As for the decision of the Australian game censors, you may disagree with this particular decision (I hardly think that anyone is going to try to build this gun & launch people in to the air with it after playing SR4) but you should at least agree that censors have the right to ban things for the good of the citizens of their country. The fact is that some of these censors have to watch some pretty appauling stuff and it's no easy job. You may disagree with the decision, but if you think about it on the criteria they are given to judge by, I can see how they would have come to it.
I had to put that in 2 comments because it was too long. Sorry if you don't like reading.
As someone who has trained in film & television & works in television in New Zealand, I know a tiny bit about censorship.
Basically most feature films that come into NZ go through Australian censorship first. Anything on TV goes through in house compliance. Most films or programmes are given a rating like G or AO for free-to-air TV or more specific ratings like 18+ for theatres & Pay TV. There are however a few things that get banned, which means that they are not actually allowed in the country. Around here freedom of SPEECH is pretty free, the only things that get banned are usually "sex and..." i.e. sex and violence, sex and children or sex and animals.
The reason censors might actually want to ban something is that they think it would be harmful for anyone to watch & enjoy it. If you want to enjoy watching someone have sex with a minor, too bad. That's illegal (as it should be) and no-one should be allowed to watch it. It's a social harm. Sexual violence comes under the same banner, no-one should be allowed to watch a movie that shows sexual violence as funny and entertaining.
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