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[–] dan@upvote.au 28 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

There's a few groups like this in Australia, unfortunately.

Australia didn't even have an R18+ rating for games until 2013 (R18+ is similar to AO or NC-17 in the USA). Before then, all games with a higher rating than MA15+ were illegal in Australia. Many games had an Australia-specific version with blood/gore reduced, some things edited out, etc. to reduce the rating. The original release of GTA4 in Australia was heavily censored.

[–] FerretyFever0@fedia.io 29 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Oml, trying to ban Eminem and Snoop Dogg from Australia? Really? Fuck did Eminem actually do in the last 15 years? Snoop, never really listened to him, can't think of anything he did (in relation to women). They managed to stop Tyler, the Creator from touring in 2015? They're doing the dumbest shit. Going after sexualization of women isn't going to help any actual problems. Pathetic.

[–] real_squids@sopuli.xyz 27 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Judging from their description ("pro-life feminists") I bet they're using objectification as a cover to push their regressive ideals. When it comes to rap there's a disproportionate amount of hate towards it from these people, could be as simple as that.

[–] FerretyFever0@fedia.io 14 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Of course. I've listened to quite a bit of Eminem, more than is reasonable. There's like 5 songs that I'd say were actually that crazy, mostly about his wife, and mostly 20+ years ago. I'd say it's probably something to do with racism, actually hating rap usually does.

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[–] MadnessForTsar@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago

Does that group also the same one who defending the release of "cuties" before?

[–] omniman@piefed.zip 7 points 5 days ago (2 children)

fucking fuck fuck fuckers , if they wanted to ban then they should have contacted to steme why payment providers bruh

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[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 21 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

The best part is that for the article Valve supplied a picture of Blue Scout standing speechless in front of pornographic pictures of his mom, as the punch line of one of the best "your mom" jokes of all time.

[–] ech@lemmy.ca 16 points 6 days ago

Anyone have a guess as to why these companies don't just cut off the country being used to spearhead these attempts? Like, half the popular games are blocked already. And setting this precedent will likely lead to further fuckery in the future. Is Australlia really that profitable that it's worth the current and future hassle?

[–] Cocopanda@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago

Really goes to show people. It doesn’t matter the religion. They all are bullshit machines for people to act superior than others. Fuck these twat waffles.

[–] Steve@startrek.website 14 points 6 days ago
[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days ago

That’s totally not a thing TERFs would say.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 13 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Man, what the hell did they have against Detroit: Become Human? 🤨

[–] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

It's got a kid robot in it that's abused. Not sexually afaik. But it's definitely not pornographic, it's literally the driving force of one of the plotlines and causes an android to rebel and kill it's owner - the abuser.

Let me repeat: the game is literally so anti-child-abuse - it makes the plot happen.

This whole thing is so stupid. You give these types of people an inch they take a mile.

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