Thats another thing I find "amusing" about all this - many of the games that would have gone under a R18+ classification (based on doing so everywhere else) instead were released UNCHANGED as M15+.

One of the criticisms made against the publicized "tell us if you want this" survey was that the results were swayed by an interested party (gamers). Gee, really, you ask people if people want something, and the people who want it are the ones who answer? And they got a LOT of answers, meaning there are a LOT of interested gamers. But the results were effectively thrown out, on claims of bias. Bias towards the answer the people running the survey didn't want, I say.

I was going to post this. My daughter (6) loves nothing more then to play Minecraft with me - which means telling me what to do constantly. Her favorite activity seems to be kiting creepers.

She hasn't got the coordination/experience to manage to play herself - she much prefers to tell me what to do. It must be a girl thing.

This is the technology the Australian Coalition party is suggesting is equivalent/good enough compared to FTTH. If this is the first live deployment of it, I would want to know distances involved to get these speeds, and how many bonded pairs are required - and if these pairs are installed in Australian DOCSIS setups.

Also, no-one seems to feel that a symmetrical connection is valuable, focus is on download speed and upload speed a footnote. As a business operator with off-site backups, as well as transferring raw video content to be processed in other offices, upload speed is critical to me.

Came here for this, leaving satisfied. Thank you.

Ah, the same play book as being used in Australia.

I don't think so. There were only something like 5 games refused rating, requiring a resubmit. Thats part of the argument used to say there's no need for a R18.

Wish I could find the article!

The thing that is most foolish about this no-R18+ stance is it causes games to be rated M15 that are rated higher everywhere else.

In the summary, they list AvP as one, but this is an example. I can't find the article now, but apparently there have been 50 games in the last 3 years or so that are released M15 here and are R18+ (or R17, depending on country) elsewhere.

No R18+ rating puts MORE violence in the hands of children (specifically teens) under the guise of being M15.

The original report from the trial, mentioned in the summary, said this very thing. Yet the government called it a glorious success and rushed through decisions to implement it.

Well played sir, well played indeed.

I agree. Neither is OpenCiv.

That said, there are a LOT of open source games that are terrible. But I wonder how many concept pitch games there are that we never see, that are terrible?

Imagine is exactly right, because the blacklist will be secret. The explanation being that having a list of RC material available will encourage people to view it... except they won't be able to...

Incidentally, for the people who think this filter is about blocking child porn, consider this: Child porn is illegal, and is the jurisdiction of the federal police. The blacklist will not be maintained by the police, and any ILLEGAL content is to be submitted to the police. The RC filter list is only for UNDESIRABLE content, content that is NOT illegal.

Not least because having all YouTube traffic go through a proxy/filter would dramatically up the hardware requirements.

Possibly because the law didn't say what the Attorney General said it did.

http://www.efa.org.au/2010/02/02/sa-electoral-amendments-and-anonymity-online/

From the article:

That is a larger percentage then I expected. I wonder if the statistics were collected by asking people if they used it, and the percentages were more the amount of people who knew they should be.