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?"

Comments

Re:the Commonwealth Censorship Ministery

[jipn4]

Government: magically transforming self-righteous assholes into civil servants.

Think positively: it's one of the few skills that government is really good at :-)

Re:I was going to take issue with the word "censor

[srjh]

Unfortunately they're not quite that honest - that title is from the author, not the Australian Government.

His actual title is "Minister for Home Affairs".

I would have said that the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy was more deserving of that title. He's the one pushing for mandatory state-wide internet filtering, three-strike copyright infringement laws, and privacy/interception exemptions for ISPs so they can prove their users aren't breaking the law. Also known as the internet villain of the year.

Already planned in South Korea

[AdamInParadise]

1) The South Korea's Games Rating Board is supposed to certify every game.
2) The Jesus Phone is finally about to be launched in South Korea and it will be widely popular for lots of reasons (you can trust me on this one).

But because of 1), the South Korean AppStore will not include games...

Yes, a state can do that.

[Already posted in a similar story a few days ago.]