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New R Rated Games Category Vote of No Confidence in Senate Committee |
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Written by fiona patten
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Saturday, 23 July 2011 13:20 |
The in-principle agreement taken by Australia’s Censorship Ministers yesterday to create a new R rated category for computer games was a vote of no confidence in the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee that only last week suggested a major tightening of censorship laws in Australia, including banning the X classification at a federal level. Sex Party President Fiona Patten said that it was difficult to see how the introduction of an R rating for computer games would not lead to legalising X rated films in the states and bringing Australia into line with other western democracies.
“Under the new draft guidelines, high level depictions of sexual activity will be allowed as long as they are simulated and not real, she said. “The vast majority of computer games are simulated and do not use ‘real’ or ‘actual’ footage from films or still images but the levels of fantasy and imagination are often way above what would normally be in an X rated film”.
The Apple dictionary definitions of ‘simulated’ are ‘reproduced by simulation’ and ‘not genuine’. Synonyms include ‘replicated’, ‘pretend’, ‘virtual’, ‘cyber-‘ and ‘computer-generated’. These definitions all clearly define the new R18+ computer games guidelines.
“If ‘simulated’ depictions of high level sexual activity could soon be legal in computer games, the government should consider amalgamating the two upper adult categories of R and X”, she said. “Simulated sexual depictions of penetrative intercourse are extremely real these days and with the use of enhanced CGI, Fractal Geometry and other simulated design programs, the differences between R and X will be merely academic and of little consequence to the majority of users of the two categories.”
She said that in the online environment, the difference between R and X ratings meant nothing as both of them required adult verification for access.
“Already adult actors are making their own erotic computer games to go alongside their films. It is completely insane to require that the simulated depiction be rated differently from the real one when they will look almost identical”.
Fiona Patten: 0413 734 613
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