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AU Classification Board To Censor Mobile Apps

bennyboy64 writes “The Australian Classification Board is seeking to censor mobile phone applications under its National Classification Scheme. ‘I recently wrote to the minister [Senator Conroy] regarding my concern that some so-called mobile phone applications, which can be purchased online or either downloaded to mobile phones or played online via mobile phone access, are not being submitted to the board for classification,’ Australia’s Classification Board director Donald McDonald told a Senate Estimates committee. I wonder if they know that there are over 80,000 applications on the iPhone platform alone?”

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