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What extensive censorship of media? Australian's have plenty of 'constitutional rights', the right to vote, the right to property, the right to trial by jury, f
by calsy 4y ago
What extensive censorship of media? Australian's have plenty of 'constitutional rights', the right to vote, the right to property, the right to trial by jury, freedom of religion.
- jasongi 4y ago"constitutional rights as Americans understand them" I assume is referring to the bill of rights. Australia doesn't have a bill of rights and most of our "rights" mentioned above are not "constituional" (in the sense that the constitution guarentees them) and are either conferred via common law, legislation, or not at all. And to be honest, I am OK with this. A lot of negative change in the US seems to be coming from a SCOTUS that nobody voted for and that the regular population cannot overrule without a constitutional amendment.
- jaza 4y agoYep. The general consensus here in Australia is: "look at the USA, their bill of rights has the right to bear arms, gee didn't that turn out great, we'll stick with what we've got thanks".
- senorrib 4y agoYou missed the “ as Americans understand them” part. Those are rights, but not constitutional.
- enasterosophes 4y ago
- ioseph 4y agoLot's of videogames have had to be modified to be released here, in recent memory Hotline Miami 2, Stick of Truth, Fallout 3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_banned_video_games_in_Australia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_banned_video_games_in_...
- merek 4y agoFrom your link: > Stick of Truth: Banned because of a scene of sexual violence involving minors. Sounds to me like the censors are doing a good job.
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- Mordisquitos 4y agoAre the censors doing a good job? What about these reasons? > Banned for drug use related to incentives and rewards. > Banned because of sexuality and nudity in relation to incentives and rewards. > Banned because of high impact violence and torture. > Banned because of high impact bloody violence.
- veeti 4y agoI'm sorry you hate your freedoms. Just for some context, this horrifying clip of child sexual abuse seems to be freely available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1NiMzlDBO8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1NiMzlDBO8
- calsy 4y agoYes there was no R rating for a long time, and the ASRB still takes a negative view of illicit drug use in games. But is 'cant use illicit drugs in games' the definition of excessive media censorship?
- veeti 4y agoAbsolutely? Sounds like some Saudi Arabia tier shit. Australia: you are in good company.
- SiempreViernes 4y agoThe literal raids to prevent the media from reporting on Ozzie Special Forces committing gruesome murders in Afghanistan come to mind. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-51526607 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-51526607