At the moment you can, of course, completely bypass the ban by buying the game from abroad, but consider this:
Parliament has just nodded through the Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill for its second reading with barely a comment on the proposals to make it illegal to possess "violent pornography" on the basis that they think that simple possession of this material may make a murderer of you.
They have also announced *yet another* review of whether violence in computer games etc affects people (despite the fact that they only did one a few years ago and, once again, it came back with a negative result).
If the "violent pornography" proposals in the CJIB get into law the Government can then use the Legislative Reform Act to amend the law without actually bothering to even present it to Parliament and I would not put it past them to make it an offence to possess uncertificated "violent" video games so anyone who is in possession of Manhunt 2 will automatically be a criminal!
Write to your MPs people, http://www.theyworkforyou.com and tell them that we are *ADULTS* and we are quite capable of making up our own minds what we should or shouldn't see and we don't need Big Brother and the Nanny State introducing Thought Crimes on the "Precautionary Principle" that "well someone might do something nasty if they play this game/ see these pictures/ watch this film, so let's ban it just to be on the safe side".
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At the moment you can, of course, completely bypass the ban by buying the game from abroad, but consider this:
Parliament has just nodded through the Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill for its second reading with barely a comment on the proposals to make it illegal to possess "violent pornography" on the basis that they think that simple possession of this material may make a murderer of you.
They have also announced *yet another* review of whether violence in computer games etc affects people (despite the fact that they only did one a few years ago and, once again, it came back with a negative result).
If the "violent pornography" proposals in the CJIB get into law the Government can then use the Legislative Reform Act to amend the law without actually bothering to even present it to Parliament and I would not put it past them to make it an offence to possess uncertificated "violent" video games so anyone who is in possession of Manhunt 2 will automatically be a criminal!
Write to your MPs people, http://www.theyworkforyou.com and tell them that we are *ADULTS* and we are quite capable of making up our own minds what we should or shouldn't see and we don't need Big Brother and the Nanny State introducing Thought Crimes on the "Precautionary Principle" that "well someone might do something nasty if they play this game/ see these pictures/ watch this film, so let's ban it just to be on the safe side".