And I thought the US was the only censorship-crazed free-world nation...

[Chewbacca]

Speaking of "free societies" and censorship... Doesn't Australia routinely ban movies and video games with explicit content? I seem to recall hearing about this every so often.

[True_Moose]

Germany's much worse, in terms of regulations on video games - they have an index, and if it's on the index, it can't be shown on store shelves or sold to minors.

Australia had a spat with Grand Theft Auto III and Vice City, specifically with the sex scenes (because that was the most offensive part of those games ) but that's about all I'm aware of.

[Lanesra]

Originally posted by Larry_OHF: I saw a video news bit on MSN that said that there is a popular new commercial for Australia tourism where this chick in a bikini says, "How the bloody hell are you?" Well...British censors have bleeped out the bloody word, even though that word is said to be used frequently on TV, movies, commercials, and everything else in Great Britain. What's going on?

Swearing is common on British TV but only AFTER the watershed of 9 pm. We have to think of the little ones!

[shamrock_uk]

Originally posted by Hivetyrant: Heheh, I saw a funny comic today, in response to England banning that add, instead of the "Where the bloody hell are you" it had a picture of a fat english bloke on a couch eating hot chips and it said "England, why the hell would you?"

[img]graemlins/hehe.gif[/img] Bwahaha, now that is funny!

Although we had this Australian girl staying with us for a while over the summer, and she said that the image Australia puts out of its male inhabitants being 6ft blonde tanned hunks is naught but a cunning disguise! Apparently you're as fat, loud and obnoxious as the rest of us

[Bungleau]

Apparently, the Australian tourism board that's behind the ad is ecstatic. Gives them an opportunity to route people to the real ad while poking fun at England...