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Planned California Bill Targets Video Game Sales
joeflies writes "'California Assemblyman Leland Yee, D-San Francisco, plans to introduce legislation making it illegal for minors to buy the most violent video games and requiring game dealers to separate youth games from adult offerings.' Story
here from the Sacramento Bee."
now they'll just download them from kazaa
Damn lameness filter...
Well, why not? They do that for porn anyway.
This must be inspired by the huge success of the war on drugs!
"And this is my boy, Sherman. Speak, Sherman." "Hello." "Good boy."
requiring game dealers to separate youth games from adult offerings
Californians should really be worried about separating movie stars for politicians - confusing one for the other can really be dangerous.
for killling Mr. Toad's Wild Rice.
Bastard.
Is this truly the only Earth I can live on?
From the article: "Nowadays, gamers can shoot cops, beat prostitutes and torch still-struggling victims."
This reads like an advertisement for Grand Theft Auto III.
"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh." -Voltaire
From the article: "[It] would regulate the display of violent video games, requiring that games with a mature rating be stocked on a shelf separate from other games and at least five feet off the ground."
Did I miss an important study or something? Do psychotic killers now average under five feet in height?
"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh." -Voltaire
Will the Governator sign this, though? Kids might have a harder time buying the game based on his latest summer hit, T3: Rise of the Machines! Its a lot funnier when you hear the voice from the Conan O'Brien show in your heads.
Heh, I initially misread this as:
The United BibleWrapped America.
Works both ways.
I've sat and listened to Rage Against The Machine for a good 10 hours straight before.
*Leaves country knowing that now the FBI is tapping all of his phone calls because of this post.
"It is not how things are in the world that is mystical, but that it exists." -Ludwig Wittgenstein
Because sex embarrasses the bitter, hypocritical old farts, but violence and wargames are necessary to prime the next generation of warriors to go out and kill the other tribe's breeding heathens? :)
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Power to the Peaceful
My God, that's awful. Next they'll be stopping kids from watching X-rated movies and denying them the right to purchase cigarettes and alcohol. Those bastards.
Yes, that's it...guns don't kill people; video games people.
I didn't know that much of *anything* had sexual content yet. And assuming (as I hope) that he doesn't have GTA prostitutes in mind, what are these games he's thinking of and where do I buy a copy? Has this guy been importing Japanese dating sims for the express purpose of not giving them to his kids?
Not to mention that the American perspective on violence vs. sexuality is rather badly fouled up, as many other posters already remarked. Sexual behaviors -- love and physical reproduction both -- are quite thoroughly natural to humans, for obvious reasons. But any human's one strongest inborn aversion is against doing harm to another human. Even armies have never done well in overcoming all of a person's instictive aversion to doing harm or taking life, and I suspect that the totally unnatural is a bit more harmful to kids than the obscure but natural.
Someone tell these idiots that this isn't the 19th century any more, thank the Lord -- and that the US is no longer a frontier...
Roadblasters anyone?
you mean college students actually BUY games? this must be some weird fantasy world you speak of.