Comments on: Australian Sex Party will challenge filtering, what about R18+ games?

By: Australian Sex Party answers censorship questions - Somebody Think Of The Children

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 10:58:13 +0000

[...] raised concerns last week about whether the Australian Sex Party (ASP) would fight for an R18+ game classification, [...]

By: Heath

Heath — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:00:23 +0000

Heh! Great minds think alike. I just emailed them via their website advising them that they should expand their policies and campaign on a more broad, anti-censorship platform. I recommended the following two policies be added to their list:

16) We will support the implementation of a nationwide R18+ classification for computer games.

17) We will work against the excessive censorship of television, with a particular focus on content such as sex, nudity and course language. We will update the Commercial Television Industry Code of Practice to bring it into line with the code employed by the Classification Board and the Classification Review Board for the classification of films and computer games.

By: James

James — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:45:43 +0000

I don’t know why they mention it’s more censored than 30 years ago. We are already far more censored than 30 years ago now. I remember full frontal nudity on prime time television in the 70′s. You could hire xxx rate porn from video libraries in the 80′s, and that’s just related to the sex industry, not to mention all the other things taken from us in the last 30 years.
Fireworks? Why are they banned? Bon-fire nights? Drinking in the open? Maybe i’m just reminiscing, but times were certainly more liberal 30 years ago.

By: Tony Comstock

Tony Comstock — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:32:57 +0000

Time will tell, but the safe bet is that the Sex Party/Eros will be as provincial as folks like Alison Croggon/2020.

The sad fact is that minority opinion holders are all too eager to say “We’re *this*, not *that*. *This* should be legal, but we agree *that* is quite awful. Don’t worry. Making *this* legal, won’t mean *that* will become legal.”