News.com.au reports on the ABC being forced to apologize over Tony Jones suggesting in an episode of Q&A that computer games aren’t rated in Australia.
Pretty much a non-story, even if it is on the front page of news.com.au, but given I’ve never watched the show, there was one part that flawed me:
During the episode aired on 24 July, chief executive of the Australian Industry Group Heather Ridout said she found it hard to support violent games.
Ms Ridout said she supported controversial photographer Bill Henson and that it was necessary to view art through “a different prism”, but violent games were “appalling”.
“Grand Theft Auto was one of the more famous games and seemed to turn everyone into a car thief,” she said.
“Violent games… violence, it breeds violence.”
The reference to Bill Henson for those not familiar with it was a case where Henson the artist published nude pics of kiddies, all in the name of art. There was an outcry at the time, and calls for censorship of the mag the pic was published, but it all came to little in the end.
So apparently looking a naked pictures of little kids doesn’t make you a pedophile, but playing GTA makes you a car thief. Hmmmm, I’ve played GTA before, and I don’t seem to have broken into a car yet.
Grand Hypocrisy of the first order.
