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Graffiti Game Banned in Australia

Posted by samzenpus on from the think-of-the-children dept.

afaik_ianal writes "The Sydney Morning Herald is reporting that 'Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure' has been banned in Australia. The game involves battling the authorities to overthrow corrupt officials using only street fighting skills and graffiti. From the article, "The decision was endorsed last night by the Federal Attorney-General, Philip Ruddock, who had asked the board to review of the game's MA15+ classification after local councils and state governments voiced concerns that the game would promote graffiti.""

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  1. More Stupid Censorship and Irony by ami-in-hamburg · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Again, another government stepping in where parents and society in general should be the authority.

    Isn't it ironic though that the point of the game is to fight government corruption and promote freedom of expression.

    1. Re:More Stupid Censorship and Irony by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      America's such a good example.

      Actually, America is a perfect example.

      The more they regulate and litigate the worse things get here.

      There is a correlation, wether the totalitarians want to admit it or not.

      Politicians have absolutely NO RIGHT nor should they have the power to tell the population what is right or moral for what sould be completely obvious reasons to anyone smarter than the average barnyard monkey.

    2. Re:More Stupid Censorship and Irony by lxs · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Isn't it ironic though that the point of the game is to fight government corruption and promote freedom of expression.

      No, it's standard practice in political censorship to attack some side issue and not the political message. For instance, Ulysses was written by an Irishman and criticised British rule over Ireland.

      Ulysses was banned for obscenity rather than for it's political content even though the so called obscene content was tame even for the time in which it was written. The same case can be made for the film of A Clockwork Orange, which I believe is still banned in the UK.

  2. Grafitti vs beating people up... by supertsaar · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So Spraying a tag on a wall is worse than the old knee-to-the-solar-plexus move? Chigago-Curb-Job? Columbian Necktie?
    That makes me very sad. We teach our kids that violence is cool, acceptable, exciting, fun.
    Then we complain about all the violence in the streets.
    If you want to ban a game, please ban it for excessive violence, not for some paint sprayed on walls.

    --
    The Bigger The Headache The Bigger the Pill
  3. It used to be Music by CB-in-Tokyo · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It used to be music that everyone said was a bad influence, now it is Video games.

    I love the following Frank Zappa quotation.

    "There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do
    something we'd all love one another."
    -- Frank Zappa

    Not exactly the same, but close enough if we replace love songs with first person shooters and....

    Nevermind