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

[SGB]

Why the hell doesn't the government just introduce a rating system that's already in place for film literature?

Blame S.A. AG Michael Atkinson. He's the one holding back an R-rating for video games.

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

He maintains this line despite most other AGs, to my understanding, having no problems with the idea of R-ratings for games. Even one of Atkinson's own sons thinks he's stupid for holding back R-ratings for games.

[Tetsuwan Convoy]

This is pretty un-workable. Its likely to just increase piracy from downloads and those who are in the know will find a way around the ISP blocking anyway.

This Conroy guy sounds like a complete dick from what I have seen about his lame ass net censorship and now this. If I could, I would vote his ass out quick smart.

However, if it did go through, it wold add fuel to the fire of Govt censorship debate as it would be seen as a step in the wrong direction.

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....

[SGB]

This Conroy guy sounds like a complete dick from what I have seen about his lame ass net censorship and now this.

He's an absolute dick. He shouldn't be Communications Minister at all because of his behaviour and his poor understanding of technology. He doesn't even know the difference between a Megabit and a Megabyte, and has even said in public that he is unable to set up a digital TV box!

You should have seen his performances on Q&A and Insight a couple of months back. Very face-palmy stuff.

Rudd made a big mistake keeping Conroy in the Communications portfolio. Conroy should have been booted out of that portfolio in the recent cabinet reshuffle.

[Tetsuwan Convoy]

PLus Australia's rating system is pretty crap too.

[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...