Aussie govt's planned mandatory net censorship regime to censor video games

[MV75]

Well that toss-pot moron Jack Thompson got disbarred, Con-fool-roy seems to be following in his crackpot footsteps.....

[enforcer888]

Arg lack of sleep, my vitriol was targeted towards Atkinson and not so much Conroy. Got them mixed up.

[Gutsman Heavy]

To show the crapness of the MA rating anyway, the picture at the top of Fallout 3 which was originally refused classification had a revised rating after a change. It ended up being MA, but if my memory serve me correctly, according to the guys at Good Game, all they changed was the name of the drug....

that is true!

Don't they get that an R rating would HELP? Rather than shoehorning GTA into MA and let lots of kiddies get it, it would be R and make it a fair bit tougher for the kiddies to pick up, and I assume parents would be more wary of letting their kids play an R rated game than an MA one...

[GoktimusPrime]

By introducing a ratings system, or even an advisory system (like they have with music), it helps parents to make an informed choice when purchasing games. If they don't want their children to play games with violent and sexual content, and the game comes with a warning about that, then they can choose to not buy it. If they still go ahead and buy it and get upset about it, well then that's their own damn fault.

When I saw South Park The Movie in the cinema there was a man who brought his children in to see it. After the first 10 minutes he quickly dragged his children out. I felt no real pity for that parent... the movie is rated R for a bloody reason and he should've paid attention. The cinema staff also should never have sold the tickets to those kids (which he must've informed them of in order to get children's discount).

I'm aware that our ratings systems has its flaws, like the M rating which is bollocks, but the core concept of it is sound insofar as giving consumers a more informed choice.

He has a screwed up sense of reality and believes there should be no R-ratings for games in order to "protect adults".

That's stupid. The entire point of being an adult is that you have to take responsibility for yourself. If, as an adult, you don't like certain material, then make the conscious choice not to view it! For example, if someone finds pornography to be offensive and finds a pornographic magazine or DVD that has a warning label on it, then that adult can choose to, oh I don't know, NOT view that material!! Adults making responsible choices for themselves -- HOLY SH**!!

*ahem* It sounds to me that this guy just wants to treat adults like children. If so, I wanna borrow his car.

[roller]

hmmmmm popular opinion on this board is against this proposal

so im going to do what i always do

im going to do the opposite



bring on the ban!! woo woo woo

[hotaru_oz]

he wants to protect adults by refusing an R rating for games? What is he high? He's basically treating the adult population of Australia like we're a bunch morons.

[Golden Phoenix]

He's basically treating the adult population of Australia like we're a bunch morons.

I work in cafe and through my experience I'd say this is mostly true

[Gutsman Heavy]

When I saw South Park The Movie in the cinema there was a man who brought his children in to see it. After the first 10 minutes he quickly dragged his children out. I felt no real pity for that parent... the movie is rated R for a bloody reason and he should've paid attention. The cinema staff also should never have sold the tickets to those kids (which he must've informed them of in order to get children's discount).

Nah its MA, I saw it with my mum, THANKS MUMMY!

http://www.oflc.gov.au/www/cob/find....7!OpenDocument

[hotaru_oz]

I remember South Park being rated PG when it first aired on SBS years ago, I remember when the movie came out the ratings were kicked up to M.

[Tetsuwan Convoy]

I work in cafe and through my experience I'd say this is mostly true

Bit of a delay here, keep in mind that a person is smart, but people are stupid...