All censoring does is make people want to have what is denied them even more, and they will go to extraordinary lengths to obtian it. This is true for all things.
Poll: Censorship?
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Example of why it's stupid, playing a game when a character blows his head off. In the uncensored version he uses a gun, in the censored version he creates an energy ball ], Dragonball Z style and uses it on himself. My reaction was, "what's the freaking point," there were guns in the game all over the place and they show his headless body in both versions. So, WTF?
Censorship is an all or nothing kind of deal. If they are allowed to censor something, then it's only a matter of time before they find a reason to censor something else... and then something else... and something else... until everything must be PC drivel. It's a horrible cycle that should never be started, in my opinion.
Now, my parents aren't entirely against me buying rated 18 things. Things like games are fine because it normally means that there is just a lot of blood and gore. They would be against anything with full frontal sex/ nudity but swearing, drugs, violence and other stuff is kind of alright with them.Wadders said:
I guess that the idea of censorship and age certificates is one with good intentions but as you said, anyone could potentially view these things through other ways i.e. older siblings or friends.
If age certificates and censorship are truly going to work and not be a waste, the higher-up people would have to go to more extremes like looking into our lives more. But then people would complain.
Right now, age certificates and censorship aren't doing enough. I guess what I'm trying to say is that they have the two options of either abolishing them or up-holding them much more harshly in order to make them of any real use. Of course though, I'm leaning towards the abolishing idea more as it is just more practical.
Sorry for blabbing on for so long.
This was always my opinion too. My other opinion was that by censoring it, it is more likely to make people curious about it. A black box is the best billboard, metaphorically speaking.j0z said:
That aside, I find it very interesting that the second most chosen option is "censorship must die." If that is not proof that censorship is not working.
Censorship = shit.
Plain and simple that's how I see it. Saying "Oh, preserve the innocence of the childrens!" is a flawed argument because they'll end up getting curious about it and finding it anyway. This is the same argument used in many other areas: "If you make it illegal, kids will try it because breaking the rules is 'cool'(within obvious limits)."
Honestly, yes, there is a time and a place for everything, but on TV, Radio, Games, et cetera, I'll stand up and say, loud and proud, "Fuck you."
Exception: There are some people who don't know how to curse properly. You know who I'm talking about, the people who use "fuck" like it was a form of punctuation. These people need to have a dictionary/thesaurus combo thrown at them and be locked away until they can use the Engrish properly.
Plain and simple that's how I see it. Saying "Oh, preserve the innocence of the childrens!" is a flawed argument because they'll end up getting curious about it and finding it anyway. This is the same argument used in many other areas: "If you make it illegal, kids will try it because breaking the rules is 'cool'(within obvious limits)."
Honestly, yes, there is a time and a place for everything, but on TV, Radio, Games, et cetera, I'll stand up and say, loud and proud, "Fuck you."
Exception: There are some people who don't know how to curse properly. You know who I'm talking about, the people who use "fuck" like it was a form of punctuation. These people need to have a dictionary/thesaurus combo thrown at them and be locked away until they can use the Engrish properly.
Censorship can be used for good things (i.e. keeping sex and violence out of kids shows) but in general it's a bloody nuisance and used for retarded reasons.
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Exactly and pretty much every game I've seen is over-rated, for lack of a better word. I'm not legally old enough to own anything above a 12 but close to all of my games are 15's or higher. Also in Britain Mass Effect is a 12, in America I hear it's rated M? That is the pinnacle. Most games that are rated 15 are done so because or swearing and violence, what they fail to realise that most kids are swearing out of their arses by the time they're 11 and violence has no effect on us, must be something to do with the fact that we realise that it's a game, unlike most campaigners against it.goatzilla8463 said:
Anyone else think that their minds are probably more "susceptible to be tainted the evil of video games" than most children?
I think part of the problem is, parents aren't doing enough.Dory16 said:
When little Johnny brings home a new M rated game he saw advertised on TV, where the commercials didn't make it look like it was that violent of a game, and plays it for a while then goes out and does something stupid the parents will blame the game store or the company who produced it. They don't always want to have to pay attention to what their kids are playing or buying, and that is when laws will be updated and changed.
Censorship is only useful in some places.
You can't stop children seeing or hearing this you don't want them to. If you wanted to do that, you would have to censor school, books, film, music, games, work, life... You just can't win when you want to stop children from seeing things you don't want them too.
You can't stop children seeing or hearing this you don't want them to. If you wanted to do that, you would have to censor school, books, film, music, games, work, life... You just can't win when you want to stop children from seeing things you don't want them too.
