Australia strikes again; you can potentially get sued for calling someone a noob - Polidicks

[quote]The Australian Government, led by Julia Gillard, is proposing changes to anti-discrimination laws that could spell the end of online video gaming in Australia. Website Herald Sun is reporting that amendments to anti-discrimination legislation could make it illegal to — and I hope you’re sitting down for this one — call someone a name. If the changes made it into law, you could be taken to court and fined over calling someone a “Noob” in a game like Call of Duty. It would also mean you would have to watch your mouth in public, even amongst friends. Calling someone “mate” — a staple in Australian vocabularies — could unwittingly offend someone, placing you in hot water with police. The laws would also extend the racial vilification laws to cover things like age and sex, meaning calling someone “old” or a “misogynist” might be a ticket to the court room. The new laws are being spearheaded by Attorney-General Nicola Roxon and the implications go far beyond our favorite pastime. If you found a shop assistant rude, you would be able to take him to court (and vise versa). If someone mentioned in passing that the party you voted for in the last election was a dumb decision, you would have grounds to sue. It would be illegal in Australia to offend anyone, for any reason, willingly or not. What a bleak, horrible future we live in.[/quote] [url=http://aussie-gamer.com/news/new-australian-law-could-ban-online-video-games-facebook-twitter/#/vanilla/discussion/embed/?vanilla_discussion_id=0]Source[/url]

So basically, he's trying to be able to arrest anyone who calls him a moron over his idiotic laws.

Why do I have a feeling this isn't going to happen?

Sounds like something people would easily exploit just to be dicks.

This means all the Aussie users including me would have to stop using the dumb rating. (or Facepunch in general) Also, why the fuck did people rate this winners?

This is a good idea. To prove that whoever is sueing you is indeed a noob and maybe counter-sue them, make up a rule where you have to duel in court in whatever game it all happened.

[quote]The Australian Government, led by Julia Gillard, is proposing changes to anti-discrimination laws that could spell the end of online video gaming in Australia.[/quote] [quote]The new laws are being spearheaded by Attorney-General Nicola Roxon[/quote] Misleading headline. The Attorney-Generals are retarded but nothing they propose ever get passed. Move along.

Gillard can go to Hell, so can Abbott, that backwards stupid cunt

[quote] Calling someone “mate” — a staple in Australian vocabularies — could unwittingly offend someone, placing you in hot water with police.[/quote] As if the police would care.

When hell freezes over and this gets passed, what are the chances that the person you're insulting while playing a game online lives in australia and is aware of this law

What a bunch of scrubs. You know what this is? This is admin abuse.

Finally! Somebody can be properly punished for calling me bisexual instead of my proper sexuality I'm a proud heteroromantic demisexual and I demand respect!

this can't be serious australia just wouldn't be australia without everyone calling each other cunts

won't happen

[QUOTE=1239the;38813748]Misleading headline. The Attorney-Generals are retarded but nothing they propose ever get passed. Move along.[/QUOTE] Uh no... they introduce all large law reform. Just because they introduce it does not mean it will pass or won't get passed. [editline]13th December 2012[/editline] I assume that the Herald Sun have completely misintepreted what the changes were going to be, on purpose, because I doubt they'd do what they're suggesting it's going to do.

[QUOTE=zombojoe;38813788]What a bunch of scrubs. You know what this is? This is admin abuse.[/QUOTE] brb ragequitting australia

"If you found a shop assistant rude, you would be able to take him to court (and vise versa)" Fuck, sounds like I'll be living in the US That sounds horrible!

[QUOTE=WhatAmI;38814022]"If you found a shop assistant rude, you would be able to take him to court (and vise versa)" Fuck, sounds like I'll be living in the US That sounds horrible![/QUOTE] [quote][B](and vise versa)[/B][/quote] Are you kidding it'll be a dream come true!

[QUOTE=1239the;38813748]Misleading headline. The Attorney-Generals are retarded but nothing they propose ever get passed. Move along.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=title]Australia strikes again; you can [B]potentially[/B] get sued for calling someone a noob[/QUOTE] Let's look up the highlighted word.

I'm planning to go there on holiday, I'm going to be broke if this passes :v:

Never ever ever ever ever going to happen. Goodnight.

How about you do your fucking job instead of sitting around making laws about random shit you see on the internet while looking at pictures of lolcats dopey bitch

OH that's fucking hilarious.

But, what. I call people mate all the time. Not so much noob, but still. Where the fuck is my country headed!! Ironic as the R18 rating comes in in a few days i found an upside!! No more 12 year olds playing video games, as they call everyone a noob!

yeah righto cunt, good luck with that

Does this mean I can sue Jullia? She offended me with this law.

Keep in mind this all stems from a Herald Sun article, owned by News Corp. This thread is really starting to read like Fox News comments, which FP loves to complain about. [editline]14th December 2012[/editline] [quote]The Gillard Government's proposed amendments will consolidate existing anti-discrimination laws, so current racial vilification laws against offending or insulting people - the laws that Herald Sun columnist Andrew Bolt was taken to court for over his comments on fair-skinned Aboriginal people - would extend to things like age and gender.[/quote] ok what's the problem

[IMG]http://www.abc.net.au/news/linkableblob/1029882/data/health-and-ageing-minister-nicola-roxon-data.jpg[/IMG] haha look at this fucking noob cunt and her big necklass shit I'm getting arrested, it was nice knowing you all

fukn noob aussie scrubs. Everytime someone uses the word "noob" it reminds me of this and cracks me up. Lets hope fatal1ty never goes to australia. :v: [img]http://i.imgur.com/hBElS.png[/img]

looks like dog treats