this is insane! excerpt:
The Classification Review Board yesterday refused to classify the game, Marc Ecko’s Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure, meaning it cannot be sold, demonstrated, hired or imported.
The decision was endorsed last night by the Federal Attorney-General, Philip Ruddock, who had asked the board to review of the game’s MA15+ classification after local councils and state governments voiced concerns that the game would promote graffiti.
Australia is the only country in the world to ban the game.
This censorship is getting out of hand, I’m going to move somewhere more relaxed like China or something.
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“Set in a city of the future, the game features a world where freedom of expression is suppressed by a tyrannical city government.”
Thats just too brilliant for words!
This is just another in a recent line of crackdowns on grafitti.
There were recent raids on Next Level and 567 King St where ‘obscene publications and DVD’ were confiscated for ‘classification’.
Obscene?
They were grafitti mags and DVDs.
Some of them depicted ‘illegal’ pieces being done. Others were the sort of graf coffee table thing you might buy at a posh art bookstore.
But the classification laws were used as a front to crack down on grafitti.
Next Level has had some of the stock returned. They had 25% of their stock seized and had to lay off staff for a few weeks as a result.
Melbourne apparently has got even worse in the lead up to the Commonwealth Games. Apparently local hip hop magazines are being threatened for portraying ‘illegal acts’.
Welcome to Communist Australia. Im so glad that kids can continue to play “old fashioned” games where they shoot, stab and kill each other.