KATE THOMPSON DAVY: New film act hides its impracticality behind emotional appeals
Amendments give the Film & Publications Board more power to regulate local content
08 March 2022 - 18:48
From the beginning of March we’re all subject to a new Films & Publications Amendment Act, which makes some pretty sweeping changes to the ambit of the Film & Publications Board (overseen by the department of communications & digital technologies) and how it plans to regulate local online content.
The amendment act being “operationalised” has been a long time coming — a hint of this fact is in the act’s full name, written as it was in 2019 — but there was an even longer draft and public comment phase before that, during which the proposed new law earned itself the moniker “the internet censorship act”...
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