Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Senator Clinton Slams GTA

Posted by Zonk on from the least-favorite-bandwagon dept.

Joining the ranks of such luminaries as Jack Thompson and Governor Blagojevich, GamesIndustry.biz has the word that Senator Hillary Clinton has joined right wing advocates in decrying the gaming industry as a paragon of loose morals and corrupting influences. From the article: "Children are playing a game that encourages them to have sex with prostitutes and then murder them...This is a silent epidemic of media desensitisation that teaches kids it's OK to diss people because they are a woman, they're a different colour or they're from a different place." Commentary available at The Australian. Update: 03/30 02:22 GMT by T : Thanks to reader mantle_etching, here is a link to the entire speech as delivered, so you can judge its content for yourself.

11 of 1,493 comments (clear)

  1. Fantasy and reality by fembots · · Score: 5, Funny

    You think killing prostitutes are bad? Wait until you see soldiers team-killing each other in CounterStrike.

    --
    Rock that crushes, Paper & Scissors that don't matter.
    1. Re:Fantasy and reality by geekoid · · Score: 5, Funny

      George Washington.
      After that, it gets iffy.

      --
      The Kruger Dunning explains most post on /. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
    2. Re:Fantasy and reality by Some_Llama · · Score: 4, Funny

      "Results: Set A children angered more easily and were more prone to hitting each other in play. Set B children were more patient, hit each other less, and had calmer attitudes."

      Makes sense, my daughter often punches her brother in the arm after he kills her for the 5th in CS with the awp on our LAN.

      Did the study show any correlation between games and outburts of profantiy? (like AWP WHORE!!)

    3. Re:Fantasy and reality by Ironsides · · Score: 4, Funny

      Set A was boys and Set B was girls?

      --
      Fly me to the moon Let me sing among those stars Let me see what spring is like On jupiter and mars
  2. Probably hits too close to home... by grub · · Score: 5, Funny


    ... but did you ever notice that not a single politician slams Thief?

    --
    Trolling is a art,
    1. Re:Probably hits too close to home... by pilgrim23 · · Score: 3, Funny

      She was quoted as saying something about a "Vast Right Lane Conspiracy"....

      --
      - Minutus cantorum, minutus balorum, minutus carborata descendum pantorum.
  3. I agree by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    It is wrong to murder prostitutes after you have sex with them.

    Unless they charge more than $50, then its ok.

  4. diss?! by JazzyJ · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hilary Clinton... used the word 'diss' in a sentence? Hilary Clinton?!?...

    Isn't that one of the signs of the Apocalypse???!?!

    Are we sure it wasn't George Clinton?....

    1. Re:diss?! by BlueMud · · Score: 5, Funny

      I'm not so concerned with 'diss' as I am 'colour.' When did she stop using American-English? Last I knew, we banned the letter 'u' about the same time we dumped all that tea in the harbour. CRAP!! There it is again!!! Please save me from the extraneous U's!!!

  5. GTA definitely had no effect on me. by The_Rippa · · Score: 5, Funny

    I was murdering prostitutes WAY before GTA came out.

  6. Re:Slashdot Translator by govtcheez · · Score: 5, Funny

    Kids don't grow up to become prostitute-murdering psychopaths because they played a videogame that "taught them it was cool."

    But my mom said I could be whatever I wanted when I grew up!