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Australia: The Worst Country in the World - 02-10-2010
I don't know how many other Aussies there are here on the forum to discuss this with but ill just let everyone know how our once great country is going to hell.
1. Incoming Internet Filter
Our government is forcing upon us a mandatory filter at the ISP level to filter out certain content deemed inappropriate (By the Government and backed by minority groups), such as:
-Child Porn (I'm all for trying to block child porn, that is a good idea)
-Porn with women who have A Cup breasts... Its seems now that in Australia naked women with A Cup breasts are children... (They have banned it from mainstream/retail porn already...)
-Euthanasia Information...
-Drugs Information...
-Abortion Information...
-And soon You-tube... (We aren't sure whether they want to censor children or ?) What on earth should be censored from you-tube?
2. No 18+ games.
Not only this but we don't have an 18+ rating for video-games. There is 1 person standing in the way of it happening and he is backed by religious/minority groups. The argument he spews forth is that allowing 18+ games in means that younger kids will be able to get their hands on "Rape/Fetish/Horribly Gruesome games etc". Which obviously isn't the case. Its a whole "Think of the kids" situation, they don't have a legitimate/sane reason not to have an 18+ rating. Here in Australia currently when certain new release games come out, they get rated M15+ where as in the rest of the world they get an R18+ rating (Best case recently is the new AVP game, it was submitted to our ratings board and they denied it M15+, which means its banned. They told the company making it to edit it like they do to every other company. And the company said... No. Its an adult game, its not getting an edit. So now its got an M15+ rating with no edits)... Stupid right?
Our country is just falling apart. The people we vote in don't do what they promise. They follow their own agendas and that is all. Our government is taking away rights of the people that other major countries take for granted and there is nothing we can do. We used to go to war to protect peoples freedom and rights. But now we are having them taken away by our own leaders? Its the principal, it is not right. Our government is spitting on the memory of our people who fought for freedom in the past. If i had the opportunity to move to another country I would jump at it. I am not proud to be Australian any more...
Anyone feel free to comment or look up these things in more detail, i didn't want to go into any detail as I'd take up about 4million lines of text. I can promise you its just ridiculous
Australia: The Worst Country in the World - 02-10-2010
I don't know how many other Aussies there are here on the forum to discuss this with but ill just let everyone know how our once great country is going to hell.
1. Incoming Internet Filter
Our government is forcing upon us a mandatory filter at the ISP level to filter out certain content deemed inappropriate (By the Government and backed by minority groups), such as:
-Child Porn (I'm all for trying to block child porn, that is a good idea)
-Porn with women who have A Cup breasts... Its seems now that in Australia naked women with A Cup breasts are children... (They have banned it from mainstream/retail porn already...)
-Euthanasia Information...
-Drugs Information...
-Abortion Information...
-And soon You-tube... (We aren't sure whether they want to censor children or ?) What on earth should be censored from you-tube?
2. No 18+ games.
Not only this but we don't have an 18+ rating for video-games. There is 1 person standing in the way of it happening and he is backed by religious/minority groups. The argument he spews forth is that allowing 18+ games in means that younger kids will be able to get their hands on "Rape/Fetish/Horribly Gruesome games etc". Which obviously isn't the case. Its a whole "Think of the kids" situation, they don't have a legitimate/sane reason not to have an 18+ rating. Here in Australia currently when certain new release games come out, they get rated M15+ where as in the rest of the world they get an R18+ rating (Best case recently is the new AVP game, it was submitted to our ratings board and they denied it M15+, which means its banned. They told the company making it to edit it like they do to every other company. And the company said... No. Its an adult game, its not getting an edit. So now its got an M15+ rating with no edits)... Stupid right?
Our country is just falling apart. The people we vote in don't do what they promise. They follow their own agendas and that is all. Our government is taking away rights of the people that other major countries take for granted and there is nothing we can do. We used to go to war to protect peoples freedom and rights. But now we are having them taken away by our own leaders? Its the principal, it is not right. Our government is spitting on the memory of our people who fought for freedom in the past. If i had the opportunity to move to another country I would jump at it. I am not proud to be Australian any more...
Anyone feel free to comment or look up these things in more detail, i didn't want to go into any detail as I'd take up about 4million lines of text. I can promise you its just ridiculous
