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All this is saying is that iphone apps should be on the same playing field as all other computer games sold in Australia. Which is fair enough. Now, I'm the fi
by wakeless 17y ago
All this is saying is that iphone apps should be on the same playing field as all other computer games sold in Australia. Which is fair enough.
Now, I'm the first person to hate on Stephen Conroy and his ridiculously communist sensorship ideals, but this isn't really one of them.
- whatusername 17y agoDid you see the figures posted in the article In 2008-09 the classification board received 7,036 applications. That figure included applications for classifying 4,792 films, 1,095 computer games and 197 publications. What happens when you add 20,000 iPhone games to that. Plus updates - do they have to be re-censored? The principal is ok, but the implementation scares me. (Oh - and we need an 18+ rating for video games, but that's another story)
- fungi 17y agodon't forget nanny.gov.au will have to protect the children from all those evil flash games as well.
- wakeless 17y agoThe principal of classification isn't that great, but it is in play and it is here to stay. So it does need to be fair. This just underlines the point about scalability issues that this is running into and the great wall of Conroy will also run into. We all know the Internet is way too big to control so why try?
- fungi 17y ago> communist sensorship ideals Puritanical catholic not commie, but once the system is in place that wont make a difference. VPN's for one and all! Pretty good deal for the yanks, they get to export freedom of speech for just $5 bucks a month.
- iuybuyvvyu 17y agoA problem in Oz is that there is no 18 cert for computer games. So anything that isn't 'watch with mother' is banned.