Source : Inquirer
AUSTRALIAN censors have banned a game not because it contains sex and violence, but because they fear that it will encourage kids to spray paint graffiti.
Oz is the only place in the known universe to ban the game Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure, which was designed by US fashion designer Marc Ecko.
Ironically the game has players battling the authorities to overthrow corrupt officials using only street fighting skills and graffiti.
Apparently it was not the violence which banned the game, but fears from Aussie local councils about the graffiti aspects.
Writing to the Sydney Morning Herald, Ecko said he was extremely disappointed in the Australian Government Classification Review Board’s move to ban the video game. Ecko, who was a graffiti artist, when he was a young thing, pointed out that every cyber graffiti drawn in the game, did not pop up in the street.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg tried to have a graffiti-themed launch party for the game banned claiming that it would encourage vandalism. However Bloomberg was told off by a Manhattan federal court Judge Jed Rakoff for acting in violation of Ecko’s first amendment rights.
Of course Australia does not have first amendment rights, it still has a Queen. Like Scotland.
AUSTRALIAN censors have banned a game not because it contains sex and violence, but because they fear that it will encourage kids to spray paint graffiti.
Oz is the only place in the known universe to ban the game Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure, which was designed by US fashion designer Marc Ecko.
Ironically the game has players battling the authorities to overthrow corrupt officials using only street fighting skills and graffiti.
Apparently it was not the violence which banned the game, but fears from Aussie local councils about the graffiti aspects.
Writing to the Sydney Morning Herald, Ecko said he was extremely disappointed in the Australian Government Classification Review Board’s move to ban the video game. Ecko, who was a graffiti artist, when he was a young thing, pointed out that every cyber graffiti drawn in the game, did not pop up in the street.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg tried to have a graffiti-themed launch party for the game banned claiming that it would encourage vandalism. However Bloomberg was told off by a Manhattan federal court Judge Jed Rakoff for acting in violation of Ecko’s first amendment rights.
Of course Australia does not have first amendment rights, it still has a Queen. Like Scotland.