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May 5th, 2008 @ 19:29
According to this New Zealand Herald report, the Office of Film and Literature Classification (OFLC) has been warning retailers this week to stay off supplying GTA IV to parents “demanding” the game for their children.
“If it’s perfectly obvious the parent is buying the game for the child, don’t sell it to the parent,” said New Zealand’s chief censor Bill Hastings. “If a game is R18 it’s R18 for a reason and it’s illegal to make it available to anyone under that age.”
He added: “When the violence does happen in Grand Theft Auto, it is of a quality that makes it R18 - the degree of it, the intensity of it, the realism of it,” says Hastings. “When you shoot a body it reacts in a very human way. It’s not just stickmen falling over. It looks real.”
Parents that buy a game rated as 18 for a minor can face up to three months in jail or a $10,000 fine.
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May 5th, 2008 at 8:55 pm
God forbid that parents decide what their child do and see. Thank God the government is there to stop individual and parenting choices. I’m sure there are parents out there that have no idea what they are doing and they are called crappy parents. As a parent myself, take your head out of your ass and do your parenting job before the government takes all your rights from you.
May 6th, 2008 at 6:25 am
yeah right