Big Spoiler

Network Ten has got away with broadcasting sexual assault live on Big Brother because:

"...the internet footage was screened live as a webcast, and not stored, it isn't technically broadcast (under the existing Broadcasting Services Act)," (Communications Minister Helen Coonan) said in Sydney.

Meanwhile, the moronic parents of the morons who thought 'turkey slapping' a female contestant - one holding her down while the other slapped her across the face with his penis - are considering:

taking legal advice to sue the network for defamation

because of the way their children, Michael "Ashley" Cox, 20, and Michael "John" Bric, 21, have been portrayed in the media as sex offenders.

Newsflash, mums and dads - the two Michaels are sex offenders. One held a woman while the other hit her with his genitals. That sexual and it's assault.

On a News.com blog, one brain-dead BB fan called Vicki protested that she was 50 and a mother and she couldn't see anything wrong with what happened.

Ok, Vicki, lend me your daughter. I'm sure I can find a couple of chaps who'd be willing to turkey slap her in the interests of finding out how she feels about it.

The News blogs have been full of similarly retarded types of all ages who can't see the harm in Ten fomenting and airing such behaviour.

To one and all, I suggest you consider the example set by Messrs Bric and Cox and contemplate what might happen at the next party your daughter or sister attends in the company of some 'monkey-see, monkey-do' male mates.

In the absence of 24 hour surveillance, what starts out as a turkey of a joke has the potential to turn nasty real quick.

Meanwhile, also consider this:

Communications Minister Helen Coonan ... said she had ordered the Australian Communications and Media Authority to undertake a key review of the television code with a view to extending it to the Internet.

Like the worst behaved kid in school whose outrageous behaviour brings a ban that spoils it for everyone, Ten and BB producers Southern Cross Endemol may have just brought an end to live web cams.

The next time you type in the URL for your favourite live perv and it's gone, filtered out, page not found, you can blame BB.

That's irony.

-- Nick