New Zealand Bans Violent Video Game
from the you-just-made-it-much-more-popular dept
In one single action, New Zealand's "Chief Censor" has just given Rockstar Game's Manhunt more publicity than they probably could have bought. New Zealand is completely banning the game for being too violent. I don't know anything about the game, and it certainly doesn't sound like anything I'd want to play. If New Zealand wants to ban it, that's their issue. My question, though, if the game is so dangerous that no one should dare be allowed to view it, how come the folks at the Censor's office haven't gone crazy shooting up the world? What makes them so special that they can view the game, realize it's "just a game" and continue acting in a civilized way in the real world? How come they think that everyone else in the country doesn't have that ability?
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that's silly
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I agree with Mike..
A Government should create rules for us to live by, not stop us from viewing things that only a small part of the populace does not like seeing (I.E. the Government Officials).
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.nz goverment vs. the rest of the world
The New Zealand government has a long history of making silly decisions with repsect to the Internet.
The main difference between .nz government and everywhere else is that their list of silly decisions is far smaller.
...which proves a major conjecture of mine: smaller government does not necessarily mean better government; it just means less bad government (which pretty much obvious by inspeciton).
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I know what I want for Xmas
With the extra media coverage I can see the Aussie distributor doubled up & crying from laugter as he salutes the NZ govt over a cold beer at the Xmas company barbie (barbecue).
They have only successfully laid down a challenge for kids to get a copy. For no other reason but for bragging rights, it's available in Aussie so every NZer has a friend, aunt, cousin or brother living there and guess what they want for Xmas.
Why not let the mums and dads sort this out with the kids, and if you old enough to use a condom then you probable can work it out yourself.
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Apparently this one _was_ simply distasteful
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