Peter Gallagher

Remark­ably, the Aus­tralian Clas­si­fi­ca­tion (i.e. ‘cen­sor­ship’) Board has man­aged to do it to them­selves. They have ‘banned’, a computer-console game that has been passed­with­out cuts in the USA and UK, appar­ently because it con­tains the same hor­ror fan­tasies that were explicit in the cult movies from which they derive

“The game con­tains first-person per­spec­tive, close-up depic­tions of human char­ac­ters being sub­jected to var­i­ous types of vio­lence, includ­ing explicit decap­i­ta­tion and dis­mem­ber­ment as well as loca­tional dam­age such as stab­bing through the chest, mouth, throat, or eyes.” Extract from Aliens vs. Preda­tor in Australia

Aus­tralian adults (over 18) must be allowed to see and read and think what they wish (includ­ing thoughts about the exotic impale­ment of the Cen­sors). No other stan­dard should be tol­er­ated in a mod­ern, open soci­ety. The Cen­sor­ship Board is an enemy of such soci­ety in Aus­tralia. It should be shut-down.