Necrovision Banned in Australia
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Let me get this straight. Many of the problems they mentioned sound a lot like Fallout 3. Now, FO3 was temporarily banned in Australia due to drugs, which were then renamed and the game was reallowed. Now, did violence somehow become a much more important thing between now and then?
F.E.A.R 2 went through classification, after going through the 'banned' and then the 'ok nevermind' situation too.orannis62 said:
If the Australian classification Board are that erratic with their selection and also their decisions it seems to me like they must have some kind of quota to meet, if only a temporary one at least.
Yay for this country! Oh well, I probably wouldn't have played this game anyway so that doesn't really worry me. We are awfully strict though on this sort of thing... I wonder what possess us to be so? Probably archaic laws.
Being English I'm dubious about Bill of Rights' but at the same time... actually I'm not entirely sure where I'm going with this. Sorry. (It is 2:29am)stompy said:
Thats the spirit!MaxTheReaper said:
Censorship is just a bunch of bullshit, because it is totally subjective, and what one person (or people) think(s) is wrong may be nothing to someone else.
Are you trying to say that, even though you guys have a Bill of Rights, your government is still allowed to place CCTV all throughout London?piers789 said:
Still, it's better than lying down and letting our government take away our right to mediums of expression... hell, another reason why a Bill of Rights would be beneficial is that, if it were to have a clause about freedom of speech, it would mean that our federal government couldn't initiate that firewall they want to.
The CCTV? There's more that I care to think about. In inner cities its out of control; luckily I live in Dorset.stompy said:
About the Bill, I agree, a freedom of speech act would be beneficial. But who would write the Bill? Surely the government would put in what they wanted and leave out what others might want.
Just out of curiosity, what is the firewall about? I must admit my Australian politics are up to much.
This [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_Australia] should contain the information about the proposed Internet filter.piers789 said:
And, about the Bill, you're right in saying that, should the government write the Bill, then they'd have the ability to put in things that only them. But, wouldn't it be more likely that a separate branch of the the Commonwealth would be tasked with writing this Bill, most likely the judiciary?
Man though this game itself doesn't look that great i do real sorry for all the games you aussies have to go without because of you classification board which seems to have hopped up on some seriously good drugs to be this random with game banning
lol, just get it shipped in from here in new zealand. our reveiw board doesnt seem to exsist compared to the aussie one
Not at all, small dev, game that isn't likely to bring in any decent "royalties" seems like a pretty soft target for them to hit.CarlosYenrac said:
Also once they have banned a whole lot of games nobody cares about like this it will be far easier to ban more popular games that people will care about, because they can use this as an example of criteria.
My bet is it's a calculated move to completely remove violence from those evil video games.
....How is it that Jack Thompson hasn't moved to SA?
I hadn't heard of it either... but I'm Australian so I probably wouldn't have even known about it had I not read it here because my government is hell bent on prohibiting me from having any kind of involvement in the decisions that affect my life.
*mutters something unintelligible about internet filters*
*mutters something unintelligible about internet filters*