Oh, grow up. *
edited 19th Apr '11 3:07:49 PM by AllanAssiduity
When can we do a Colony Drop on Sydney again?
"Allah may guide their bullets, but Jesus helps those who aim down the sights."I do agree, sort of, with what was said in the beginning of that article - nudity or violence should not be treated differently by classification systems depending on 'artistic merit'. That's a very nebulous thing to be classifying things based on.
But really, concerns of pedophilia are getting ridiculous. If something's obviously drawn/taken with sexual undertones fair enough, but simple child nudity isn't pedophilia. Children are naked all the time.
Be not afraid...Maturity ratings don't get classified on artistic merit, reviews do.
That said, this is extreme. I wish "parent your fucking kids" would be sufficient, but obviously that's not the case — but this isn't a good idea either.
edited 19th Apr '11 3:49:47 PM by Pykrete
Oh god I'll have being trying to find this[1]◊ painting for years ever since I saw it on a school trip.
It sort of scared itself onto my psyche.
edited 19th Apr '11 3:51:06 PM by joeyjojo
hashtagsarestupidJust goes to show that dictatorships aren't the only ones with overly-heavy censorship.
The "parent your kids" line is a good one in theory, yes, but it's really not possible to be privy to each and every single thing a child does. Content ratings are a decent way to get around this.
edited 20th Apr '11 12:16:51 PM by Wicked223
You can't even write racist abuse in excrement on somebody's car without the politically correct brigade jumping down your throat!If parents would've actually paid attention to them. Also, I'd've expected a thread such as this to have Cluster F-Bomb attacks in multiple instances per post. Why not?
Videogames do not make you a worse person... Than you already are."Children are naked all the time."
Yeah, will they be censoring the cute family photos of Jimmy falling asleep on the toilet when he was 2?
If I'm asking for advice on a story idea, don't tell me it can't be done.^ No. They'll just send the party van to that person's house and arrest them for possession of child porn.
It happened once here in the States but the judge saw right through the prosecution saying basically "do you not have kids?" and tossed the case right out.
"Allah may guide their bullets, but Jesus helps those who aim down the sights."I am so fucking sick of false equivalences, and the implication that whatever the speaker is proposing is the reasonable, moderate choice. >:(
How about this: what Gavin claims to be the extremist positions, are actually correct. It would, in fact, be government intrusion, and things that he finds icky often do have artistic merit. If anything is extremist, it's saying that censorship should be increased.
edited 21st Apr '11 8:17:54 AM by EnglishIvy
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/warning-this-art-debate-may-contain-adult-themes-20110417-1djv8.html
Seriously, if this goes ahead even the book I am attempting to edit now will have to be classified under categories it was never meant to fit into, and any photographs I take for my Photomedia class will have to be classified as well.
That said, I don't think these Christian lobbyists can really afford to battle the publicity they'd accidentally give any artist who gives them the middle finger in their work in any medium.
What do you think about this bastard of a policy down under? I hope it doesn't pass, our classification system's bat-shit crazy enough as it is.
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