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==Criticism== The Society for the Promotion of Community Standards (SPCS) has repeatedly criticised the OFLC for not banning films such as ''Baise-moi'', ''Irréversible'', Takashi Miike's ''Visitor Q'' and ''Lies'' which it classes as highly pornographic and violent. It also alleges that the agency has a policy of banning or restricting films which attack homosexual lifestyles. In fact, the OFLC cannot, by law, ban expressions of opinion. The Society also criticised the OFLC for giving an R16 classification to Mel Gibson's film, ''The Passion of the Christ''. This was lowered to R15 by the Film and Literature Board of Review in an appeal brought by the film's distributor, Hoyts. The Society is opposed to "sexual promiscuity" and often its criticism of the OFLC refers to the fact the Chief Censor, Bill Hastings, is gay. The Society has alleged that Mr Hastings is a participant in a 'gay agenda' aimed at promoting homosexuality and promiscuity through giving liberal classifications to films that it believes should be banned. SPCS has recently targeted films scheduled for exhibition in the Beck's Incredible Film Festival and the New Zealand International Film Festivals. SPCS criticisms fail to note that New Zealand censorship laws have required censors to consider artistic and literary merit since the debate over Stanley Kubrick's first cinematic adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's ''Lolita'' in 1960. Having apparently exhausted its avenues of appeal over censorship decisions, in 2006 the SPCS began to criticise the financial management of the OFLC. It complained to the Auditor General that the OFLC was inefficient and mis-managed taxpayer funds. The Auditor General dismissed the SPCS' complaint, stating that "no evidence of waste was found during the course of the audit" of the OFLC.[http://spcs.org.nz/content/view/132/] In June 2007, Exit International Director Dr Philip Nitschke described the decision by the Classification Office banning ''The Peaceful Pill Handbook'' as "very disappointing" while recognising "that the Censor was under intense political pressure over this decision"[http://www.exitinternational.net/]. The book was banned because it promotes and encourages criminal activity by offering instruction in how to smuggle and manufacture controlled drugs in violation of a number of statutes, not because it advocates reform of the law to permit the seriously ill and elderly access to pentobarbital.[http://www.censorship.govt.nz/news_2007_6%20peaceful%20pill.html]
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