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Australia to block Online games above MA-15+ |
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Australia to block Online games above MA-15+ |
(Can you believe this crap!) Our poor pals in Australia just cant catch a brake when it comes to games that have a little blood or some foul language, so in a land ware no one knows what a bad word is and violence dose not exist the government has decided for you that you will never know.
Gamepolitics reports: Australia's federal government said yesterday that it plans to block access to websites which host and sell games with content edgier than what is allowable under an MA-15+ rating. The unprecedented censorship policy will apply to Australians of all ages.
As reported by the Sydney Morning Herald, a spokesman for Communications Minister Stephen Conroy (left) said that the filtering scheme willl apply to downloadable games, Flash games and websites which sell boxed copies of MA-15+ games via mail order.
Colin Jacobs of Electronic Frontiers Australia, an online users' lobbying group, criticized the plan:
This is confirmation that the scope of the mandatory censorship scheme will keep on creeping. Far from being the ultimate weapon against child abuse, it now will officially censor content deemed too controversial for a 15-year-old. In a free country like ours, do we really need the government to step in and save us from racy web games?
Mark Newton, described by the SMH as an ISP engineer, told the newspaper that the plan could affect online-only games like World of Warcraft and Second Life as well:
That [online games] exemption [on content ratings] is the only reason why multi-player games with user-generated environments are possible in this country; without it, it'd only take one game user anywhere in the world to produce objectionable content in the game environment to make the Australian Government ban the game for everyone.
News-Source: gamepolitics.com
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