Monday, January 25, 2010

My vote on game censorship.

I've been meaning to do this for a while now, but I've wanted to dedicate a good few hours to it, and these days in my adult and criminal life I struggle to find the time to link a few good hours together. So alternately, I'll try getting my thoughts together over a few sittings, so forgive if it gets a little long and disjointed.

I'm unsure exactly where to start this, so I'm going to go with the central thought that runs through every argument I come across: Michael Atkinson is allowing children to participate in adult content. Regardless of what he says, his actions prove vastly different in the real world outside of his politics. He's quite happy to talk political rhetoric about his constituents, how the OFLC has failed to hold up its own regulations and that the vested groups behind the R18+ rating are solely economically interested in the debate. He admits to the censorship label of his politics, and talks quite candidly about his own children playing the video games he disagrees with.

(Didn't realise this got so long. Follow the cut for the rest!)