Atkinson Government Cracks Down on R-Rated Videos

[Ham_authority95]

Yeah, the current Australian government are going down the 'Stalin' route of information control.

Time for some good old fashioned revolution...

I'm with you man

Hang in there Australians, you will get your weapons eventually

I already got them.

Sending them over on mail.

Grenade launchers, M16s, nukes, bombs and lots of money.

You don't need nukes to destroy a government.

Just a shitload of people that hate it.

With nukes!

It is just faster with nukes, OK?

Whatever lol

 

[Doug]

Honestly? Average Joe Australian deserves this - not the ones on the Escapist, but the ones who always vote him in, vote for his censorship of video games, and vote for his pro-nanny state.

I can only hope this gets the average Australian to vote him out of office next election.

 

[ejb626]

This is a new low in censorship even for Australia.

 

[qbanknight]

WTF?! man I feel bad for Aussies. This is like Big Brother sort of crap. They are restricting important pieces of cinema like fight club and apocalypse now because of their posters?! screw you atkinson!

 

[008Zulu_v1legacy]

Its only the state of South Australia, no one really likes it there anyway. It's fast becoming like Iowa or Utah of America (those states are filled and run by religious nutjobs arn't they?)

Still, the law won't make it out of that state because everywhere else knows people arn't idiots.

 

[fix-the-spade]

Dumb question, if the entire Australian entertainment industry simply decides to ignore this new law, what exactly can Atkinson and co do about it?

This strikes me as the kind of thing that only works if the people agree to it, if the distributors all turn round and say 'you sneaked this in, it's unconstitutional, fuck you,' what exactly can be done to stop them. In a court case between the Aussy government (or most western govs for that matter) and the combined legal depertments of Fox, Universal and co I wouldn't be betting on the government.

Slightly similar to the UK's 'ban' on Fox hunting, go out on the weekends and you'd never know it carried fines and jail time.

 

[Delock]

I know the perfect form of protest for any Austrailian citizen because of this incident: go to your nearest Blockbuster and replace all copies of Finding Nemo with Saw II (cookie to those who get the reference).
As for this law, it's more soft censorship crap that I'm really getting tired of seeing. First of all, you can do so much more with an R-rated movie. Second of all, that rating is there for a reason.
Seriously, this is getting way too out of hand. It needs to be stopped before books are the ones getting this treatment.

 

[Vierran]

I noticed when i went into my dvd store yesterday that all of the R18 material was now in its own section, if you ask me it has made it easier for people to find and having it all together means i don't have to search through the shelves for that one title that happens to be R18.

So all in all this is a pretty useless law.

 

[TMAN10112]

Increasingly heavy media censorship? - Check.
Increasingly high regulation of civilian-owned firearms? - Check.
Increasingly insane head of state who acknowledgesno limit to his power? - Check.

It looks to me that Australia is heading down a slippery slope towards totalitarianism...

 

[KeyMaster45]

This somewhat sums about what happens to me every time the Australian government does something stupid and anti-democratic

It can also be interpreted as what happened when this legislation was brought to light.


Imagine the ominous castle is the Australian senate or wherever those idiots make these insane laws.

 

[JWW]

Viva la Revolution, mate!

But seriously, this is a slippery slope. What's next, we can't have silverware because we might accidently cut ourselves?

 

[mr.aravaro]

I'm so glad I don't live in Australia

 

[ZippyDSMlee]

It would be easier to hide kids from the world till their 18......

 

[RabidusUnus]

Britain already has knifes with ro\

Viva la Revolution, mate!

But seriously, this is a slippery slope. What's next, we can't have silverware because we might accidently cut ourselves?

Britain already has knifes with the points rounded off, so you can only cut, and not stab.

 

[MortalForNow]

At this rate, the amount of people that he's alienating means that no one will go to Atkinson's next birthday party.

On a serious note, Australians should take some kind of action against what he's doing. I don't think that anyone would have a problem with either a legislative bill, or perhaps shipping Atkinson to the Bermuda Triangle.

However Australia solves the problem, hopefully it will be the last that they have to deal with something like this. In the modern day, this pretty much undermines how Australia's culture develops. The country definitely deserves better than the treatment it's getting now.

 

[Callate]

Criminy, Ozzy government. Don't you people have anything better to do?

Let me spell this out for you: most of you are the descendants of murderers, rapists, thieves, and other ne'er do wells. (Those of you who aren't later foreign immigrants, British military stock, religious missionaries, or aborigines, anyway.) If there's violence in your culture, movies aren't the first place I'd look for solutions.

 

[Dogstile]

*walks in*

4th thread about this in the past week.

*walks out*

Oh no! Its the 4th thread, What ever shall we do!?!

Seriously, not everyone looks on the forums as much as you do, we may not have seen it.

 

[Veritas0323]

Australia sucks.
[HEADING=3]Literally[/HEADING]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05zTnDTpbHI[/youtube]

i actually saw this on a plane coming home from Spain

it was unwatchable