{"id":939,"date":"2021-03-24T12:31:24","date_gmt":"2021-03-24T11:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/24\/australia-urged-to-move-on-from-moral-panic-over-video-games-after-disco-elysium-banned\/"},"modified":"2021-03-24T12:31:24","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T11:31:24","slug":"australia-urged-to-move-on-from-moral-panic-over-video-games-after-disco-elysium-banned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/24\/australia-urged-to-move-on-from-moral-panic-over-video-games-after-disco-elysium-banned\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia urged to move on from \u2018moral panic\u2019 over video games after Disco Elysium banned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Calls for changes to classification system after award-winning role-playing game said to offend standards of \u2018morality\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>The banning of video game Disco Elysium from sale in Australia has renewed calls for the Australian government to overhaul the classification system to move away from the \u201cmoral panic\u201d associated with video games.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday afternoon, the Australian classification board <a href=\"https:\/\/www.classification.gov.au\/titles\/disco-elysium-final-cut\">announced Disco Elysium \u2013 The Final Cut<\/a> was refused classification on the grounds the game was found to \u201cdepict, express or otherwise deal with matters of sex, drug misuse or addiction, crime, cruelty, violence or revolting or abhorrent phenomena\u201d in a way that offended \u201cagainst the standards of morality, decency and propriety generally accepted by reasonable adults\u201d. It ruled the game should not be classified.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2021\/mar\/24\/australia-urged-to-move-on-from-moral-panic-over-video-games-after-disco-elysium-banned\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/014b22ecba8ad6b84fe9493d6c70b99b82f8d565\/152_0_3600_2160\/master\/3600.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=6d08c1c57ff4140899cf346b9079569e\" title=\"Australia urged to move on from \u2018moral panic\u2019 over video games after Disco Elysium banned\" \/>Calls for changes to classification system after award-winning role-playing game said to offend standards of \u2018morality\u2019<br \/>\nThe banning of video game Disco Elysium from sale in Australia has renewed calls for the Australian government to overhaul the classification system to move away from the \u201cmoral panic\u201d associated with video games.<br \/>\nOn Friday afternoon, the Australian classification board announced Disco Elysium \u2013 The Final Cut was refused classification on the grounds the game was found to \u201cdepict, express or otherwise deal with matters of sex, drug misuse or addiction, crime, cruelty, violence or revolting or abhorrent phenomena\u201d in a way that offended \u201cagainst the standards of morality, decency and propriety generally accepted by reasonable adults\u201d. It ruled the game should not be classified. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calls for changes to classification system after award-winning role-playing game said to offend standards of \u2018morality\u2019 The banning of video game Disco Elysium from sale in Australia has renewed calls for the Australian government to overhaul the classification system to move away from the \u201cmoral panic\u201d associated with video games. On Friday afternoon, the Australian &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/24\/australia-urged-to-move-on-from-moral-panic-over-video-games-after-disco-elysium-banned\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Australia urged to move on from \u2018moral panic\u2019 over video games after Disco Elysium banned<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":940,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}