Hi Corrado,
This does appear to be the case, here's an article from last
Thursday's Sydney Morning Herald
http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/games/web-filters-to-censor-video-
games-20090625-cxrx.html
The ban already exists on the physical sale of games that are
considered too explicit or violent, there's a good article on CNET
which looks at the history of game classification over here (National
Classification Scheme legislation). The introduction of an R18+
rating has been considered but would have to be agreed by all state
and territory Attorneys-Generals before being put to legislation at a
Federal level, this has already received objections from the
Victorian minister in 2008.
http://www.cnet.com.au/censory-overload-games-censorship-in-
australia-339288039.htm
Games are not the only media that may face mandatory censorship and
filtering by ISPs with no customer opt-out in new legislation being
pushed by Labour's Communication Minister Stephen Conroy. The No
Clean Feed campaign is a great source of news and background information
http://nocleanfeed.com/
Neil
On 28/06/2009, at 8:21 PM, Corrado Morgana wrote:
Not sure of the veracity of this..could anyone comment?
http://www.gossipgamers.com/australias-net-will-filter-ma15-games/
The Australian government has set their eyes on gamers, promising
to user its internet censorship regime to block websites hosting
and selling video games that are not suitable for 15 year olds. Can
you imagine the number of games that will be included?
I was feeling bad for Germans as there was a proposed banning for
all violent games but Australia is about to take it much harder. To
further complicate things, Australia does not have even have a R18+
rating. For video games, MA15+ is as high as it goes while movies
and such has R18+ and X18+. Games will be required to modify their
content to meet the MA15+ guidelines in order for distribution.
Corrado Morgana
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