Hackers Deface Australian Rating Board's Website

If you treat the general populace like a bunch of idiots, they'll act as such. If you treat them like a gang of violent criminals, they'll act as such.

If you treat them as respectable citizens doing the best they can, they'll generally act as such. How's about using some of those apparently excess tax dollars you're gonna spend policing the internet, and starting a marketing campaign teaching citizens to choose for themselves?

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Couple of points I'd like to say.

1. Re M15+/R18+ rating: The OFLC does nothing but look at games then apply a rating based on what they have available to them. They don't really have a role in the whole ratings issue, if the attorney generals agree for an R18 category, then the OFLC would just use that for games that don't match it's M15+ rating.

2. The hacking: Their message would be in relation to our possible pending bullshit censorship plan for the internet. Retarded thing to do, but at least it'll get people talking about the issue. Most of our news is fairly intelligent, it's only the 'issues' shows like today tonight that put sensationalist spin on it so there won't be much of a media bias towards the government.

3. Censorship: As it stands the policy won't get through, because of party factionalism labour (current sitting party) doesn't have a majority, they need some independants to push it through. In fact I think by my count they need all, so as long as one of them votes with the liberal party against it the law to allow the cencorship would fail.

Correct punctuation and spelling would have been nice.

Andrew Eisen

The method is controversial, but, when you don´t have any power of voice, what other way do you have?

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Nice, but they could have at least tried to do a little more damage than that. Nobody but gamers and the Rating Board is going to care.

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Anger is a great way of inciting change.

While what they had written was correct, I don't think this would go down well if the site was hacked.

No one deserves their site to be hacked, because that sends out a negtive message about us computer users.

So please, don't try to put any blame on the OFLC, they have been doing all they can to balance out the ability to inform parents with the freedoms of adults to chose what they want to play.

Like think about it, 4 years ago the OFLC was getting allot of criticism, and in the past few years they have allowed more adult games in that stretch the MA15+ all because of one man who will never listen.

And it was the OFLC who originally asked for the R18+ rating to be introduced for videogames.

So without them, we would not have had a chance to start up this debate in the first place.

So get real people, don't attack the OFLC, start making a real point and protest against Mr Atkinson, the only guy who is holding back the R18+ rating for Videogames.

Or better yet, try to write to the Vic and ACT Attorney Generals about trying to support the R18+ rating for Videogames in State Parliment instead of federal, because if laws can't be passed federally then they might be able to be passed with each State just like in the Abortion and Stem Cell research debates.

The hacker didn't need to act so childish about it, he/she could have done something more creative and used it a bit wiser than simply making silly spellings for internet lingo.