New Bill Would Restrict Sale of Video Games to Minors

Posted by timothy on Tuesday May 7, 2002 @08:04AM from the hey-they-can't-vote-right dept.

RobinH writes: "According to this article at MSN, "A bill introduced in Congress last week would make it a federal crime to sell or rent violent video games to minors," and it "would apply to games that feature decapitation, amputation, killing of humans with lethal weapons or through hand-to-hand combat, rape, car-jackings, aggravated assault and other violent felonies." We know that sometimes kids who are never exposed to alcohol until they are 19 or 21 can go way overboard the first time... is there a possibility of the same thing happening with violent video games?" Here's CNN's story as well.

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Offtopic, but... by saider · 2002-05-07 08:12 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I just saw an ad for Microsoft Visual Studio .Net on Slashdot (up in the banner). Very interesting...

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Re:Hey, Kids: Impeach John Ashcroft +1 ; Helpful by Script0r · 2002-05-07 08:51 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I know this is offtopic, but 420 being a police code is not a myth. My brother got busted smoking pot a couple months ago and it actually said 420 on the ticket. I live in San Diego California btw.