They're not just going to ban Second Life; every MMORPG, online game or online store with content over the MA15+ rating will be banned:
[url]http://www.mywii.com.au/NewsDetail.aspx?id=3662[/url]
That game hardly ran anyway. It looked like shit and it was a crash fest.
[QUOTE=Frozen_Fish;15733928]They're not just going to ban Second Life; every MMORPG, online game or online store with content over the MA15+ rating will be banned:
[url]http://www.mywii.com.au/NewsDetail.aspx?id=3662[/url][/QUOTE]
PFFFahahahahahaha!
Maybe they should round off the corners of the internet browsers so kids don't replicate them and cut themselves.
Good thing I don't play MMO's then. I really hope this shit doesn't go down though.
This is turning into Norsefire rather quickly.
[QUOTE=Lankist;15732995]Of all the demographics in the world, I'd say Second Life players are the LEAST likely to initiate a violent overthrow.
Just sayin'. Y'all are fucked for now.[/QUOTE]
World of Warcraft on the other hand...
Just imagine, if they try to ban that, eleven million angry nerds with torches and pitchforks descending on the Australian Capitol to rip apart Rudd with their bare sweaty hands...
[QUOTE=ThatHippyMan;15733497]To try to erase the fact that they are still, deep inside, a prison colony. Censoring the present can never erase the past!
Also, am I the only one who is imagining an Australian version of V for Vendetta?[/QUOTE]
no because the Parliament isn't in Australia
Oh well just import games that you want.
[quote]Any site that allows downloads, or hosts games that contain content that is deemed inappropriate for 15-year-olds. This [b]includes services such as Steam[/b], and could potentially cripple the future of digital distribution in Australia.[/quote]
you have GOT TO BE FUCKING KIDDING ME.
Looks like Australia is headed back to the stone age! Have fun!
On another note, I'd say...more than 70% of the internet is things which this system would deem inappropriate.
Also, did Australian citizens vote this shit into effect? I have the strangest feeling they didn't, or that if they did, it was coated in glittering generalities making it seem to do more than it would.
You can't be serious at all. This probably sucks for my pals in Australia. But seriously, there's no way in hell everyone's going to sit around and do nothing while everything even remotely related to mature content is stripped from them, right? On the other hand, I hope this retarded thinking doesn't spread to our government :tinfoil:
[QUOTE=EvilSquirrel;15734449]You can't be serious at all. This probably sucks for my pals in Australia. But seriously, there's no way in hell everyone's going to sit around and do nothing while everything even remotely related to mature content is stripped from them, right? On the other hand, I hope this retarded thinking doesn't spread to our government :tinfoil:[/QUOTE]
This government has far more fucking important things to do, I'd sooner drag my ass to Washington and shoot every corrupt fucking politician in the Capitol than watch them do something that stupid while this country's economy is in shambles.
Why don't they work on something the people have been asking a countless number of years for, improving internet access, instead of doing something we've never asked for which will make us upset.
[QUOTE=Madman_Andre;15734204]World of Warcraft on the other hand...
Just imagine, if they try to ban that, eleven million angry nerds with torches and pitchforks descending on the Australian Capitol to rip apart Rudd with their bare sweaty hands...[/QUOTE]
They wouldn't make it up the capitol building's stairs.
[quote=wildturkey50;15734409]you have got to be fucking kidding me.[/quote]
HOLY SHIT!
Steam.. Banned?
I suddenly hate the Australian goverment more than before.
[QUOTE=Lankist;15734560]They wouldn't make it up the capitol building's stairs.[/QUOTE]
They'll use mounts and ride up.
This will probably only result in the opposite of their goal to make people non-violent.
Don't they have rights to vote on things like this?
Hopefully they do something extremely stupid that causes revolts and overthrows of the government.
Really? Getting rid of something they have a choice not to buy or do in the first place?
The pirateing in games is going to sky rocket here soon, and with the internet censor thing people can just change they're IP so they look like they are in America and by-pass it.
[QUOTE=markg06;15734622]They'll use mounts and ride up.[/QUOTE]
I'm pretty sure a bunch of WoW nerds have never mounted anything in their lives.
Holy fuck
Their worse than Saudi Arabia's censorship.
[QUOTE=rilez;15734290]no because the [b]English[/b] Parliament isn't in Australia[/QUOTE]
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[QUOTE=HubmaN;15733190]Dear god, don't they realize you can do [i]things of a sexual nature[/i] in real life too? BAN LIFE![/QUOTE]
No, no, just [I]censor[/I] life!
[QUOTE=markg06;15734622]They'll use mounts and ride up.[/QUOTE]
How would they get past the security. i recall there being some when i went to parliment last year
[QUOTE=Kilr;15734443]
Also, did Australian citizens vote this shit into effect? I have the strangest feeling they didn't, or that if they did, it was coated in glittering generalities making it seem to do more than it would.[/QUOTE]
We voted the Labor government in but most didn't have any idea about their Net Filtering policies.
However [url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/02/27/2503830.htm?section=australia]this plan will hopefully not pass through the senate[/url] so all is well.
[QUOTE=Kilr;15734443]
Also, did Australian citizens vote this shit into effect? I have the strangest feeling they didn't, or that if they did, it was coated in glittering generalities making it seem to do more than it would.[/QUOTE]
I don't think that's how democracy in Australia works. Vote a party in and they can propose all sorts of shit. It's up to the Opposition (and other various parties with enough power) to stop them.
Thank God i didn't move then.
Sigh, Australia just keeps getting worse. They can't be serious about this bullshit.
It's interesting to see liberties on things slowly degrade. Think of the shit you could do one hundred years ago. You could order a military grade machine gun out of a magazine, a short time before that you could buy and use all kinds of drugs without much taboo and certainly without any legal intervention. 50 years ago things were much more lax, alcohol could be purchased at 18 and smoking was the norm.
As of now smoking is being banned from everything but homes and outdoors, I don't smoke but it is a bit depressing to know you couldn't smoke in a bar.
So just think, 30 years from now you could look back and think "Holy shit, GTA would be SO illegal today." Anything with serious gore in it would be either highly restricted or banned all together. Same for a lot of the things you enjoy and possibly take for granted, like fatty foods. So if nothing else, enjoy it while it lasts.
And so begins the astralian furry upriseing, they will leave there homes pillageing, burning, and raping all.
And australia will be renamed the land of no return.
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