Now, I'm the first person to hate on Stephen Conroy and his ridiculously communist sensorship ideals, but this isn't really one of them.
In 2008-09 the classification board received 7,036 applications. That figure included applications for classifying 4,792 films, 1,095 computer games and 197 publications.
What happens when you add 20,000 iPhone games to that. Plus updates - do they have to be re-censored? The principal is ok, but the implementation scares me. (Oh - and we need an 18+ rating for video games, but that's another story)
This just underlines the point about scalability issues that this is running into and the great wall of Conroy will also run into. We all know the Internet is way too big to control so why try?
Puritanical catholic not commie, but once the system is in place that wont make a difference.
VPN's for one and all!
Pretty good deal for the yanks, they get to export freedom of speech for just $5 bucks a month.