Western Australian commitee wants R18+ video games banned in the state

WagnerPaiva said:

Hum, interesting. I was thinking the same: it is pretty useless to regulate this because of the internet. 

Yeah, but Conroy was trying to implement a mandatory ISP filter that would monitor all traffic into the country and block any blacklisted sites - a list which, as far as I can tell, was determined behind closed doors with no accountability.  As you can imagine, this was pretty unpopular with... well... pretty much everyone.  Not only was it going to slow down Australia's already pathetic internet, but when the blacklist was leaked, it was revealed that there was a ton of perfectly legal stuff on it and, in fact, most of the list had nothing to do with the reasons that Conroy was using to justify the filter.

In the end, it was just kind of quietly abandoned.  It was never popular to begin with and, to be honest, I don't really understand why they bothered to drag it out for as long as they did.  They had to know it would never get the necessary support to go through.  Or, at least, you'd think they would.  But then, Conroy never did strike me as the brightest guy in the world...

 

 

WagnerPaiva said:

To be honest, living in Australia sounds pretty cool to me man.

It wouldn't be so bad if our internet wasn't still in the dark ages.  Or maybe it's just me.  I don't know.  I'm sure the capital cities and whatnot have good internet but I certainly don't.  I guess this is part of the reason I'm less enthusiastic than some about the whole "digital future" thing.  I couldn't download a AAA game if I wanted to.  And then I hear people talking about how we'll all be streaming everything in a few years.  Uh... yeah... I can guarantee you that I won't be.

Certainly not if our government has anything to say about it.  At least we had a fibre rollout happening at one point, even if the progress map did say that my area was still years away from construction.  But since the change of government, I can't seem to find any kind of a projection on my area.  All it says now is that it's not available where I live.  I don't know if the rollout has been scaled back, or maybe axed altogether.  Maybe some of the other Aussies on here know.

Er... anyway... that was kind of a mini rant.  Sorry about that.  This kind of thing does tend to get on my nerves.