Media Act changes redrafted

Gigaba said a classified advertisement last year for the sexual services of a 12-year-old was still the only example of child pornography linked to mainstream media, but he dismissed the explanation that it was a typographical error and was placed by a 21-year-old.
Click to expand...

And that's their only justification??? Idiots.
 
They don't need sane justification. This government is hell-bent on eroding the freedom of its subjects. Beware when you hear that your freedoms are being curtailed for the sake of children.
 
eish - more dopes on slippery slopes

imho they don't have any price on getting this thru as it stands
 
This is one piece of legislation that I was seriously against, it is good to know that it is now being revisited so as to ensure Press Freedom, the public outcry worked

Minister in the Presidency Essop Pahad intervened late last year to delay passage of the Bill. He agreed with the SA National Editors’ Forum that technical committees be set up to look for ways to achieve the government’s aims without undermining the Constitutional guarantee of press freedom.

Local and international press freedom monitors protested to President Thabo Mbeki that the proposal would significantly undermine the rights of newspapers, radio and television.
Click to expand...
 
As was expected.

Media organisations accuse Parliament of trying to ram through changes to the Film and Publication Act that will introduce pre-censorship in the media, something not even the National Party attempted in the hey-day of apartheid.
Click to expand...

The SA National Editors' Forum (Sanef), the SA Chapter of the Media Institute of Southern Africa (Misa) and the Freedom of Expression Institute (FXI) say they “are shocked by the reported announcement by Patrick Chauke, chairman of the Parliamentary Home Affairs Committee, that he plans Parliamentary hearings for the Films and Publications Amendment Bill soon so the Bill can come before Parliament within the next three months”.

The organisations “believe this undertaking …is contrary to the promise made by minister in the presidency Essop Pahad, home affairs minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nquakula and deputy minister Malusi Gigaba that there would be extensive consultation with stakeholders before the Bill was presented to Parliament. It also conflicts with the decision to set up technical committees to investigate ways in which the ministry's aims could be met without undermining constitutional guarantees of media freedom.”
Click to expand...

Kinda sounds like Ivy and her back door tricks to get things passed.

Prepare for censorship folks, viva!
http://www.itweb.co.za/sections/computing/2007/0703151040.asp
 
They 'consult' only with the stakeholders who can be counted on to agree. Same thing that happened with the Firearms Control Act. The only people consulted were anti-gun groups, and all input from gun rights groups contrary to The Party's agenda was summarily ignored.

This is part of what gets me about the media etcetera. We point out to them that the same thing the government did to us will happen to them, and that it's a rights issue. They blithely ignore us, safe in their illusions, and then have a heart attack when the exact thing we predicted happens. Then they expect support.

Our present government is obsessed with increasing its own power and furthering its own ideals, heedless of the cost to democracy and the people, heedless of the voices of reason. Disturbing.
 
Disarmament : check
Media control : check
Refusal of accountability : check
Control of essential services* : check

Yep. Now it's a matter of waiting for the government to decide it's justified in using force to deter anyone who disagrees with them. The only thing we're missing here is a strong military and law enforcement by military power.


* telecoms, power, water
 
Leitmotif said:
Yep. Now it's a matter of waiting for the government to decide it's justified in using force to deter anyone who disagrees with them. The only thing we're missing here is a strong military and law enforcement by military power.
Click to expand...

I'm sure that'll come once there is actually some significant opposition.
 
Yeah, military coups do seem to be a bit of a curse in Africa... best to leave the military toothless until they need them.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top
Sign up to the MyBroadband newsletter
X