Australia Does it again!

[Mighty BOB! 5]

It's because Australia is populated by the violent descendants of British criminals and the censorship nazis ministers have to be careful what the people get exposed to or they will all go into a mindless lawless blood rage and the whole country will fall apart. *nods* Yep that's definitely it. Totally.

 

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Edited May 9, 2010 by Mighty BOB!

[Doctor Destiny 41]

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... smooth.

[Gben 20]

It's because Australia is populated by the violent descendants of British criminals and the censorship nazis ministers have to be careful what the people get exposed to or they will all go into a mindless lawless blood rage and the whole country will fall apart. *nods* Yep that's definitely it. Totally.

 

Please don't feed the animals...

[PurpleGaga27 39]

Australia seems to be too slow to make a fast approach to get the R18+ rating official on hand.

[Mighty BOB! 5]

... smooth.

Quiet you!

 

The vodka made me do it.

[Gben 20]

http://au.gamespot.com/news/6262044.html?tag=nl.e544

 

Strong gamer response caused Aussie R18+ setback

 

* By Laura Parker, GameSpot AU

* Posted May 11, 2010 4:47 pm AEST

 

Dominant response from "interest groups" reason for lack of movement on adult rating for games; Federal Home Affairs Minister says government seeking "other legitimate views."

 

A strong response from gamer groups in the Australian federal government's R18+ public consultation has led censorship ministers to claim that more views from the community are needed before a decision into the introduction of an R18+ classification for video games can be reached.

 

Last week, Federal Home Affairs Minister Brendan O'Connor released a preliminary report into the results of the R18+ public consultation, which took place from December 2009 to February 2010. Along with news of initial responses to the consultation, O'Connor also made it known that ministers had agreed that "…further work needs to be done before a decision can be made." According to O'Connor, the ministers had already "…requested further analysis of community and expert views."

 

Minister for Home Affairs Brendan O'Connor.

 

It now appears that the reason for this setback is the overwhelming response from gamers in the public consultation. Of the 59,678 submissions, 86 percent came from retailer EB Games and the pro-R18+ organisation Grow Up Australia. O'Connor's office told GameSpot AU today that ministers had agreed that a broader consultation of the public's views was needed following the dominant response from "interest groups."

 

A spokeswoman from O'Connor's office later stated that "interest groups" referred to the 34 community, church, and other groups that lodged submissions in the public consultation. However, given that submissions were dominated by pro-R18+ interest groups (EB Games and Grow Up Australia), the intended meaning seems clear.

 

O'Connor replied to GameSpot AU's queries with the following statement: "Consultations, by their nature, attract submissions from people who are passionate about the issue. Ministers would like to consider other legitimate views from as wide a cross section of the community as possible."

 

Interactive Games and Entertainment Association (iGEA) president Ron Curry has hit back at O'Connor's latest statement, citing last year's IA9 report, which identified that 68 percent of Australians are now gamers.

 

iGEA president Ron Curry.

 

"I’m not sure how the [Home Affairs] minister pigeonholes them as an 'interest group' because gamers cover all facets of society. If consultations, by their nature, attract submissions from people who are passionate about an issue--and I assume passionate in both opposition and support--then why bother? Surely the government asked for submissions to gauge the feeling of the wider community, of which gamers make up 68 percent," he said.

 

Curry believes that had there not been overwhelming support in the public consultation, there would have been a risk of interpreting the issue as a niche problem that didn’t deserve the full attention of the government.

 

"I don't see any harm done by a community voicing their opinion en masse. It’s incumbent on the [Home Affairs] minister now to continue to show leadership on this issue and spell out a clear and concise process and timeline to garner other 'legitimate' views from across the community. It’s all too easy to dismiss results that may not support a particular view, so we hope that the minister’s statement isn’t simply a way of placating those calling for an R18+ classification but rather a sincere commitment to ensure this issue is resolved in a timely and consultative manner."

 

Stay tuned to GameSpot AU for more on the R18+ debate. For more on video game classification in Australia, check out GameSpot AU's Aussie Games Classification FAQ feature.

[Mighty BOB! 5]

Guess what else Australia is up to.

[Luk3us 63]

I love how government plans to enforce cyber crime never actually involve the creation of some kind of special task for generic police unit or whatever. Or them pumping resources into them.

 

No they always try and make the ISP's suffer, because **** if they put all of them out of business with their insanity there won't be any cyber crime problem anymore.

[Sonic 295]

And just how do they make it so ISP's can check if the customers PC is infected?

[Mighty BOB! 5]

I think it's just supposed to detect if there is a massive amount of botnet traffic originating from a customer such as DDOS attacks or huge amounts of spam mail.

[Doctor Destiny 41]

I think it's just supposed to detect if there is a massive amount of botnet traffic originating from a customer such as DDOS attacks or huge amounts of spam mail.

So long as it's just network monitoring in their own offices, I don't see a problem with this.

[dbjs2009 25]

Not bad ..

[Luk3us 63]

Another year, another banned game.

 

http://www.gameplanet.co.nz/xbox/games/162...um=updates-list

 

So no Mortal Kombat for Aussies.

[PurpleGaga27 39]

Bumping over a six-month old thread?

 

Still I wish Australia has made the R18+ rating official by now. Just plain sad for mature gamers.

[Plok 323]

Bumping over a six-month old thread?

Of all the people on CNCNZ...

 

Why such banning? If someone wants to play MK (can't understand why, though), let him.

Actually, the saddest part of it all is that the people who do this don't have the slightest idea of what gaming is.

[Inferno 22]

Actually, the saddest part of it all is that the people who do this don't have the slightest idea of what gaming is.

Isn't that self explanatory? If they would take an interest in gaming or would game themselves, there wouldn't be a situation like this in the first place.

[Gben 20]

Well having watched trailers showcasing the xray attacks, this is one of those games that I think *should* have been banned.

But I know I'm a minority of one in this forum on that matter.

[pichorra 4]

I see... They will have serious problems with Computer Pirates... "It is banned? none problem, let's torrent it!"

[PurpleGaga27 39]

New update I have found: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/03/16/3165063.htm

 

Come on Australia, make the R18+ rating official already.

[Luk3us 63]

They're get there, eventually... Maybe next decade or something.

[rSquar3d 0]

WtfFAIL. Come on. This is just like the stupid ass Catholic bishop conservatives here in the Philippines saying that distributing condoms instantly turns people into pre-marital sex addicts. Come on. Unless you're a killer, rapist, drug addict or whatever from the get-go, or if your IQ is less than 20, you won't do **** just because of games, movies, porn or any of the other stuff that the ultraconservatives blame for all the **** that happens in life.

 

I mean, there's only two explanations to why **** happens:

1. Idiots

2. **** just happens.

 

PERIOD.

[Inferno 22]

WtfFAIL. Come on. This is just like the stupid ass Catholic bishop conservatives here in the Philippines saying that distributing condoms instantly turns people into pre-marital sex addicts. Come on. Unless you're a killer, rapist, drug addict or whatever from the get-go, or if your IQ is less than 20, you won't do **** just because of games, movies, porn or any of the other stuff that the ultraconservatives blame for all the **** that happens in life.

 

I mean, there's only two explanations to why **** happens:

1. Idiots

2. **** just happens.

 

PERIOD.

Welcome to the world, where people are ****ing stupid.

[rSquar3d 0]

If you think the world is already stupid, then you haven't been to the Philippines yet. We (that is, journalists here) don't call this place "Flipland" and its people "Flipinos" for nothing. >