crossover Network's Homosexuality Discussion from a conservative Christian viewpoint

  http://www.vnet.net/users/crossnet/dilemma.html

• Ontario Centre for Religious Tolerance

  http://www.kosone.com/people/ocrt/conflict.htm

• The Evangelical Network

  http://metro.turnpike.net/D/Deacon/index.html

• Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation

  http://www.glaad.org/

• Discussion of Prozac

  http://pharminfo.com/drugdb/proz_arc.html#arc_proz_28

• Lyrics of Alanis Morissette, Hole, King Missle, Pearl Jam, Radiohead, Rage Against the Machine, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Smashing Pumpkins, The Violent Femmes, among others.

  http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~avernon/lyrics/

• Quentin Tarantino

  http://www.mca.com/mca_records/amp3/pulpmovs/movies.html

• The Jihad to Destroy Barney Homepage

  http://deeptht.armory.com/~deadslug/Jihad/jihad.html

• The Supreme Court's decisions in FCC v. Pacifica and Cohen v. California (Pacifica includes full text of George Carlin's "Seven Dirty Words" routine, Cohen decision contains possibly "indecent" language)

  http://www.aclu.org/court/court1.html

• The Supreme Court's decision in Roe v. Wade

  http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/classics/410us113.ovr.html

• Any story from the Associated Press, CNN, USA Today, NPR, etc., concerning abortion, AIDS, homosexuality, and many other serious social and medical concerns

• Any college papers discussing many of the same topics they already cover in print versions

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