No matter how disgusting he finds anime, Senator Stirling Griff is wrong to try to censor it

Opinion by Matt S.

It’s such an easy topic to champion in the political sphere that it can only be cynical – for those that haven’t been following Australian politics, one of our more obscure and useless senators, Stirling Griff, has decided to go on a campaign against anime and manga. To paraphrase his argument, he claims to believe that anime is filled with child exploitation material, and therefore a lot of it should be banned immediately. Furthermore, there needs to be a crackdown on allowing this stuff into the country in the future.

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