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Second Life banned in Australia

It was confirmed by Australian Minister for Censorship that online games such as Second Life is banned in the country. There was confirmation from Censorship Minister Stephen "Goebbels" Conroy and according to his spokesperson it was added "under the filtering plan, it will be extended to downloadable games, flash-based web games and sites which sell physical copies of games that do not meet the MA15+ standard." The MA15+ means restricted to those people ages 15 and above.

The Australian rating is different because it doesn't have R 18+ or rating for computer games. All games for adult are place in RC or Refused classification..

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edgeofblade - 169 days 3 hours ago

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Good to know if I ever get tired of freedom, I can go to this family values hell hole.

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Azures - 169 days 3 hours ago

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America, still the greatest country in the world.

Coming Soon: legalized pot

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kevnb - 168 days 17 hours ago

3.1 - dont hold your breath

they wanted to legalize pot here in canada, but the americans made such a big stink about it that its only been decriminalized.

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Azures - 168 days 4 hours ago

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decriminalized is good enough.

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karan8624 - 169 days 3 hours ago

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I would hate to live there, they censor EVERYTHING.

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Leathersoup - 169 days 3 hours ago

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They managed to ban it just in time! One second later and the Australian people might just start thinking for themselves....

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sorceror171 - 169 days 3 hours ago

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Can anyone explain to me why Australians put up with this crap? "The function of laws to protect children cannot be to force adults to act like them."

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TheBand1t - 169 days 2 hours ago

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Doesn't a Minister of Censorship in a Democratic nation seem...undemocratic?

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cheameup - 168 days 19 hours ago

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there is no minister for censorship here in australia. dont believe all you read on the net

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lordkemo - 169 days ago

8 - I thought i was reading an article on china...

I mean seriously. Thats some scary stuff. If i were to live there i'd protest or something. I agree with band1t... it seems very undemocratic.

Up next for sensorship... anything were someone dies or has mean or angry feelings for someone.

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dchalfont - 168 days 20 hours ago

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"Up next for sensorship... anything were someone dies or has mean or angry feelings for someone. "

i think your talking about the u.s there buddy, and you spelled censorship wrong you ignorant american

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lordkemo - 168 days 6 hours ago

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Admittedly I did spell “censorship” wrong. But I don’t have to worry about my government saying what I can and can’t play because a 15 year old can’t play it. I guess me misspelling a word makes me arrogant, but what I don’t understand is why are you so angry about it? I was more making fun of the fact that your whole country is web filtered as tight as some communist countries. Well good luck.

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electricshadow - 169 days ago

9 - So,

why doesn't Australia have an equivalent to the "Mature 17+" rating like the E.S.R.B. has?

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dan_chan89 - 169 days ago

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don't really wanna play that, but god i hate my country...

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bjornbear - 169 days ago

10.1 - Don't hate your country man, hate those who run it.

Peace =)

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bjornbear - 169 days ago

11 - Wow...they actually BANNED Second Life?

Wow...wow....thats lame =P Very sad =/ what next? PS Home? MSN? N4G?!?! =O

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dogmeat eater - 168 days 21 hours ago

12 - wow Australia bans everything!

You Australians should start to b!tch and complain about this crap! 2nd life is nothing special. But its getting quite ridiculous. Like WTF Australia?! It sounds like a catholic priest is running Australia. Quite lame.

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whatis - 168 days 21 hours ago

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Yeah we focus on the real issues here in Australia.

Just recently in my state, they spent 10 million to host another referendum on whether or not to introduce daylight savings.

Of course daylight savings is nothing more than an annoyance and is completely useless in a country with weather like ours, which is what I thought until I heard their other main selling point of the thing which is apparently: "to get our times in sync with the other half of Australia that already has daylight savings!".

It was voted down for the forth time.. But now we can get back to the real business of appearing on talk shows, commenting on pop culture stories and censoring the internet for the entire country.

I love that their reasoning behind us wanting/needing (lol wanting) an isp level internet filter; the fact that nobody was downloading their free-to-install one that they spent huge $$$ to create last year.

http://nocleanfeed.com/lear...

http://www.somebodythinkoft...

http://www.somebodythinkoft...

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dchalfont - 168 days 20 hours ago

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you people don't know what your talking about, while it does suck and is lame that they censored this, we have far more freedom's than the u.s, "patriot act", none of that, no one i going to "investigate" me based on nothing but will, i can say that i want to kil the prime minister, just a few examples, the Australian government is immature when it comes to games, but the u.s government is irresponsible with alot of their laws

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dogmeat eater - 168 days 20 hours ago

14.1 - Australias freedom is sub par

they banned guns. Mainly because they would be afraid of a revolution. Sorry dude, Australia doesn't have the same freedom here. Just saying.

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dchalfont - 168 days 19 hours ago

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everyone owning guns is not a freedom you idiot, how many death's a year do you think occur because of the "innocent people" that own them, all of australia is very happy (and safe) because of gun laws, infact every other country in the world is much safer for them....only in a america would a man trying to put an antenna cable through his wall would use a gun (true story) and the bullet went through the wall and killed his wife, WE ARE FREE TO BE THE DUMBEST COUNTRY ON EARTH, GOD BLESS AMERICA!!, CAN I GET AN AMEN

what do you mean because "they were afraid of revolution, what a stupid thing to say, what revolution?, there's no need for one, we have far more freedoms than the u.s, your so ignorant though because your told how free you are, people don't go on about freedom of speech here like they do in the u.s, because it's always been that way, we don't need to have it legislated

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whatis - 168 days 17 hours ago

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Australians don't have constitutional rights because the country doesn't have a constitution.

The government has too much power and just because we haven't seen a full on abuse of it yet doesn't mean they can't/won't. Watch carefully.

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danielle007 - 168 days 19 hours ago

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My mother plays Second Life. I wish someone would ban it over here... But enough about my family troubles.

Anyways, that's shady business over in Australia. Overcharging and now unnecessary bannings.

Buuuuuut... You have overly pretty beaches.. and crocodiles. Go outside, don't waste time on Second Life.. Just live your first one?

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MRMagoo123 - 168 days 17 hours ago

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Roooaw your purdy

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dogmeat eater - 168 days 19 hours ago

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ok then Steve Irwin. You keep on hating while your countries leaders put safety locks on everything. Australia must be run by soccer moms that are afraid of the real world.

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ember_to_inferno - 168 days 18 hours ago

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its a fake story they got it from the sydney morning herald which got it from some forum. just read some of the comments posted on the site.

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MRMagoo123 - 168 days 17 hours ago

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who cares any way really "oh noes i cantz play emolife anymorz" the thing is pot is banned in Australia yet i had some yesterday lol.

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Abobo - 168 days 11 hours ago

18 - How are they going to enforce this

You don't need a boxed copy and the servers aren't in Australia, so will this be enforced. Twats

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kingtigar - 168 days 7 hours ago

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Did they ban runescape yet? Anyway...

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