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Atkinson to Appeal Modern Warfare 2 Rating

South Australian Attorney-General and the man stopping an R18+ rating for videogames in Australia, Michael Atkinson, despises the record breaking Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Atkinson has announced that he'll be challenging the OFLC's MA15+ rating, after the game has already been released and broken sales records worldwide.

"I’ll be appealing against that classification, I think it’s wrong. [It] doesn’t surprise me," Atkinson told ABC radio."The Classification Board in Australia does everything to try to get games in under the radar. But just because the system is not being applied properly, it does not mean that the principles of the system are wrong."

"What I want the Classification Board to do is to apply the guidelines properly. What I don’t want is the extremely violent, sexually depraved, drug use games in Australia at all. At the cinema, we can stop people under 18 going in to see R18+ rated movies. We can’t stop these games that are extremely violent and depraved from getting into the home or getting into the hands of children."

Atkinson went on to further question the ability of the OFLC to apply rating guidelines correctly. By contrast, the OFLC has a reputation for being rather conservative in the gaming community.

If the appeal does go ahead, however, Modern Warfare 2 will be pulled from Aussie shelves until it is resolved and cleared with an MA15+ rating again (which it almost definitely will be).

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Takayanagi
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I dislike this man
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FireStrife
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Takayanagi said: I dislike this man



Me too.
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nicnamenic
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What a ****ing loser. Grow up.

All in all it's just a bunch of ****ing pixels.
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Huddo
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doesnt he realise that once an r18 movie comes out on dvd and gets into the home that any child could play it?? also the ps3 has parental control to stop kids playing these games. the systems are there this guy just doesnt understand how to use them and is scared so he prevents others from using them
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hijakkk
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Prick = atkinson
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skua
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As if anyone would send there copies back in if it were to be banned anyways... Hasnt this guy got anything better to do ?
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seanybruz
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Atkinson said At the cinema, we can stop people under 18 going in to see R18+ rated movies. We can’t stop these games that are extremely violent and depraved from getting into the home or getting into the hands of children.


So what he's saying is you can go watch an R18+ movie underage with adult supervision & he's ok with that yet he will continue to delay the inevitable of an R18+ videogame classification even though it would stop all this confusion on what's ok for kids/adults this whole article screams i'm a delusional hypocrite facepalm Mr Atkinson .

Atkinson said: But just because the system is not being applied properly, it does not mean that the principles of the system are wrong

More hypocrisy can't even admit the systems flawed
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Tsunamo
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Akinson said:We can’t stop these games that are extremely violent from getting into the hands of children.

What the ****? As if they would get into the hands of children. I'm 14, and every videogame retailer, or videoshop asks if i'm 15 to get MA15+ games. They would be more stricter with R18 games. As if the person selling it someone would mistake a child for someone over 18, little own let them get it without their parents permission. I hope to ****ing god MW2 doesn't get banned, I still haven't even got it. Grow up, Michael Atkinson. Children wont get their hands on R18 games, I can't even get get into a R18 movie, and if a R18 classification comes here I sure as hell wont be getting a R18 game until i'm 18.

seanybruz said:So what he's saying is you can go watch an R18+ movie underage with adult supervision

You actually can't. I've gone numerous times to the movies with my parents, and they wont let me into R18 movies.
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Vinzor
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What about movies that make it to DVD/BluRay etc?
What about the INTERNET?

What an incredibly retarded retard.
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mikerulz8
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WHAT A ****ING PRICK THIS **** NEEDS TO GROW UP I MEAN IM NOT 18 I'm 16 but when I reach 18 I wanna have the privilage to take the next step from my usual games but I feel sorry for these over 18 year olds been treated to violence for over 15 year olds which is nothing and also this prick needs to understand the power of real life when I watch an R rated movie I pick up more from that then a virtual sim that's not real and I'm not gonna go out and do this **** cause some of it I'd the most craziest stuff I've ever seen the only people who go out and do is people who have a joy in seeing somone die in a game and enjoy the pleasure of it if it was real
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QU1K51LV3R
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Please don't tell my mummy I bought a violent game mister Atkinson sir, I promise I'll never do it again
I'm only 31 and I can't decide what's best for me, you must tell me what I can and can't do mister Atkinson sir, it's for my own good and I'd be a completely lost soul without you
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goks
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Hostel - Part I + Part II: The High Definition Saga cover... but he think that is better then R18+ for videogames
optimusgoz
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Huddo said: doesnt he realise that once an r18 movie comes out on dvd and gets into the home that any child could play it?? also the ps3 has parental control to stop kids playing these games. the systems are there this guy just doesnt understand how to use them and is scared so he prevents others from using them



+ a hundred bazillion
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Morgan1219
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George Bush > This douchebag aussie politician that hates games
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tripleh11
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This guy just needs to **** off seriously.

/thisguy
Cryman
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hey guys dont worry, all this will to is increae more sales, and everyone will already have the version that is going to turn us all into Ivan Milat's before it gets banned
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GTADude
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He doesn't want a R18+ rating because of fears kids might acquire them, but that completely contradicts the purpose of the rating in the first place.... To be honest, i think there are games that do get the MA15+, but deserve an R18+
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Cryman
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GTADude said: He doesn't want a R18+ rating because of fears kids might acquire them, but that completely contradicts the purpose of the rating in the first place....



hear hear, thank goodness for curruptness
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GTADude
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I think he seems to live in a very idealistic and old fashioned world I'm sure he enjoyed watching war / action movies when he was young, and no one had a sook about that, as movies and books are a socially acceptable form of entertainment

Video games, even to this day, still aren't all that socially acceptable He doesn't enjoy or understand them so he wants them banned Its that simple, he's already stated that the only reason he debates it is because of HIS personal views....
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Pantera90
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FACTS 1. Parents are so fukin lazy that they can't monitor their kids 2. It's always stupid old douche bags that H8 games 3. The more games you take the people will want em
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Leasha
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Once again i say this man needs to look at the systems already in place that don't work! Id love for him to take a 16 yr old off the street and get them to walk in to any video store and rent or buy a copy of say " Pulp fiction" or " Trainspotting" - the 16 yr old would never be asked for ID and would walk home with the movie in hand ready to watch when ever! Look at the problems we already have- or don't have because i don't think young ppl are as stupid as he thinks they are- but stop having a cry over games when other systems that are in place don't work!
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LMA0
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This guy is a wanka
Sedat
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someone blow this ****s head off already
teknikal
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wtf his argument sucks....at the cinema they can stop children but they cant stop games from reaching children?
why compare apples to oranges...cinema to home entertainment...
if you compare it properly...dvds to games:
well in my video shop the porn section is right next to new releases...
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declan8
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what a ****ing ****, his argument is whack, he should be comparing dvds and games not cinemas. if i wanted, i could watch any R18+ rated movie in my house, if i wanted to watch and MA15+ movie i would, if i wanted to play an MA15+ game i would. if i wanted to watch an R18+ movie i'm sure i could get my hands on one easily enough, but if we had R18+ games i'd probably have more trouble getting one of those in my hands than an R18+ movie. what a **** can't wait til he ****ing dies of old age. what a prick. its just his personal view on games. hes not consulting anyone else about this other than himself. and how is that democracy? one person's personal views stopping hundreds of thousands playing games
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ozchap
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well, Orwell wrote 1984 60 years ago, and its been slowly coming true for decades now.

Of course its not right that they tell us what to do, think, watch etc, but some people are acting like this is unbelievable. wtf?

this guy is a nutter, thats nothing new. all this big whoop about aus games classo's to me is just another thing like underage smoking/drinking, smoking pot, graffiti, d/l movies etc where if you want to do it, you just have to do it illegally. no point making a big fuss about it....these types of people arent going to change in a hurry.....especially not from us telling him he's a ****ing **** ****head ****

its definitely not a preferable outcome to go bald from stress and still have the same problem you began with
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snooker8th
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There's so many fb groups hating on this dumb prick
FireFly789
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I think he needs to get a new Hobby, and stop picking on poor old computer games. You will have to priy my game from my cold dead hands Boy.
pdark007
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its 'comrades' like this tool that are pushing us further and further into a police/communist state. theres a law for everything and the amount of legislation we live under every day is rediculous. Dont want to sound extreme but people dont like being repressed and if they are begging for a mass riot/protest this is just one more match in the fire
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mickyt888
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Its the people at the game shops etc fault if they don't ask for ID if there where 18+ games.

At cinema's kids sneak in anyway to MA15+ and 18+

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mickyt888
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Vinzor said: What about movies that make it to DVD/BluRay etc?
What about the INTERNET?
What an incredibly retarded retard.



There going to put a filter australia wide soon.

So don't have to worry as we all will be filtered to PG13 sites.

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Morgan1219
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If only under 18 people could sign the petition i would be on to all my friends about signing it. I think someone should email Kotaku since its australian and quite popular
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Entice
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Someone please fire this idiot.
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livemaI
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mickyt888 said:


Vinzor said: What about movies that make it to DVD/BluRay etc?
What about the INTERNET?
What an incredibly retarded retard.


There going to put a filter australia wide soon.
So don't have to worry as we all will be filtered to PG13 sites.




If that happens I am moving to America
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QU1K51LV3R
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pdark007 said: its 'comrades' like this tool that are pushing us further and further into a police/communist state. theres a law for everything and the amount of legislation we live under every day is rediculous. Dont want to sound extreme but people dont like being repressed and if they are begging for a mass riot/protest this is just one more match in the fire


When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty
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Ramzez
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Welcome to the Nanny State... comrade.
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Vinzor
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mickyt888 said:

Vinzor said: What about movies that make it to DVD/BluRay etc?
What about the INTERNET?
What an incredibly retarded retard.


There going to put a filter australia wide soon.
So don't have to worry as we all will be filtered to PG13 sites.


Pretty sure Telstra(?) already did tests with that and failed.
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GTADude
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Vinzor is right, it filtered Government websites, educational websites but not hardcore porn or child porn....

Its backed by the Government, therefor it must be ****
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Kerrby
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ozchap said: well, Orwell wrote 1984 60 years ago, and its been slowly coming true for decades now.



George Orwell is a legend though.

His books kick ****.
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TK429
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Atkinson should concentrate on other matters- instead of targeting what affects children mentally, how about physically? Like fix the Department of Community Services to protect children from getting brutalized and even murdered by unfit adults/parents.
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stonecold
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A little to late everyones got the game
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IKTPQ
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he looks like a kiddie feeler to me
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Airwolf
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Lets put him on an oil rig and go to town on him
2112azza2
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livemaI said:


mickyt888 said:


Vinzor said: What about movies that make it to DVD/BluRay etc?
What about the INTERNET?
What an incredibly retarded retard.


There going to put a filter australia wide soon.
So don't have to worry as we all will be filtered to PG13 sites.


If that happens I am moving to America


thay cant, there ill always be proxy sites and my very favourite site
https://disturb.in
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1800PS3
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This guy is a douche.
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teknikal
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everyone email him and challenge his arguments:

Croydon EO <Croydon@parliament.sa.gov.au>
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Pantera90
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pdark007 said: its 'comrades' like this tool that are pushing us further and further into a police/communist state. theres a law for everything and the amount of legislation we live under every day is rediculous. Dont want to sound extreme but people dont like being repressed and if they are begging for a mass riot/protest this is just one more match in the fire

+1
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its_tricky
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"At the cinema, we can stop people under 18 going in to see R18+ rated movie" YEAH BUT, Once it's in the video shops and at k-mart or DVDEZY, there's no stopping a 12 year old buying it. Gawd, is this guy for real. I doubt he even has a TV in his own home.
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10letters
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woot yes i wish this guy was prime minister
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Forestral
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I'd say show people the world as it is, a sick twisted freakshow where you are the puppetmaster without front row tickets and wherever you are standing your still on the stage, removal, bans and further attempts of removal of the R18+ rating is just a placebo. Where there is the will, there will always be a way, smoking with the filter on or off will still give you cancer, knowing in the end everyone you know and love will eventually die.
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declan8
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10letters said: woot yes i wish this guy was prime minister


i hope that was sarcasm...
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Megaaidan
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The problem with this guy is he wants too stop us from playing it, the creators from making it, companies from endorsing it.
He dosnt get it, something so popular is going to be hard to get rid of
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nickkcin
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Morgan1219 said: George Bush > This douchebag aussie politician that hates games


Wrong. He likes the Wii.
Anyways, so this wont affect us anyways? because we already own the game and all?
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jsutton001
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Here is the link if you guys feel like listening to Atkinson on ABC radio. To here his views

www.abc.net.au/
Mobe1969
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This man is such a toad. I bet he flosses his teeth with butt hairs.
smASHer
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this guy reminds me of the bitch on The Simpsons that always says 'will somebody PLEASE think of the children!' lol what a whiny bitch this guy is!
 
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