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We are talking here with Terry Flew,
he's the professor of media and communications
at Queensland University of Technology.
Terry, is the classification system broke?
What would you do to fix it?
Well, in the ALRC review that I headed
we did argue that it was broken, that it was as this one
submitter referred to it:
"analog legislation in a digital world."
If I was to have the power to make a major single change
it would be to base the classification system
more on content than on platforms
and to get some sort of standardisation of categories
across different media. -Give us an example of that.
Okay, an example of that is that we have a highly regulated
and highly classified television system
and a largely laissez-faire internet environment.
But more and more of the television that we access,
we access through internet-based platforms
so we have some real challenges there
about how the same content is dealt with differently
on the basis of the platform from which we access it,
even if presumably the same criteria should apply
irrespective of platform.
Brilliant. Thanks very much Terry.