Comments on: Australias Net Will Filter MA15+ Games

By: FactChecks

FactChecks — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 06:20:14 +0000

@ Tris
Mate, firstly don’t get me wrong i agree with your first line. However, Conroy is not the one holding back the R18+ rating. You will find it is Michael Atkinson the Attorney General for SA. He is the only AG that opposed the r18 classification.
This will explain a bit for you:
http://www.efa.org.au/2009/11/17/michael-atkinson-replies-to-r18-enquiries/

By: Marcel

Marcel — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:06:57 +0000

Argh. This pisses me off beyond belief. If any of you want MA15+ games, I’ll send over hard copies from NZ.

By: Tris

Tris — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:53:25 +0000

Conroy is a fucking idiot.

So, he is worried about 15 year old’s, living in Australia, playing games that are too “graphic” for the MA15+ Rating category.

THEN MAKE A FUCKING R18+ RATING CATEGORY YOU FUCK. With the MA15+ Rating being the highest, of course it is going to contain the most gory games (or games containing sexual references/scenes etc.) developers are able to produce (no shit). Opening the R18+ Rating category allows these games to have no content restriction (so they are able to fit into the MA15+ category, and therefore sell), which is more fun for us AND 15 year old’s are not able to buy these.

Conclusion:
It’s simple – these “unsuitable” games MUST be in the MA15+ Rating category, BECAUSE that is the highest rating category. Government start to whine because these games (that are already ‘CAPPED’ content wise) are not suited for 15 year olds. THEN DON’T MAKE THEM AVAILABLE FOR 15 YEAR OLDS! NO WAI \(0.o)/

Good day.

By: unkown

unkown — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:32:02 +0000

Senator Conroy is a cock, why the fuck would a person who plays games in australia want there fucking games censored, because some old wanker is scared and has nothing better to do. We should have the choice, not be forced to play censored games. The government should think of there priorities more, all this money on filtering useless shit is a waste of money.

By: Erin Thomson

Erin Thomson — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 08:54:16 +0000

THIS IS FUCKING BULLSHIT!!!

By: Jakub

Jakub — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 01:39:00 +0000

If they are going to close steam im going to want compensation FOR ALL THE games that run off steam which is ALOT stupid bastards internet isnt just for kids the only thing kids should be doing with the internet is helping there study with it anything after that should be somewhat controlled by a parent why does someone 25+ need to get bollocksed for this i dont know.

By: Chriso

Chriso — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 14:18:29 +0000

There’s always proxy connections I guess, even though they may be rather laggy due to the absence of VDSL connections in this country.

Btw VDSL connections would cost the government a lot of money which will mean data rates for the service will be astronomically high + since this is Australia they will probably double it just for kicks…

By: AzzX

AzzX — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 11:43:17 +0000

So this filter is going to block Steam and all its content partners…..
Yeah Right.

The current Government is a joke – Do they really think they can push these sort of backward ideals onto us Gamers?

By: Bert

Bert — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 11:27:23 +0000

This is accurate, heard it been reported on many different sites. Australia is the backwater of the 1st world internet community.

By: WoW fan...

WoW fan... — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 10:53:55 +0000

Is this really accurate?

Slow the whole development of Australia? Come on, get a better grip of the facts before you derail whole anti-censorship drive here…

I am sure that a $880billion GDP just depends on the sale of games over MA15+…