0..o Wow. That is just sad, bet they can't wait until all those old broads in office die off. That's worse then fucking Germany.

Who do you think censors more, Australia or China?

Reasoned things have been posted, so i'm just going to reinforce that this is absolutely 'effing insane...

wow. that's like... 80% of the internet? Australia, you just outdid china!

I'll admit I'm pretty ignorant about how other countries block content. Can't proxy servers help out with this problem?

So basically Nintendo is paying off the Australian government?

@ ThunderHeart, you just made my day lol.

Good thing the brazilian government doesn't gives shet about games!
They once ban Everquest and Counter Strike here, but they regreted that decision and made them legal again.

wow that really blows. sorry Australia, but sure you guys will figure something out.

Thank you jim for bringing up Thomas the Tank Engine this weekend b4 i head to college.

o and that is pretty shittastic of aussieland to be doing this. i mean this is a sign of the impending collapse of the internet ads a realm of potential not unlike the roman empire.

wow i wonder how long before they tried that bullshit in the U.S.???

This is a real shame. Thing is the only people that have the power to change this bs, is aussie citizens themselves. Get out there and protest, for your freedoms are being stolen under a false guise of fear.

Aussie gamers and net users, if you do not act, you will be prisoners of your government. How long before they go down the Iran/China route, and start censoring anti government websites? There will be no end to it, so you must all organise yourselves and stand up and be counted.

Its true, it is about a generation gap. Those in power don't even want to try to understand the younger people and what they like. Better to just ban/block them.

Don't forget, ISP receive your money. It only takes a lot of you calling to cancel you accounts to quash this. ISPs will panic because of losing customers and back out of blocking such material. Overall, they have the switches and there's little chances of the government closing ISPs down.

You, the aussie people pay their bills and can seriously hurt their business. Just tell them if material is going to be blocked, you'll close your account. If an ISP received a few thousand calls like this, they'd have to act, as that's a lot of money they'd be losing. Sure, it may sound crazy, but its worth a try.

If Twitter can rally a nation to seek freedom from oppression, you aussies need to use the net to your advantage too, of forever be jailbirds.

Remember, the government should fear the people, not the other way around. Don't let them get their way.

Someone call Anonymous!

Communists

Craigslist, eBay, Amazon, BestBuy, etc? This is either going to be very easy (and reasonably expensive) to get around or it's going to be iron-clad for a very short while before the Australian government realsies that it's being unreasonable and fucking stupid.

This is stupid!

In other news, Jim, where did your post go on that contest? I've been working on my picture only to find that post...gone?

I agree its amazingly daft to even consider this course of action valid. I still have faith that this is not going to go ahead, there are many people that appose it and the only reason its there is because of this dickhead communications minister Stephen Conroy.
He seriously needs to be booted out on his arse.

If you live in Australia, be sure to let Stephen Conroy what you think about this piece of incredibly asinine government censorship: minister@dbcde.gov.au

This is just part of the government's larger desire to 'protect' us from teh internet by filtering it, something that angers and frightens me at the same time.

What a bunch of douchebags. Look at what happened when the US tried to ban alcohol. That didn't work, this won't work as well. What a bunch of power-mad assholes.

Stephen Conroy is an ignorant twit, plain and simple. And thanks to the recent happenings in our Government ('ute-gate' -_-) I really don't want to vote for either at the next election.

This is a mix of insanity and politics that makes me want to puke.
Australians cant be that stupid, they got to do something.

"Yay for living in New Zealand where R18 games sell regularly and not in Australia!"

As a fellow New Zealander I see this having an effect on us too. I'd say about half, maybe more of the people we play with online with are Aussies.

Just a matter of time before they start playing classical music in the streets.

Let them try I say, let them try.