Posts Tagged ‘Censorship’

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 […]

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+ […]