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Rpruett on 12 May 2013
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curl-6 said:
Rpruett said:
curl-6 said:
Dunno if Americans are vastly psychologically/culturally different, but since strict gun control was introduced here in Australia in 1996, (including a ban on semi-auto rifles and shotguns, and restrictive ownership and licensing rules) we haven't had a single mass shooting. Not one, in 17 years. (In the 18 years before the legislation, we had 13 mass shootings, about one every 15 months)


That's fine and good, but Austrailia lives under a complete nanny state.   The banning of video games and forms of entertainment **for your own good**  rivals that of the UAE and Communist China.   We may never agree on this point, but I believe that this censorship is crazy and I think a healthy percentage of Americans would fall in line with that.

I don't want some politician or person in a position of power to decide, what I can and cannot see.  How is that anybodies right?  

It's not even in the same league as UAE or Communist China. I legally can walk down the street and buy God of War 3 or Hitman Absolution, or walk into Club X and buy a X-rated porno if I want to.

Could it be better? Yeah. But UAE and China are a world away. For instance, here I can write "Julia Gillard  (Our PM) is the devil" online and not worry about the cops banging down my door and sending me to a forced labor camp.

Censorship isn't entirely bad; shouldn't things like child pornography or a filmed rape be suppressed?

I disagree with it as a whole.  The problem is always  where does it stop and who decides when enough is enough?  Not you. Not your friends.  Some grey beard in a position higher than you.  This type of control always increases and never decreases.  That's the problem.   It then delves into the level of absurdity that protects nobody.

For example  : " Starting in January 2010, customs officials have been directed by Australian federal government censors to confiscate any porn depicting female ejaculation. Such content has been deemed to be "golden showers" (an act of urinating on one's partner). However Fionna Patten, a spokesman for the Australian Sex Party has stated, "Female ejaculation has now been described in scientific literature as being as real as male ejaculation and women's ejaculate is as different from urine, as men's is."[73]"

While I can agree,  Child pornography and/or filmed rape should be stopped, isn't there already laws in place for entities like that?   Why then is there any need for more censorship,  simply enforcement of existing laws.  Why the need for additional censorship and 'protection'.   It's an ever-increasing version of a nanny state.

I think that would quantify a major difference with the United States and the general publics viewpoint (Which has already far too much censorship for my tastes).