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**Banned?** · 27th June 2009

http://www.destructoid.com/australia...e-137682.phtml

Australia's censorship crusade continues! Yesterday, we talked about how the Australian government was about to start censoring the Internet, and today we find out that Second Life is also about to be blocked. I think the country is only one step away from burning people at the stake for crimes of witchcraft.

I like this bit...

Presumably Second Life is being banned because you can choose to do sexy things if you truly want to. I heard you can do that in real life as well, so maybe Australia should just kill everybody in the country.

I guess they didn't take my easy to follow advice from the last thread...

**compwhizii** · 27th June 2009

And nothing of value was lost.

**Banned?** · 27th June 2009

compwhizii posted:

And nothing of value was lost.

It's only step one. This can get very scary.

psot · 27th June 2009

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahhahahahahahahaha hahahahahahhahahahahahahahahaha

**doomkiwi** · 27th June 2009

Oh god, I'm so conflicted. I hate that furry cesspool which burned my eyes but I also hate the Australian government's crusade on videogames...

**mugofdoom** · 27th June 2009

Yeah keet at it.

PS360 · 27th June 2009

I am laughing over the fact that someone in austrialia might of made a living over Second Life

rilez · 27th June 2009

Why is Australia doing this?

I don't understand the situation over there. Why are they censoring all your shit?

pimp_kewkie · 27th June 2009

I can hear the furries now...

**Jacklus** · 27th June 2009

MMO's can't really have a rating as the content is determined but who's playing it. Since it can't be rated, it's banned.

Systematik · 27th June 2009

It's not like anyone lives there anyways.

**Captain Forever** · 27th June 2009

Shit's going to go down if they keep at it.

**Lankist** · 27th June 2009

Of all the demographics in the world, I'd say Second Life players are the LEAST likely to initiate a violent overthrow.

Just sayin'. Y'all are fucked for now.

**Banned?** · 27th June 2009

rilez posted:

Why is Australia doing this?

I don't understand the situation over there. Why are they censoring all your shit?

No good reason. They think they need to protect the chillun', so instead of doing the right and smart thing of updating their absolute pile of shit for a rating system, they just ban it all and pretend it doesn't exist.

GiacJr · 27th June 2009

*facepalm*
kevin rudd is a cunt

**TheTalon** · 27th June 2009

So, once you eliminate video games, what's next... To my knowledge people killed other people and had sex with each other long before video games, sometimes even in that order

**Kilr** · 27th June 2009

Rather than say something ill-informed, I'll ask, was the person who introduced this new system elected on a platform consisting of a plan to do this?

**HubmaN** · 27th June 2009

Dear god, don't they realize you can do things of a sexual nature in real life too? BAN LIFE!

tarkio · 27th June 2009

compwhizii posted:

And nothing of value was lost.

In Australia, they came first for Second Life, and I didn’t speak up because I didn't like Second Life;

And then they came for GTA Hot Coffee, and I didn’t speak up because I didn't like GTA Hot Coffee;

And then they came for the Postal 2, and I didn’t speak up because I didn't like Postal 2;

And then... they came for me... and by that time there was no one left to speak up.

Mr. Mcguffin · 27th June 2009

tarkio posted:

In Australia, they came first for Second Life, and I didn’t speak up because I didn't like Second Life;

And then they came for GTA Hot Coffee, and I didn’t speak up because I didn't like GTA Hot Coffee;

And then they came for the Postal 2, and I didn’t speak up because I didn't like Postal 2;

And then... they came for me... and by that time there was no one left to speak up.

As hackneyed, poorly delivered, and absent minded as your post is, you're right.

Hey, does this mean Australia sucks more than the US now?

The Un-Men · 27th June 2009

That'll teach those furcunts. But I feel sorry for the rest of Australia.

McSanchez · 27th June 2009

Their criminal gene will just make them break those laws anyways.

**cardboard_panda** · 27th June 2009

What is Australia trying to accomplish?

**wingless** · 27th June 2009

I'm sorry but thank you fuck tards of the government, I just lost communication with my best fucking friend who I actually haven't seen for over 8 years, I'm about to fucking murder you all!

**ThatHippyMan** · 27th June 2009

cardboard_panda posted:

What is Australia trying to accomplish?

To try to erase the fact that they are still, deep inside, a prison colony. Censoring the present can never erase the past!

Also, am I the only one who is imagining an Australian version of V for Vendetta?

**Alex_DeLarge** · 27th June 2009

As much as I hate Second Life, I also hate censorship, especially censoring something that is so trivial to the extent to where you wonder why they even had a discussion about this.

occer · 27th June 2009

Woo!

Seriously though, I believe that the Net Filter bill can't be passed as the senate does not agree to it.

**piddlezmcfuz** · 27th June 2009

I will laugh hard when they rename themselves Oceania.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. · 27th June 2009

McSanchez posted:

Their criminal gene will just make them break those laws anyways.

:dogout:

ReznorT · 27th June 2009

FUCK iT

Edited:

Time for US VPNs

Frozen_Fish · 27th June 2009

They're not just going to ban Second Life; every MMORPG, online game or online store with content over the MA15+ rating will be banned:
http://www.mywii.com.au/NewsDetail.aspx?id=3662

FPSDars · 27th June 2009

That game hardly ran anyway. It looked like shit and it was a crash fest.

Mr. Mcguffin · 27th June 2009

Frozen_Fish posted:

They're not just going to ban Second Life; every MMORPG, online game or online store with content over the MA15+ rating will be banned:
http://www.mywii.com.au/NewsDetail.aspx?id=3662

PFFFahahahahahaha!

Maybe they should round off the corners of the internet browsers so kids don't replicate them and cut themselves.

**NeoTurtle** · 27th June 2009

Good thing I don't play MMO's then. I really hope this shit doesn't go down though.

**Detective P** · 27th June 2009

This is turning into Norsefire rather quickly.

**Madman_Andre** · 27th June 2009

Lankist posted:

Of all the demographics in the world, I'd say Second Life players are the LEAST likely to initiate a violent overthrow.

Just sayin'. Y'all are fucked for now.

World of Warcraft on the other hand...

Just imagine, if they try to ban that, eleven million angry nerds with torches and pitchforks descending on the Australian Capitol to rip apart Rudd with their bare sweaty hands...

rilez · 27th June 2009

ThatHippyMan posted:

To try to erase the fact that they are still, deep inside, a prison colony. Censoring the present can never erase the past!

Also, am I the only one who is imagining an Australian version of V for Vendetta?

no because the Parliament isn't in Australia

**markg06** · 27th June 2009

Oh well just import games that you want.

**wildturkey50** · 27th June 2009

Any site that allows downloads, or hosts games that contain content that is deemed inappropriate for 15-year-olds. This includes services such as Steam, and could potentially cripple the future of digital distribution in Australia.

you have GOT TO BE FUCKING KIDDING ME.

**Kilr** · 27th June 2009

Looks like Australia is headed back to the stone age! Have fun!

On another note, I'd say...more than 70% of the internet is things which this system would deem inappropriate.

Also, did Australian citizens vote this shit into effect? I have the strangest feeling they didn't, or that if they did, it was coated in glittering generalities making it seem to do more than it would.