Posted on 11/14/2007 11:13:51 PM PST by CarrotAndStick
SINGAPORE: Singapore has banned a Microsoft Corp video game which contains a scene showing a human woman and an alien woman kissing and caressing each other, a local newspaper reported.
The Straits Times said “Mass Effect” -- a highly anticipated futuristic space adventure game from Microsoft -- was banned by Singapore's Media Development Authority.
In October, Singapore's parliament decided to keep a ban on sex between men and Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and said that the city-state should keep its conservative values and not allow special rights for homosexuals.
Singapore is the only country to have banned the game, so far, and it is the first Microsoft video game to be banned in the city-state, The Straits Times said.
The move has caused an outcry among local and international gamers who said the decision was too strict, the newspaper said.
The report said Singapore has in the past, banned at least two other video games -- Sony Corp's “God Of War 2”, for nudity, and unlisted Top Cow Productions’ “The Darkness”, for excessive violence and religiously offensive expletives.
(Reporting by Ovais Subhani; Editing by Valerie Lee)
What about a ban on sex between women and Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong? Why is he singled out? :-)
I’ll need pics of the lesbian scene in question to properly assess whether or not the censorship is warranted.
Yes, I agree, I will need multiple pictures as well to properly verify whether this situation is or is not in need of censorship.
And here I thought only Kirk got the blue chicks.
are you happy now? ugh
Rosie O’Donnell and Hillary Clinton made a video game together?
How do they know which one is the human and which is the alien???
well, that news report just drove up the sales numbers for the game in teh US.
Yep.
Geez, even communists have limits on how far moral values can be pushed. Not America though. We’ve become worse than Arabs. The first thing they do when confronted with an unfamiliar object is try screw it.
How did you get on the subject of Communists and Arabs?
Singapore isn't Communist and nor are many of their people Arabs.
Where was that night shot taken...Iraq?
You really have no idea what you are talking about.
How do we know the alien is female? Sure she has boobs, but that could be a male secondary sexual characteristic in that species. Second, Singapore didn’t have any problem with the inter-species sexual activity? Third, again, for this alien species, how do we know that is sexual, it could be just the way they negotiate deals.
I guess sex between men and Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has become a big problem.
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