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Film Board To Revisit “Baise-Moi” Classification
Tuesday, 3 September 2002, 9:05 am | Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.
The matter of the classification of a film described as setting a “new benchmark in terms of sadistic sexual violence” comes again before the nine-member Film and Literature Board of Review. More >>
Sex Takes its toll on Censors
Monday, 2 September 2002, 1:44 pm | Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.
Chief Censor Bill Hastings says that he has psychologists on call to counsel him and his staff, “particularly when we get a run of child pornography from the internet” to view and assess for classification. More >>
“Baise-Moi” should be Banned says Bill Hastings
Wednesday, 28 August 2002, 9:15 am | Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.
Chief Censor Bill Hastings has confirmed that the French sex-violence film “Baise-Moi” (transl. “F*** Me” or “Rape Me”) is a shocking film that is injurious to public good and should be banned. More >>
High Court action against George Hawkins
Monday, 19 August 2002, 8:49 am | Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.
The Society is concerned that the position of DCC has been vacant since October 1999 and the Office of Film and Literature Classification (OFLC) has consequently been operating since December 1998, with only a one-person executive rather than two as ... More >>
Censoring Internet Porn and Xtra Anti-virus Filter
Thursday, 15 August 2002, 4:05 pm | Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.
The sickening addictions of internet users to child pornography and other “objectionable” sexual material, is the subject of a TV 3 60 minute documentary at 7.30 p.m. tonight. More >>
Linking Pornography and Sex Attacks
Friday, 9 August 2002, 3:11 pm | Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.
Police were reported yesterday to be hunting for a man they said is “a dangerous sexual predator fixated on Asian women” (Dominion-Post 8/8/02 p. A8). He was named as Richard Clarence Hunia and “is wanted for an alleged sexual attack on a Chinese ... More >>
Film Festivals, Perverts, “Baise-Moi” & Censorship
Wednesday, 7 August 2002, 9:28 am | Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.
In an article entitled “Perverts and censors have a great deal in common”, Barbara Sumner-Burstyn expresses her disgust at the banning of the French sex-violence film “Baise-Moi”... More >>
Appeal On “Baise-Moi” Succeeds Against Film Board
Wednesday, 24 July 2002, 2:37 pm | Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.
The Society for the Promotion of Community Standards Inc. P.O. BOX 13-683 JOHNSONVILLE More >>
Film Festival Not Victim of Malice as Claimed
Friday, 12 July 2002, 8:08 am | Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.
Mr Bill Gosden, Director of the NZ International Film Festival, has accused SPCS of “maliciousness” in the timing of its applications to have the classification decisions on two opening night films reviewed by the Film and Literature Board of Review. In ... More >>
Playing The Race Card And Conduct Most Heinous
Wednesday, 26 June 2002, 9:25 am | Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.
Smashing a terracotta tile on the head of a jogger he had brutally raped and sexually tortured, was the way Flaxmere man, Dartelle Alder, 23, killed his victim Margaret Lynne Baxter, 38, of Wellington. The Court of Appeal said the purpose of the killing ... More >>
Sexually Violent ‘Entertainment’
Monday, 24 June 2002, 12:35 am | Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.
The availability of films, videos and DVDs featuring ‘sexual violence’ combined with ‘graphic violence’, to those 18 years of age and older, has dramatically increased since Mr Bill Hastings was appointed to the roles of Acting Chief Censor in December ... More >>
“Baise-Moi”, Porn And French Children
Wednesday, 19 June 2002, 2:07 pm | Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.
“Concern that French children’s attitude to sex is being warped by early exposure to hard-core pornography” is the subject of a recent news report in the Guardian newspaper. The report entitled “Porn sways French children”, goes on to state that ... More >>
GG's Views On Smacking Kids Attack Family
Tuesday, 18 June 2002, 9:53 am | Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.
The view that “smacking kids is assault”, expressed by the Governor-General Dame Silvia Cartwright in the weekend, is “quite erroneous” according to Rev. Gordon Dempsey, President of the Society for the Promotion of Community Standards. More >>
SPCS - Chief Censor On “Baise-Moi”
Wednesday, 12 June 2002, 10:53 am | Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.
In an article entitled “Censorship is no easy matter” by Graham Reid, published in The NZ Herald (Dec 1, 2001), the Chief Censor, Mr Bill Hastings, is quoted as saying: More >>
Chief Censor Considered Baise Moi Should Be Banned
Wednesday, 12 June 2002, 8:45 am | Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.
Chief Censor, Bill Hastings, reported in a radio interview that the first time he saw “Baise-Moi” he thought: More >>
Fascism, Baise Moi And Freedom Of Expression
Wednesday, 29 May 2002, 9:56 am | Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.
Libertarianz spokesman, Scott Wilson, is adamant that the temporary restriction orders imposed on the films Baise-Moi, Visitor Q, and Bully, is the work of “book burning jackbooted busybodies”. It is unfortunate that one associated with a political movement ... More >>
Kiddie porn, broomsticks, ruptured souls & spirits
Wednesday, 29 May 2002, 9:34 am | Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.
Libertarianz Party spokesman, Scott Wilson, has accused SPCS of being “obsessed with sex” and of falsely labelling the ‘banned’ film Bully as “kiddie porn” in its scoop news release of 11 May. SPCS President Rev. Gordon Dempsey responds by calling these ... More >>
‘Baise Moi’ NZ Ban interests Aussie P.M.
Thursday, 23 May 2002, 9:18 am | Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.
Thursday 23 May 2002 Released 3.30 a.m. The Society for the Promotion of Community Standards (SPCS) wrote to the Australian Prime Minister, John Howard, on 17 April 2002 informing him of Justice Hammond’s decision in the Wellington High Court, dated ... More >>
Banning “Bully” a paedophile’s daydream
Monday, 20 May 2002, 5:10 pm | Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.
The Society for the Promotion of Community Standards Inc. applied to the Film and Literature Board of Review on May 7, 2002, for an interim restriction order to be imposed on the R18 film “Bully” which was screening as part of the Beck’s Incredible ... More >>
Baise Moi ‘Fascists’ And Free Speech
Monday, 20 May 2002, 9:15 am | Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc.
In an article entitled “Film festival censorship simply fascist”, Scott Wilson, Spokesman on Free Speech for the Libertarianz Party, bemoans “the banning” of the films Visitor Q, Baise Moi, and Bully, calling it “a jackbooted attempt by book-burning busybodies ... More >>
