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August 5th, 2008 @ 08:44
On an Australian TV show not too dissimilar to BBC’s Question Time (a program where the audience asks supposed experts and politicians topical questions), the panel was unanimous in its support for continued censorship of video games in the country. They all had a good laugh when the basic premise for Fallout 3 was explained to them and began to go down the GTA IV and the “won’t somebody think of the children” route.
See pompous, middle-aged, scaremongering busybodies tell an audience of adults what they can or can’t do in a democracy after the break.
By Mike Bowden
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August 5th, 2008 at 10:23 am
That’s a well balanced and informative argument. The presenter - who is unafraid to put his own point of view across, even though he is the chairman - puts out a straw man argument before the experts cite the non-existent research that ‘videogames harm the chilluns’ and ‘avatars can rape, so I don’t want to live in the same street’.
Quality broadcast journalism. Let’s hope the UK doesn’t follow the same lines in making the distinction between ‘interactivity’ (whatever that means) and the passivity of watching a film.
Only time will tell.
August 5th, 2008 at 11:19 am
Heh, makes the whole PEGI vs. BBFC thing look light years ahead of the Australian mess.
August 5th, 2008 at 12:14 pm
old, insanely so!
check gamespolitics more often
/smack