[ZeroPaid] Aussie Govt to Filter Online Video Games

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Downloadable games, flash-based games, and sites that sell physical copies of games with rating greater than MA15+ (suitable for 15yos) would be blocked, even for adults.

Australia’s ridiculous plan to censor the Internet gets more ridiculous by the day. […]

“For one, this latest expansion of the scheme has to be seen in the wider context of the plan as a whole,” Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA) writes in a press release responding to the news. “Sold to the electorate as a plan to protect children, it actually only targets websites that an adult is likely to encounter, and applies indiscriminately to all Australian homes and businesses. Due to technical limitations, it can’t and won’t stop the traffic of child abuse material. The blacklist is secret, there is no appeal, and what goes on there is controlled by Government. The potential game ban is only one alarming aspect of the plan as a whole.”

http://www.zeropaid.com/news/86511/aussie-govt-to-filter-online-video-games/