AU Classification Board To Censor Mobile Apps 129
bennyboy64 writes "The Australian Classification Board is seeking to censor mobile phone applications under its National Classification Scheme. 'I recently wrote to the minister [Minister McDonald] regarding my concern that some so-called mobile phone applications, which can be purchased online or either downloaded to mobile phones or played online via mobile phone access, are not being submitted to the board for classification,' Australia's Classification Board director Donald McDonald told a Senate Estimates committee. I wonder if they know that there are over 80,000 applications on the iPhone platform alone?"
I was going to take issue with the word "censor" (Score:5, Funny)
Then I RTFA:
Well, how charmingly honest of them. In a more sophisticated regime, that would be "Minister for the Protection of Cute Children's Precious, Precious Innocence."
Proposed Categories (Score:5, Funny)
No need to worry yet. Perhaps the categories will be
1. Boobies
2. Extra Boobies
3. Mediocre girl-girl
4. Wicked Awesome girl-girl
5. Why would you pay 99 cents for that boring thing, mate?
Re:I'll get right on that (Score:1, Funny)
"stick their fingers in the dyke"
Best. Analogy. Ever.
Re:I'll get right on that (Score:3, Funny)
Not sure Penny Wong is available for that.
Re:Go censorship! (Score:3, Funny)
a few isolated but popular (newsworthy) apps which have the potential to be politically embarrassing.
AbiMap - tracks troop and train movements so users can see where the Aborigines are being exported for "resettlement"
Conroy - "Censor it! Censor it now!"
UniformedThug- "Yes sir!"
Conroy - "And terminate the programmer of this app with extreme prejudice."
Re:the Commonwealth Censorship Ministery (Score:3, Funny)
"Australians have access to games that I HAVEN'T APPROVED OF! This is absolutely intolerable!"
Re:like hell it isn't (Score:2, Funny)