ABSTRACT
This chapter presents some of the spatial practices in which the scheme engages, in terms of both cyberspace regulation and the spaces of censorship. The Australian approach to Internet censorship draws heavily on existing mechanisms of media control, effectively hybridizing the regulation of publishers with the control of broadcasters. The Internet censorship scheme has even attracted strong criticism from within the Liberal party. The chapter deals with a description of the operation of the new revision of the Broadcasting Services Act 1992 which came into effect on 1 January 2000 as amended by the Broadcasting Services Amendment Act 1999. The Broadcasting Services Amendment Act 1999 contains express reference to objectives which are closely tied to existing notions of media regulation classification of material, prohibition of certain material and the regulation of media broadcasters' as the beneficiaries of a pseudo-public status as gatekeepers of public information and opinion.
