Sunday 22 December 2002

Is this country screwed? You bet it is...

AUSTRALIA'S incoherent censorship ratings system will be exposed in coming months with the release of a number of controversial videogames.

The Playstation 2 game BMX XXX will be released on January 16 with an MA rating minus its major selling point - a topless female BMX rider.

Yet the violent game Mortal Kombat Deadly Alliance, in which players can pull skeletons from bodies, will be released with the same MA15+ rating.

According to the Office of Film and Literature Classification, a computer-generated nipple is viewed as more offensive than the sight of violent death or excessive blood.

What the hell is the problem with these people? To paraphrase those union bastards, Ban One - Ban All.

Or even better, ban nothing.

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