Australians have gotten the short end of the gaming stick for some time now, with several games either receiving edits or simply being banned because of the country's lack of an adult classification. Now you can be the one doing the stick shortening thanks to the free downloadable title Ban This Game!, which lets you click on arguably offensive materials to ban them while South Australian Attorney General Michael Atkinson and Minister for Broadband and Communication Stephen Conroy look on approvingly. (We've got a brief video after the break if you'd like to see it in action.)
If you'd like to take your activism beyond clicking 50 Cent and giggling, there's loads of more info on the game's Facebook page.
The rules we have here do suck, but there are ways around most things. No region coding on blu-ray or getting 360 games from neighbouring countries in the pal region can easily be done. My friend also got left 4 dead 2 gifted on steam from Canada, seriously the edited version is a fucking joke. But hopefully things will be different soon. If GoW 3 however gets banned for the public I will really be mad.
I wonder if this could be taken farther. Maybe find some independent films with cheap licensing fees (or sympathetic creators) that were allowed in Australia but contain stuff that would earn an instant ban if in a game. Then play clips of that stuff while you choose whether or not to ban it. Then submit it for classification in Australia and see what happens.