{"id":2298,"date":"2010-02-19T00:06:31","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T07:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2010\/02\/australian-ag-more-afraid-of-gamers-than-gangs\/"},"modified":"2010-02-24T05:54:14","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T12:54:14","slug":"australian-ag-more-afraid-of-gamers-than-gangs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2010\/02\/19\/australian-ag-more-afraid-of-gamers-than-gangs\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian AG More Afraid of Gamers Than Gangs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/afp\/article\/ALeqM5ijE-zMtpOo3oP5owGUdBwbLVUaGg\" target=\"_blank\">from Agence-France Press via Google News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p id=\"hn-headline\" style=\"border-width: 0px; margin: 0.1em 0px 0.3em; padding: 0px; font-size: 24px; line-height: 24px\">Gamers more scary than bikers, says Australian minister<\/p>\n<p class=\"hn-byline\" style=\"border-width: 0px; margin: 0.2em 0px 0.4em; padding: 0px 0px 1em; color: #676767\">(AFP) \u2013\u00a0<span class=\"hn-date\" style=\"color: #000000; margin-top: 0px; padding-top: 0px\">4 days ago<\/span><\/p>\n<p>SYDNEY \u2014 An Australian politician who opposes the lifting of a censorship ban on adults-only computer games has said he feels more threatened by gamers than outlawed motorcycle gangs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The outlaw motorcycle gangs haven&#8217;t been hanging around my doorstep at 2:00 am, a gamer has.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><center><object height=\"344\" width=\"425\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/MJtc2CzYKHo&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/MJtc2CzYKHo&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" height=\"344\" width=\"425\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center>\u00a0South Australia&#8217;s Attorney-General Michael Atkinson, who has the right to veto the lifting of a national ban on computer games rated too violent and extreme for consumption, said he had received a threatening note from a gamer.&#8221;I feel that my family and I are more at risk from gamers than we are from the outlaw motorcycle gangs who also hate me,&#8221; he told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation late Monday.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/afp\/article\/ALeqM5ijE-zMtpOo3oP5owGUdBwbLVUaGg\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at Google News<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Agence-France Press via Google News Gamers more scary than bikers, says Australian minister (AFP) \u2013\u00a04 days ago SYDNEY \u2014 An Australian politician who opposes the lifting of a censorship ban on adults-only computer games has said he feels more threatened by gamers than outlawed motorcycle gangs. &#8220;The outlaw motorcycle gangs haven&#8217;t been hanging around [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}