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- LouisCipher777, on 06/28/2009, -0/+217wow.
does anyone remember the good ol' days when parents were responsible for keeping inappropriate stuff from their kids and their kids were responsible for finding better places to hide their playboys? - Khast, on 06/27/2009, -2/+174Well, there goes the internet. I suppose next they will ban Google..I mean it links to sex and games which are over MA15...
I think trying to keep children safe is good intentioned...though...here's a thought for you. Why not leave it up to the parents to monitor what their children do online rather than destroying the internet? - budbud83, on 06/27/2009, -4/+141I feel bad for all you Aussies... why not move to Canada?
- nshady, on 06/28/2009, -0/+132This ***** me to tears. Just piss off and leave my internet alone.
- inactive, on 06/28/2009, -0/+86Too many bodily functions at one time.
- Murrabbit, on 06/28/2009, -0/+83Why do politicians (of any nation) seem to feel that you need to child proof everything? What buzz kills, so much for the idea of liberty and personal choice - guess we can't have anything nice because oh no a child might be exposed to it. . . which is apparently bad despite psychological studies which say otherwise.
- ruskicommi, on 06/27/2009, -2/+82For a country that started out as a penal colony, you have some pretty strict rules. That being said I feel bad for you Australians.
- wraiyne, on 06/28/2009, -0/+74what will yatzee review!?!?
- nshady, on 06/28/2009, -1/+73Don't make me come over there.
- Mrubuntu, on 06/28/2009, -0/+56As an Australian citizen I must say that this is either a complete JOKE or a publicity stunt! This will completely destroy the online gaming industry in Australia. What are they thinking. I can understand why a country would censor kiddie porn but this is taking things too far!
INTERNET CENSORSHIP IS NOT A SUBSTITUTE FOR PARENTAL SUPERVISION!!! - canudiggit123, on 06/28/2009, -0/+50The parents are too busy making rules to ban ***** instead of watching their kids.
- Spoonicus, on 06/27/2009, -0/+46HAH!! Thats EXACTLY what I'm doing!
- dsanonline, on 06/28/2009, -2/+46In other news, Australia is the new China.
- copypastry, on 06/28/2009, -0/+42ah yes, one of the greatest arms races of all time.
- ryanonfire, on 06/28/2009, -0/+31:( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_i ...
- ryanonfire, on 06/28/2009, -6/+37It's too cold there :(
- oscarmanutdfan, on 06/28/2009, -2/+32Hopefully this law will never pass through the senate (it hopefully/probably won't as the opposition and Green party oppose the internet censorship law), and if it does, all the /b/ tards in this country will storm parliament.
Also -
http://www.getup.org.au/campaign/SaveTheNet/442
http://www.pirateparty.org.au/ - joaquine, on 06/28/2009, -0/+30Why can't just parents install filters? and just setup their kids an account where they can't install anything... is not that hard to do. Also, constant monitoring when they are at the PC. I guess is okay for dad government to do that :)
- xGeneric, on 06/28/2009, -0/+29Why waste the time to raise your own kid when you can just bitch and moan for someone else to do it? If they succeed in life, you can take all the credit. If they fail, you can blame society.
...that would be funnier if it wasn't so common. - inactive, on 06/28/2009, -1/+30But it's for the children. / s
- phpirate, on 06/28/2009, -0/+26and your 15+ games too, apparently.
- DigitalisAkujin, on 06/28/2009, -3/+28Have fun failing....
- BigVi, on 06/28/2009, -0/+25Yes this is the Diet Coke of censorship, but why doesn't the slippery slope apply to censorship? Australia is now closer to China and Iran than the rest of the west when it comes to censorship.
- inactive, on 06/28/2009, -1/+25Wow, when did the Australian government go insane?
- LoneWolf01, on 06/28/2009, -0/+24Not necessarily pirates. My great-great-etc.-father stole a sheep.
- inactive, on 06/28/2009, -0/+24They lied! From Child porn to games in the space of 12 months..
***** Conroy
***** labor.
***** nanny states.
http://www.getup.org.au/campaign/SaveTheNet/442
Please Email one or both of these and make them stop Labor from being *****.
Liberals
http://www.liberal.org.au/contact/contactus.php
The Greens
http://greens.org.au/contact
Keep the bastards honest! Do not fail! - grumpyrain, on 06/28/2009, -3/+27lol @ thinking 30C is hot.
- Nboy514, on 06/28/2009, -0/+23Well let me be the first to welcome you, eh!
- DouglasQ, on 06/28/2009, -1/+24You can fight in a war but can't play a game that simulates it?
- RustyBlade, on 06/28/2009, -0/+23Is that an invite :D
This thing is becoming ridiculous. When are people going to take responsibility for their own lives/kids?!?!
Please save us from the thought police! - NiMip, on 06/28/2009, -0/+22You're ***** kidding me...
- Khast, on 06/28/2009, -1/+23Hint: get off the internet while you can. Because with that kind of thinking, there won't be an internet in a couple years.
So, after everyone starts filtering MA15 stuff, and all...What will they filter next? Then after that? you get the picture, right?
If you let the government decide what to filter on the internet, the world's internet will become like China's....but of course our kids will be protected....from what? - dave2003, on 06/28/2009, -0/+20An extreme right wing evangelical christian party called Family First holds the balance of power in the senate, this censorship of the internet is something they really want and it seems that Labor are prepared to give it to them in exchange for passing other bills.
- Kaegro, on 06/28/2009, -2/+21Global warming is realy heating things up up here, another 10 years and the weather will be awesome!
- synapz, on 06/28/2009, -0/+17No, no, no.
They don't give a damn how much you drink. It's just a convenient excuse to generate revenue. - Kaegro, on 06/28/2009, -1/+17The Australian Gov't doesnt want kids playing vid games becasue it will take them away from drinking. The Aussies have the "biggest" drinking reat per capita in the world. It would be a shame to have all that money taken away from their breweries and have it spent over seas.
- xanarax, on 06/28/2009, -0/+15While the censorship is a problem, all the ISPs out here are laughing their balls off at the idea, we all know it'll just take a secure gateway and we'll bypass any filtering. Most ISPs are going along with it, simply to prove it doesn't work. And the people using the net to distribute kiddy porn will always be one step ahead.
- cfuse, on 06/28/2009, -1/+16***** Stephen Conroy and the rest of the ALP.
- AdrianKRAZY, on 06/28/2009, -0/+14Any chicks wanna marry me into Canada so we can play violent video games together ?. PM me.
- hmm5053, on 06/28/2009, -1/+15As a form of protest I'm going to block all of Australia from my internet
- inactive, on 06/28/2009, -1/+15wow dude. the aust population doesnt even support this. nice way to hand out the blame. are you retarded?
- RoboRay, on 06/28/2009, -1/+15Only "stole" a sheep? Are you sure there's not a little bit more to the story, there?
- cfuse, on 06/28/2009, -1/+13Right after the ALP gained power. I never thought I'd see the day that the Coalition would be the right choice - I was dead wrong.
- celotil, on 06/28/2009, -1/+13"Why can't just parents install filters? and just setup their kids an account where they can't install anything..."
*snigger*
"is not that hard to do."
BWAHAHAHA ...
Excuse while I wipe the tears of bitter humour from my eyes.
If you want to know how BADLY screwed the Australian IT industry is, just look at our biggest retailer's web sites. There is no actual catalogue, just scans of the latest sales junk mail, and no way to order online, just links to "here we are, come on down!"
Well I would, but your ***** up inventory system, built in the 50's, only has half your catalogue sent near where I live, AND I'M NOT FLYING 900 KILOMETRES FOR A ***** SUIT!
Look at the sites of Myer, David Jones, Harvey Norman ... Look at them, and realise that most, say 95%, of Australians think that's a GOOD site.
No, you idiots, that's a ***** BAD site. Amazon has a good site, but Amazon doesn't export but 5% of their catalogue to Australia. *mumble****** Amazon.
*mumble, mutter* ***** Oz IT is *****. I should ***** know, I was pushing ***** up-hill for over a decade in that *****, fighting arse-holes who didn't know anything at all who were telling me how to ***** up my job when I was making it work just fine, whether it was Tech Support, System Admin (Win, Lin, BSD, and Mac), Network rewiring (never asked to build a network, just rebuild someone else's *****), or Web Design.
I told 'em, I TOLD 'em.
Millennium, hand, and shrimp. - sathias, on 06/28/2009, -0/+12"Can you imagine the number of games that will be included?"
You don't need to imagine it, you can look at the list of banned games from the last 10 years to get a fair idea.
SEXY POKER Nintendo Wii RC 13/05/2009
NECROVISION Multi Platform RC 07/04/2009
RESERVOIR DOGS Multi Platform RC 23/06/2006
NARC Multi Platform RC 08/04/2005
SHELLSHOCK NAM67 Multi Platform RC 22/06/2004
BMX XXX Multi Platform RC 16/10/2002
http://classification.gov.au/www/cob/find.nsf/clas ... - Lionhart, on 06/28/2009, -0/+12Good old nanny states.
- NiMip, on 06/28/2009, -3/+15Blame Canada! Blame Canada!
With all their beady little eyes,
And flapping heads so full of lies! - wild, on 06/28/2009, -0/+12Playboys? I still remember the day I discovered the lingerie section of the JC Penny catalog...
- MyMainMan, on 06/28/2009, -0/+12If this goes through, I guess the Australian people will have to use a VPN service. That was what I had to do when they enforced stricter rules for file-sharing/pirating here in Sweden in April 1.
- mynameistux, on 06/28/2009, -0/+11time to set up a VPN overseas.
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