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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: Why do I hear so much about censorship in Australia? How did they get to be so strict about what they censor?
gpt
1. Why do you hear so much about it?

Because your journalists had a slow news week.

2. How did they get to be so strict about what they censor?

Honestly, age. We have a large baby boomer population that votes again and again to keep the status quo. For the longest time we weren't actually censoring video games that didn't meet our MA15+ classification but because we didn't have anything above MA15+ for video games as a whole.

So they were deemed RC(refused classification) and banned from sale. It's less malicious and more carelessness on our part.

We are still not quite as bad as germany or china but sensationalist media and click bait writers are fearful of both it would seem.