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Despite the title this article is related to videogames. If you live in Australia (or heard about us bitching) you'd know that there is no R rating for videogames and this has recently caused Fallout 3 to be refused classification effectively banning it. This video here is just a demonstration of some of the ignorance and stupidity in the Australian government. Most of the panel have no problem censoring games just to keep their children safe, in fact most don't even know their is any rating system for games at all, and one even goes as far as connecting rape to videogames.
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- Austalian politicians appear clueless about video games (neoseeker.com)







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It's sad that every single person in this panel knows absolutely nothing about video games. You'd think they would do a bit of research beforehand, but nooo. They just spout out bullshit, alot of which is false (Australia DOES have a rating system for games, morons).
Ugh, and these are the people leading our country >_>
But even if it isn't, it's pretty sad that they wouldn't know anything about the R18+ issue. It has been a hot-topic in parliament all throughout this year, so they should know something about it.
This whole arguement that video games affect behaviour is ridiculously old now. No, the average person is not going to go on a killing spree because they played a video game. Let people make their own choices.
I feel bad for the Australians too. I haven't seen such a mockery to the justice system since Jack Thomspson and his "crusades"
But unless I again missed everything, it sounded like most were for having an R rating?
Have to remember that if you're not a gamer yourself, the gaming industry can be quite alien and easily misunderstood, so it's understandable they don't know much about the games and such.
Second, I like the bald guy who said that "R rating over the age of 18 is fine" and actually admitted to not playing the game.
Third, we need more people who have played video games defending the players. I know that Australia has this problem apparently, and so does America, but there seems to be no people who have any political power to allow video games to be what they are. I know there just recently was a law made in someplace like NYC that required all video games to go through another rating system that was mandatory compared to the current, optional, but widely done rating.
We just need these people who want to censor everything to step the hell back so that we are able to make choices for ourselves.
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