Closing down ICTV is yet another management driven initiative that is unaware of the strengths and weaknesses of ICTV and either unaware or politically driven in this retrogressive initiative which will destroy a viable yet fragile network of possibility in the aboriginal community; when aboriginal communities are already faced with such an enormous struggle to improve their lives, why destroy an institution that has taken 20 years to to establish itself? This isn't rocket science its common sense.

Certainly am a bit laissez-faire, cybertopian and or libertarian.

You really will be disappointed if you believe this means unlimited access to porn.

Laissez-faire approach to culturally appropriate involves leaving decisions to the beholder to fit into how they view the world, with room for plenty of free ranging discussions.

Attempts to "culturally appropriately" filter what everyone watches on TV occur when not everyone wants watch same code of football ;-)

Personally am happy my family viewed Michaelangelo's David as well as danced naked with all the appropriate body paint... or would you class the latter as an act of porn ?

Certainly done enough comforting victims, bagging, carting and burying of dead, than ever wanted to.

Dan do feel free to do it when needs be done, or do you just leave such things for others to do ?


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polpak

"Leaving decisions to the beholder to fit into how they view the world, with room for plenty of free ranging discussions", makes a lot more sense in modern, adult, educated, employed contexts than in uneducated, unemployed, welfare/drug/alcohol dependent unsupervised juvenile hunter-gatherer contexts. In such contexts it is a formula for disaster.

It is not a matter of 'culturally appropriate', but of simple responsibility versus irresponsibility.

It is great that you are happy for your family to view "Michaelangelo's David as well as danced naked with all the appropriate body paint", but that is worlds removed from what I am talking about.

I have witnessed small Aboriginal children being exposed to x-rated pornography, including violence, by negligent and oblivious drunken adults.

And my own Aboriginal relatives have often been the victims of high rates of violence and sexual abuse by these same drunken/stoned/disturbed Aboriginal juveniles.

Most system employ software restricting what viewed by children.

Am not foolishly thinking it blocks everything, just we do what reasonably can. Then again really do not need to, most of the kids are easily busy enough doing things which are acceptable.

Some have fixations on crudity, go searching for it. Experience shows almost all soon get bored with it, go off to other more appropriate and much more fun activities...

Much of this exploring is part of growing up as a boy, my memory was exploring the art pages in the library, later the arguements over whether what we looked at was crude or nude art ;-)

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I have encountered few if any remote computers with such filters, but plenty of excessive watching of online porn.

When parents have no concept of monitoring their kids' activities, your implied safeguards are useless.

Besides, you don't appear to be conversant with the recent survey of internet usage which showed that 10% of internet time overall was spent on porn, and this was almost 50 times greater than the next most common usage. Internet porn addiction is a real and problematic syndrome in mainstream society. More so in the Indigenous realm.

Agree that when parents have no concept of monitoring their kids' activities, implied safeguards are fairly useless.

Also witnessed small children bieng exposed to x-rated pornography, including violence, by negligent and or other excuses adults.

Enough of my relatives have been victims of violence and sexual abuse by such drunken / stoned / disturbed people.

Also far to familiar with how the "A" word - or other letters, get thrown in to discussions so as to make everything sound so easy to resolve... for other people.

Solutions to these problems are not related to racial identification, except in the minds of racists.

These problems are about individuals accepting their responsibilities along with their rights, about individuals being held responsible and accountable when refusing to accept these responsibilities that come with our rights... and educating people who so fail to ensure it is not ignorance causing the problem