It can hardly have escaped the notice of even the most vaguely politically inclined that the current state of affairs with our de-facto two party system is less than ideal for the left-leaning voter. We have, in simple terms, a decision between Tony Abbott’s Super-Catholic Hooray Party and our current mob, who are steadily transforming into […]
Archive for the ‘Censorship’ Category
We’ve all heard it; apparently all Australians are racist, all Americans are gun nuts, and all Iraqis are Terrorists – all of which are obviously false. It is easy to see how it happens, take the recent Melbourne murder of an Indian student – the situation is quickly become hyped up and blown out of proportion. This overstatement of […]
Early listeners of the podcast would remember we interviewed an independent game developer called Conor O’Kane.
Conor made a computer game satirising the Japanese whaling program called Harpooned
What made Conor so special, was his ability to bring critical thinking and science awareness to people through the medium of computer games. An effective medium that largely goes […]
If you thought X-ray goggles were a cool idea, well try out T-ray goggles…
Aliens vs Predator game UNBANNED. Take that Michael Atkinson!
Porn. Most used search by children under 7? Gizmodo seems to think so.
Podblack with the goods on Stephen Fry on non-belief!
If you’ve been anywhere on the internet in the past few days you might have noticed that the Australian Government has decided to go ahead with their Internet Filter.
Telegraph.co.uk has a good summary of the news in their article: Australia plans Chinese-style internet filtering
Basically the filter will remove sites that have RC-rated material, which includes:
Now I was planning to write a nice long screed about censorship in Australia, particularly as it pertains to video games. Of course, knowing how I write and how gamers work I’ve decided to avoid the whole tl;dr syndrome and just write something short.
Games are currently being censored and banned because we don’t have an R18+ […]
