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Good morning. There are moves to restrict young people’s access
to pornographic material
The Sydney Morning Herald 12°/21°
Morning Edition
Monday, May 15, 2023
Michael Fowler
Unfettered access to porn comes under scrutiny
Three clicks. That’s all it takes to move from a popular adult site’s homepage to a video in which men dressed as soldiers rape a screaming “village girl”. The video is free. And none of the world’s most popular porn sites visited by the Herald, which show men treating women with violence and coercion prohibited under Australian law, stipulated the content was for adults or required users to check a box confirming that they were over 18.
Amid deepening concern that adolescents’ easy, free access to a vast array of adult material is normalising gendered violence in adolescent sex – some teens say their first sexual experience involved a hand around their neck – the nation will soon begin debating whether to restrict access to minors.
Those concerned include the NSW’s Children’s Court president and the head of the state’s child abuse squad. The eSafety Commission has submitted a report on how Australia could introduce age verification to the federal government, a move that could also restrict children’s access to violent gaming and gambling. Similar moves overseas have sparked clashes between children’s advocates and civil libertarians.
Some argue age verification is urgently needed to prevent teens re-enacting adult content, while others believe the emphasis should be on educating young people because the horse has bolted on online porn.
It's time to put the horse back in the barn! Let's try to restrict the damage to one generation of teens.
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Former policeman shocked he can so easily find school kids
dealing cocaine in Copenhagen
BEN HAMILTON
MAY 10TH, 2023
Copenhagen Post
A new TV2 documentary broadcasting tonight, ‘En gang narkostrømer’,
lifts the lid on a drug scene few members of the public are aware of
Teen drug dealers are hard at work In the shadows of upmarket Vesterbro (photo: Christian Jensen)
According to experts, it has become much easier to get hold of drugs in Denmark – a contention backed up by the findings of a new documentary series debuting on TV2 tonight that introduces an environment very few people in Denmark are actually aware of.
It’s one in which boys aged just 16 and 17 are selling cocaine on the street.
Some still attend folkeskole (public school).
A lot has changed in recent years
In ‘En gang narkostrømer’, of which the first of two episodes will broadcast tonight at 20:50 on TV2, former drug officer René Dahl Andersen, now a respected author and lecturer, embarks onto the streets of Vesterbro in Copenhagen.
Seeing the youngsters made a big impression on Andersen. Just five years ago, Andersen would never have dreamt of meeting dealers as young as the teens he met.
“I was on these streets for almost 14 years. I have never – like never – encountered a 16-year-old who is in the 9th grade,” he said.
Drug seizures shooting up (I'm so glad I didn't write that)
Last year, the Danish Customs Agency seized significantly larger quantities of illegal substances than in 2021. Cocaine seizures shot by from 7 to 112 kilos, for example.
Despite political austerity and efforts by the police, the number of young adults and kids who use illegal drugs has remained largely unchanged since the year 2000.
Now that makes no sense whatsoever. Are the same users using 16 times as much cocaine as before? I think you guys missed something big.
The preferred drugs have changed, though. Previously heroin was the most widespread hard drug, but cocaine quickly took over in the early 00s.
Pays well to deal
In the documentary in Vesterbro, it only takes 45 minutes of Andersen walking its streets before he runs into two very young boys.
It transpires that they had just handed over 50 grams of cocaine to some pushers at the drug intake room H17 and will need to collect the money later. They are used to doing the same procedure many times a week, they said.
“Why keep up with school when you can earn 10,000 kroner a week,” questions Andersen.
Drug crime is by far the biggest form of crime in Denmark. In Danish prisons, 20 percent of the inmates are those convicted of drug offences.
Drugs are a significant factor in rape and other violent crimes against children. The drug culture needs to be stopped and reversed. Nothing good comes out of it.
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