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AU Classification Board To Censor Mobile Apps
bennyboy64 writes "The Australian Classification Board is seeking to censor mobile phone applications under its National Classification Scheme. 'I recently wrote to the minister [Minister McDonald] regarding my concern that some so-called mobile phone applications, which can be purchased online or either downloaded to mobile phones or played online via mobile phone access, are not being submitted to the board for classification,' Australia's Classification Board director Donald McDonald told a Senate Estimates committee. I wonder if they know that there are over 80,000 applications on the iPhone platform alone?"
Then I RTFA:
Well, how charmingly honest of them. In a more sophisticated regime, that would be "Minister for the Protection of Cute Children's Precious, Precious Innocence."
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
No need to worry yet. Perhaps the categories will be
1. Boobies
2. Extra Boobies
3. Mediocre girl-girl
4. Wicked Awesome girl-girl
5. Why would you pay 99 cents for that boring thing, mate?
"stick their fingers in the dyke"
Best. Analogy. Ever.
I hate printers.
Not sure Penny Wong is available for that.
http://michaelsmith.id.au
a few isolated but popular (newsworthy) apps which have the potential to be politically embarrassing.
AbiMap - tracks troop and train movements so users can see where the Aborigines are being exported for "resettlement"
Conroy - "Censor it! Censor it now!"
UniformedThug- "Yes sir!"
Conroy - "And terminate the programmer of this app with extreme prejudice."
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
"Australians have access to games that I HAVEN'T APPROVED OF! This is absolutely intolerable!"
The system of censorship I describe, and support, also prevents videos of child abuse being sold freely in video stores. You're obviously happy for this material to be distributed?