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Social networking giant Facebook appears to have shut down the group on the site belonging to Grow Up Australia, a lobby organisation campaigning for a R18+ classification scheme to be implemented for video games in Australia.

On its own web site today, Grow Up Australia claimed Facebook had taken the group down because it violated Facebook’s terms of use. The organisation posted a picture on its site of Facebook’s notification (above).

“While an R18+ [rating] for computer games may be considered a controversial issue, we don’t believe that any of the content provided by the administrators of the group in question could be deemed to violate the terms of use,” said Grow Up Australia in a statement. “Very rarely, an inappropriate comment would be posted by one of the members, however the administrators have always been viglant in moderating the group and removing the inappropriate posts.”

Read the full article on Delimiter.com

Update: Due to the overwhelming attention at the removal of Grow up Australia’s Facebook page, and most likely Facebook reviewing their decision, we are pleased to announce that the original Grow up Australia Facebook page is back. It took less than 24 hours to accomplish this turn around. Let’s see how long it takes for an introduction of a fairer and simpler rating system to be implemented.

The original Facebook group page for Grow up Australia can be found here.

Worth a look at the very least