Australia Set to Begin Filtering Online Games

[FinalHeart95]

What could possibly be the point of this? Why can't they just make an 18+ rating?

I feel like the Australian government thinks that violent video games are worse than porn.

 

[The Random One]

......Why would ANYONE want to go to china? They censor shit more than australia. Also, America does that kinda shit too, acting like every other country in the world is a disgusting shit hole where you have the same or less rights than a dog does in America.

I have never met a british person IRL.

if the only way a prison keeps you in is by saying "please don't leave, we're the best" and giving you a device where you could find the contrary, it's a prison with bad security!

I want to go to China, it would be nice to learn about their culture and language. Let's face it, China is the future, best to get with the winning team early.

I think it'd be really tough to learn about Chinese culture right now. You would learn a lot about Chairman Mao culture, though.

 

[HPoirot]

I feel for the Australian gaming community. It seems Australian politicians have demonized games even more than American ones. Poor poor Australians...

On a lighter note, I can envision Yahtzee forming a black-market game smuggling enterprise in the event of this proposal becoming law.

 

[RagnorakTres]

This pisses me off so much that I am near speechless. Conroy, you said his name is? I vote we send Ultrajoe after him. With a Sydney Funnelweb spider and a miniature poison-tree thingy. And a Saltwater Croc. And Steve Irwin's ghost, just because Steve Irwin was awesome. Crazy, yes, but awesome nonetheless. Seriously, though, how has the wildlife not targeted this man yet?

EDIT: In fact, throw Yahtzee in with that list. Ultra armor and a trilby? Even Austrailia will tremble.

 

[zahr]

I like living in Canada.

 

[Glass_House]

Cant wait for another 15-20 years where people who grew on video games start getting into parliament.

I cannot agree more. OH NOES THESE KIDS ARE GROWING UP WITH SOMETHING WE DIDN'T!!!! ZOMG IT MUST BE BAD FOR THEM!

So tired of the raggy old asses in parliament trying to censor our internet or our games. It is our world now fellas' get over it.

 

[SargeantGunlock]

The world's most pathetic countries can't handle the information age... Double pathetic...

Pardon? I almost misconstrued that as an insult against Australia.

Direct your hate to Steven Conroy, he's the pathetic one here.

true we shouldn't blame and entire Country yes Aussie Gamers rise up and show there world you aren't Slaves to the Machine

 

[Gestapo Hunter]

HAHAHA!! and you all make fun of china!

 

[llewgriff]

Hey it's a country of villans! I don't know why that matters but I felt like saying it....

 

[Trivun]

Jack Thompson is secretly the Prime Minister of Australia. We've had evidence for a while now, but it's only now that the penny has finally dropped...

 

[Low Key]

HAHAHA!! and you all make fun of china!

I'm surprised you can even get on the Escapist website, seeing as you are in China.

The government might have backed down from "Green Dam" for right now, but they are still talking about it.

http://tech.yahoo.com/news/ap/20090630/ap_on_hi_te/as_tec_china_internet

 

[Jay Kay]

Lived in Australia all my life, and content has been getting censored for as long as I remember. It's atrocious behaviour, and theres nothing we can do about it. The government has chosen to play games and gamers as an enemy figure across the world, we have no enemies that actually exist, so to instill a sense of fear in the population they purposely shit stir us like this. People in power have done this for thousands of years. It's nothing new and it wont go away. It's just fucking sad that it has to be Australia amongst the crowd who has to put up with this bull shit.

EDIT: Governments never worked for the interest of the people, and never, ever will.

 

[scotth266]

HAHAHA!! and you all make fun of china!

I'm surprised you can even get on the Escapist website, seeing as you are in China.

The government might have backed down from "Green Dam" for right now, but they are still talking about it.

http://tech.yahoo.com/news/ap/20090630/ap_on_hi_te/as_tec_china_internet

Ironically, I already made a thread [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.122026] about that. My source was NBC's website though.

 

[Motti]

What could possibly be the point of this? Why can't they just make an 18+ rating?

I feel like the Australian government thinks that violent video games are worse than kiddie porn.

fix'd.
Don't believe me? What was the internet filter originally for?
I actually think it's laughable that they're doing this instead of an invasion of my rights. They wanna censor the internet? Let them try. We'll see how long it takes until the people realise how to get around this.

 

[Tdc2182]

If you have kids under ten playing Silent Hill, then you have a problem. Fifteen-year-olds, not a problem. Legal adults--this shouldn't even be an issue. It seems ridiculous that the government of a supposedly free country is doing its best to censor the content available to everyone, not just minors. I find the ESRB's restrictions frustrating enough--I'm quite glad I don't live in Australia at the moment.

Thats a good statement. These kids who are 7 and 8 shoudnt be playing some of this stuff. The country shouddnt be punished for it though

 

[annoyinglizardvoice]

Once again a knee-jerk politician reminds me why I should start campaigning to have knee-jerk politicians kneecapped.

 

[Azmael Silverlance]

Seriously if they ban WoW there is gona be a revolution in Australia. Jail will be filled up with ppl hacking government sites and shooting politicians involved in this stupid thing!
Honestly im just blown away by the ignorance of the government

 

[brunothepig]

Why do people live in Australia...From the news I can gather that Australia is:Extremely hot, plenty of fires, floods, fires and floods, all the wildlife is trying to kill you, they get everything with delays, video game censorship and probably other crap...

It's not that hot where I live, nothing but snakes try to kill me, no floods. However, from a videogame standpoint, it sucks.

On Topic: Seriously? Someone needs to shoot Michael Atkinson. Or John Howard. Or whoever started this whole internet filter stuff. Or force them to retire. Or all of the above. Why is our government fucking with my freedom? Democracy my ass. ARGH! I'm off to kill people. Virtually, for now.

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I think I will be very amused by there filter, when it fails within the day. Still, it just existing was predicted to slow the speed by 20%.