CD Censorship Starts in Sydney

[nycademon at ATTBI.COM]

Funny (for me anyway) to see this now. I just recently discovered that there was an old CD-ROM game,
Phantasmagoria, which had been banned in Australia. My brother had a copy, and I played the thing
years ago, and while it had some "disturbing" content, I don't remember anything that would
justify banning it. Then again, I haven't yet come across anything I would ban, had I that
power.

Well, I'd probably say something snide to the poor oppressed Aussies about freedom
of speech/expression and the "land of the free, home of the brave", but our current regime will
probably do away with such inconveniences in the near future. And here I was wondering if I should
flee to Australia . . . :-)

Guido
> On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 05:07:07PM +0000, M Holmes wrote:
>
> => http://www.free-market.net/rd/941178217.html
>
> Whereas I have to grudgingly admit that anything that makes it harder
> for people to own J.Lo CDs can't be all bad, I have to wonder how some
> cherished opera favourites will slip past the yardstick of "themes
> such as violence, drug use, murder and suicide..." >;-)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Paul.
>
> e-mail: paul at gromit.dlib.vt.edu
>
> "Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production
>  deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid."
>         --- Frank Vincent Zappa