Australia's censorship crusade continues! Yesterday, we talked about how the Australian government was about to start censoring the Internet, and today we find out that Second Life is also about to be blocked. I think the country is only one step away from burning people at the stake for crimes of witchcraft.
Minister Stephen Conroy has confirmed that online adult games, including Second Life, will be barred under the ministry's sinister "filtering plan." The censorship will extend beyond mainstream titles and into the realm of flash-based Web games, as well as the previously discussed sites selling physical copies of games of games that exceed the country's MA15+ rating.
Presumably Second Life is being banned because you can choose to do sexy things if you truly want to. I heard you can do that in real life as well, so maybe Australia should just kill everybody in the country. They might as well have a Holocaust to top things off, the way they're going.
Incredibly unnerving stuff, and truly a sad, sad way for a supposedly developed nation to behave. This is the kind of nonsense I'd expect from people who are yet to discover electricity. Australia, the rest of the world is disappointed in you.
Except Germany, who remains strangely impressed.
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8:30 PM on 06.26.2009
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Also, I think it's just a marketing ploy to get people interested in 'Home'. If you remove any alternative, it starts looking good.
I doubt that the rest of the world know that Australia have anything more than kangaroo's and koala's.
Am I missing the point here or is there a gramatic error?
@HiddenAHB
So in one article you complain about Brazil being stereotipized as samba and shanks then you proceed to talk about another country is made only of it's stereotypes?
/facepalm
I'll be damn shocked if America has any more part in this spiral. D:
We certainly do... *face palm*
its official, australia has failed , for their government doing this, and for their people not throwing the government into the pit of molten copper.
Yeah, because the power of 'the people' to stop government actions is so apparent in every other developed nation.
[i]I doubt that the rest of the world is dissapointed.
I doubt that the rest of the world know that Australia have anything more than kangaroo's and koala's.[/i]
Whilst disturbing.... half the comments on this site about Australia prove your point. We are not ignorant, racist, backwards fuckwits..... they're just the ones in power.
If crocodile Dundee was around he wouldn't let this shit go down.
Oh, a Crocodile Dundee reference in an Australia article. You sir, should write a fucking book.
There has to be some sort of opposition to this kind of shit. Where is it and what is it doing?
Our 'opposition' just got into power and made this decision -__-'
In the USA they couldnt because they have a constitution. In the UK they can be as stupid as the germans.
I enjoy laughing at your puritanical backwardness. This is what happens when you let your gov't take away booze and porn from one group of people (aboriginals, they're such children y'know). They then have precedent to start banning or taking away other things from the public at large for the "greater good". I toast your douchebaggery, enjoy your FAIL.
It was supposed to be sarcasm...
Thanks for showing my failure to the world.
PS: I know that the words are mispelled but i have a shitty keyboard and english, and i'm too lazy to read what i've just written so...
Jim officially downloads Second Life porn.
Fuck I hate living in Australia some times, yes it a freaken awesome country but its soo ass backwards when it comes to video games it shits me.
You see what Iran is doing?
DO IT.
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This proposed "internets filtering" debacle is going from bad to worse and now because we have an inadequate rating system for video games its being lumped in as well.
We probably wont be missing much with Second Life being banned but that's beside the point
But the government sure can be annoying at times. The whole lack of a R18 thing, this internet filter thing, and in certain states (where I live in Victoria especially) the over the top use of speed cameras. Probably a lot more things to mention, but I don't get very political.
Still an awesome country, just a bit screwed over being a gamer.
As for Second Life, well that sure won't be missed, at least by me or anyone else I know. Seriously, who actually plays that crap.
Oh wait! Too late!
Gamers cant do what they are doing in Iran because then we would all fit the stereotype: violent kids that train on murder simulators! You know its true!
"Whilst disturbing.... half the comments on this site about Australia prove your point. We are not ignorant, racist, backwards fuckwits..... they're just the ones in power."
Oh, that's good to know. So then the people in charge will be voted out of office pretty soon then? It's all good. I remember when Bush Jr. was our president for 1 term. He was a moron, wasn't he? Good thing that the American people are not ignorant, racist, backwards fuckwits, and they voted him out as soon as they could.
Oh, wait, that's not what happened, is it? He was re-elected, wasn't he? So maybe that means that when retarded leaders are elected and manage to stay in power, the people are fuckwits who are getting exactly what they deserve. But hey, maybe Australia will catch on quick and boot these guys out of office. There's a first time for everything after all.
Well played, sir. Well played indeed...
No love for SL on my end (former player, perhaps I'll someday write why I gave up on it), but this is way too much.
Communications minister Stephen Conroy revealed the mandatory censorship to the Senate estimates committee as the Global Network Initiative....to "protect the freedom of expression"..."
I'm surely no intellect, but isn't this the opposite?
I no one shouldn't say this, but I really start to hate my country.
One shouldn't have to be ashamed of one's nationality. Yet the German government tries really hard to make us. It's a sad world.
Stop taking Destructoid so seriously.
Kinda hard to do that when you have 2 dozen posts insulting your nationality.