GAVI - Risk and Considerations

Censorship

In each industry there must be at least some censorship, this usually applies in either a game or animation if there is violence, nudity or drugs. There must be a limit of how much is shown to the public although age restrictions help in the games industry young children often get away with play R-18 games such as Grand Theft Auto and are exposed to these things.

Child Protection on the Internet
Games consoles all come with parental controls. Different manufacturers offer different degrees of control and functionality, but generally they all have the ability to:
• Block the playing of games based on their age rating
• Block the playback of nonlinear audio-visual content (i.e. films) based on their rating
• Disable or restrict access to network functionality including web browsing and messaging

• Disable voice chat .

Age Rating
It is a self regulatory age rating system operates through a principles based code of practice, against which content providers across the EU self-declare their practice. PEGI is the basis for which parents can age-restrict access to game content whether that content is delivered on physical media (such as a disc) or online as a download or browser based game. 


  • PEGI 3 - The child should not be able to associate the character on the screen with real life characters, they should be totally fantasy. The game should not contain any sounds or pictures that are likely to scare or frighten young children. No bad language should be heard.
  • PEGI 7 -  Any game that would be rated at 3 but with some more frightening scenes allowed.
  • PEGI 12 -  Show violence of a graphic nature towards a fantasy character, any bad language should be mild.
  • PEGI 16 -  This rating is applied once the depiction of violence or sexual activity reaches a stage that looks the same as would be expected in real life. More extreme bad language and drugs.
  • PEGI 18 - The adult classification is applied when the level of violence reaches a stage where it becomes a depiction of gross violence and/or includes elements of specific types of violence. Gross violence is the most difficult to define since it can be very subjective in many cases, but in general terms it can be classed as the depictions of violence that would make the viewer feel a sense of revulsion.



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