boo boo

Instead of censoring the internet we should just ban all the stupid people from using it.

Then again AOL and Youtube would go out of business if that happened.

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It's only knock n' knowall, but I like it

http://www.last.fm/user/kingboobs

Neapolitan

In all fairness, Youtube does provide videos of live performances of bands you might not see otherwise - and not to mention official music videos before they get banned. So Youtube does have some value to it - musicwise.

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Scarlett O'Hara

Ok 1) Australian people can access alcohol and drugs easily; 2) parents allow 18+ games in their house; 3) it's up to the parents to censor the internet; 4) freedom of speech; 5) it's not suppsed to be a communist country; 6) New Zealand is cooler

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Astronomer

1) What do drugs and alcohol have to do with anything on this topic?!

2) Actually Australia doesn't even sell 18+ games on the shelves... that's the whole point of the debate surrounding the issue.

3) Agreed.

4) Agreed.

5) Agreed.

6) Definitely agreed.

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Scarlett O'Hara

I'm drunk. I am making up assumtions. Glad you agree on the rset though!

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Zarko

Australia>>>>>>>>Boring New Zealand. Nice to visit NZ, not much else.

The funny thing in relation to R games, is that half the time, games that are 18+ in America are down to 15+ in Australia with minimal changes. So its actually allowing a greater proportion of kids to view inappropriate material at a younger age.

Freebase Dali

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Burning Down

OMG! Really? That I did not know

lucifer_sam

one cannot be an effective troll and consider relevancy when making idiotic posts.

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Neapolitan

Sam said "they did the same thing in 1980s America," I don't know, I am trying to think if they had Internet censorship in the 80's, In all honesty I don't know if they did the same thing happened in America in the 80's. I remember watching a VH1 or maybe it was a History Channel documentary about either the computer or the internet and they said when they first had internet at colleges and/or universities, computer geeks used to send porn to each other but the only problem was their computer was like only 2K bite of memory so the picture was made up of text characters like "X's" and "O's" And I was wondering like if the professors at the colleges and/or universities got hold of what they were doing then they might of tried to put a stop to it - aka censorship. It was a documentary I vaguely remember and I forgot what decade, it could had been the 80's.

I know of a couple of similar stories of censorship. Like I was watching how they made the album by The Doors and the story goes like the producer on the Ed Sullivan show didn't want Jim Morrison to say "Baby we can't much higher" He wanted Jim to sing "Baby we can't get much better you dig." But Jim Morrison sang it anyway, much ot the chagrin of the Ed Sullivan Show producer. And then after the show the producer yelled at The Doors saying they would never ever do the Ed Sullivan show again and then Jim Morrison retorted "Hey Man, I just did the Ed Sullivan Show."

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