The Age: ‘Rape simulator’ game goes viral amid calls for censorship

Attempts to ban a deplorable “rape simulator” video game have only caused it to spread virally across the internet, leading to calls for sites hosting the game to be blocked by internet censors.

Karen Willis, executive officer of the NSW Rape Crisis Centre, said in a phone interview that the existence of material such as the RapeLay video game, which lets players simulate stalking and raping young girls, made internet filters, such as those proposed by the government, necessary….

Willis said she “absolutely” believes the forthcoming internet filtering regime is necessary and should block sites that offer access to the game.

Here’s a copy of the cover of the game, what’s the one thing that stands out (well, besides the young anime girls)

Did you notice the DVD part?

It’s not an online game, it’s an actual game that you can download or buy on DVD.

And if it’s a download, what’s the most common forms of downloading on the net again, and are these blocked by the internet filter? 🙂

I wan’t an internet filter for stupid people, and I’m adding Karen Willis on my blacklist after Chairman Rudd and Reichsminister Conroy.

Inquisitr: Gothamist Blog Network Acquired For $5-$6 Million

I don’t know Jake much at all, although I’m pretty sure we swapped some emails in the early days. I covered the network in the Blog Herald days a fair few times, well, my memory is backed by Google as well here.

It’s just great to see one of the early few finally come up with an exit.

Which is why I found this comment from Nick Denton odd.

Don’t get me wrong: Nick is the master of all things blog, even if his first protege is burning through the remaining funding at a company I was once involved with, and bleeding traffic.

Thing is: I don’t care whether $5-$6 million isn’t the greatest exit after 7-8 years. It’s still an exit, and I don’t believe that even a couple of million each (and yeah, I get the CGT argument, been there, done that) is bad.

Probably not in NY, but I could buy a nice house with that and have change for the next thing. Hell, if someone wants to offer me low 7 figures for The Inquisitr tomorrow, please do; the divorce has been costly after all 🙂

In context, and this is where Nick may not get it, is that so many have fallen before them; that they lasted so long and could exit at all is a credit to Jake and Jen. It may not be the biggest exit, but it’s a respectable one in the broader context of those that came before.

Nick, I hate to say it, but you haven’t exited yet. That Gawker may be worth a stray $100 million on paper is way different to actually exiting.

Give them their credit without condition; they deserve it, and I think deep down you know they do, even if they never reached your heights. Besides, I’ve seen their network traffic, that valuation just helped you at least a little bit 🙂

So it bucketed down Golf balls here in Melbourne Saturday…well, it did where I lived, some media are reporting hail as big as lemons.

One of the few times I’ve ever been scared in weather (other times nearly exclusively on aircraft.) I actually pulled Declan away from the windows because I was scared that the hail would shatter them. The noise is something I’ll never forget: we have a colourbond roof, OMG it was loud.

I didn’t keep a full tally of how long it took for the media to cover it, but my general observations: slow.

The Age was first with the storm warning. News.com.au didn’t have it, but it did appear in the Hun just before storm. ABC mustn’t work Saturdays.

Afterwards, The Age was first up with a picture, but slow in updating the storm warning.

The Hun beat The Age, but it was a good 30 mins after the fact.

The rest followed. ABC was beyond slow, hours later.

Notably while the newspapers were still only just reporting it, Seven News that night (and it’s the only time I watch the news…natural disasters) dedicated the first full half to the disaster.

It was too local for my coverage (earthquakes and fires I’ll play, but hail not so much) but given what was coming out of Twitter in the minutes following, could have beaten them all….and anyone else could have as well. I was sharing video and pics via Twitter from others 15 minutes before the MSM hit the story hard.

It would appear though that the MSM here in Australia continue to get caught short on weekends.