Tired of thinking of the children
There is something deeply rotten in the heads of
Australians at the moment. The “fair go” spirit which built the place is being lost
as the country cries out for censorship and protection from every fear under
the sun.
Now it is starting to look like there is a backlash
against those normally religious minorities which have been setting the agenda
on censorship. More than 67,000 Australians have signed a petition
backing an R18+ rating for video games. The Herald Sun reports the response to the petition, by
national games retailer Game, has been so large after just one month it has
extended the deadline by two weeks.
Game managing director Robert Lukic said he had not
expected the volume of support. The petition will increase pressure on
attorneys-general,
who are meeting on May 7 to consider introducing an adult games
classification. Because Australia does not have an R rating on games it
has lead to a fair number being banned.
Conservatives claim an R-rating would open the
floodgates to ultra-violent games that could find their way to children and
everyone knows that you must wrap children in bubble wrap to protect them from
the outside world.