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Did you see the figures posted in the article

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)

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The principal of classification isn't that great, but it is in play and it is here to stay. So it does need to be fair.

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?

don't forget nanny.gov.au will have to protect the children from all those evil flash games as well.

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