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Adults deserve to be entitled to see what they want to see right? It's even written in documentation that Australians should be able to view what ever media they like to. But why make a law to prevent them from legally obtaining said material all because it's considered too graphical for distribution in Australia? That's just un-'straylian if you ask me.
so yeah, Australia's 'refused classification' does treat us grown adults like kids, but I don't blame them. Imagine how strong the fight would be for a politician if they proposed the idea of making the refused classification less harsh in judgment and allow for more overrated films, games, etc. It wouldn't be a particularly easy political fight to win considering how politically correct of a country we are. However, disregarding that I still believe that the (RC) treats adults like kids even more so. In order for us to obtain a game that has been refused classification, (such as Hotline Miami 2 for example) we would have to obtain it legally via pirating because of the laws preventing it from being distributed in Australia. Which is just stupid and rather risky as pirated games generally potentially contain malware and viruses within them and possibly be more harming than it would be for the game to be released within Australia and have "people potentially become more violent." as i've talked over before, video games don't cause violence. Additionally damaging the developer as they get no revenue from piracy. But this doesn't entirely mean censorship isn't a bad thing, some games can be over the top at times and end up not being any of a better game than it could be without said graphic images. But the current guidelines for Australia's refused classification is just extremely mellow and doesn't allow for adults to play the games that they want. Jake Carter - 1/09/2017 Comments are closed.
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