Australians Overwhelmingly Support R18+ Rating

[ShatteredBlack]

I simply can't get over in his logic in stating that "the vote will be 'unreliable' due to only people who care (that being gamers) voting".

If the only people who care enough to vote are 99% for it, then who are you protecting?

 

[mooseodeath]

the numbers mean nothing, if this went to public vote, it would get crushed and we would have no hope of ever getting an r18 rating.

the people who care responded to this survey. a public vote implies 100% of the adult population of AUS HAS to vote on it. there is 25 million people who don't care, or are naive enough to vote the safe route. lets play the numbers safe and say 100,000 adult gamers feel strongly enough to have an opinion. a minority of those will be against. we would not win.

the only way this would go in our favour is if the vote was a referendum, and the question was worded to imply all ratings were to be merged and all media judged on the same standards, should the r rating be abolished for all media or added to games media.

 

[FinalGamer]

Gamers ARE the public in this case. Not all gamers are social outcasts as we all well know, but they're going to be on a subject they care about that the rest of the nation doesn't because well it doesn't affect them.

Also I fear another Bush ballot.