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Photo ID Required To Buy/Rent Games In Canada
securitas writes "Metro International newspapers Toronto edition reports that Canadian gamers must now provide photo identification to buy computer and video games. The restriction is part of the Retail Council of Canada's Commitment to Parents initiative, in cooperation with the Entertainment Software Association of Canada (ESAC) and the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB). The RCC says that it has the support of 90% of game retailers in the voluntary program. Read the RCC video game photo ID press release. There don't seem to be any guidelines for how the program will be implemented - whether it will be a simple flash of a photo ID card (which many teenagers don't have) or a more detailed user database, with its inherent privacy concerns. The Ontario government plans to come up with its own game ratings system after the Ontario Film Review Board gave Manhunt an 'R' rating. More coverage at the CBC and CTV before and after the official announcement."
Big brother's grip widens.. now they will be able to track what our kids use too!
Soon they will embed subliminal messages into games telling them it is good to snitch on their parents and be a PATRIOT.
Before you know it, everyone is a thoughtcriminal. Oh wait.
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I'm so sick of Bush and his cronies trying to tell us what to do. I'm fed up with those Nazis.
Canada is one of the finest National Parks the USA has, and it is going just too far, in my opinion, when we start over-regulating leisure activities like this.
Canadians have no civil rights as citizens. Canadians are chattel owned by an old crazy woman in England. When you are nothing but human chattel, you can be herded around however your owners see fit.
Hopefully I didn't put any [] around my words.
The ratings on games are self-imposed. By requiring a store to enforce those ratings, a game company now has a reason to rate every game they make with a 'G' rating (or whatever the lowest category is), regardless of the actual content. Or even, not rate it at all.
Don't pass stupid useless legislation, Canada. That's Bush's job. You're supposed to be the smart member of the family...
HA! I just wasted some of your bandwidth with a frivolous sig!
To increase the dullest things about canadians now they come with this, see how an overpaid bureaucracy can go "hey we make too much money, have nothing to do and we are bored of bashing americans ... hmmm lets see... what about asking for ID's for video games".
what about ebay... you can buy M material using a friend or something pst... and they say they are smarter than americans...
Bullshit
You have the promise of health care.
Try actually getting that for which your share of taxes pay.