California Legislature Passes Violent Game Bill

404Ender writes "In a move similar to the passage of a law designed to restrict the sale of violent video games to children in Illinois, California is now awaiting only the signature of Governor Schwarzenegger before a similar bill becomes a law. Does this action signal the start of a disturbing trend of the restriction of First Amendment rights? How can we as gamers fight back against this type of government action?"

Comments

Give me an F-ing break.

[nberardi]

This passing of the law is starting a disturbing trend against the First Amendment? This has nothing to do with the First Amendment, you can still buy your video games can't you? In addition if this is the first time you thing the First Amendment has been trampled on you are not only blind but ignorant.

What about McCain-Finegold, where a canidate is restricted from putting on ads about other canidates in the last 30 days? That is the trampling of Free Speach becaue a couple whiny Senators don't like people attacking them in ad form.

What about the forced removal of the ten commandments from court houses and public buildings. Don't give me seperation of church and state, because I would like to see somebody find that quote in the First Amendment.

What about the repeated calls for censorship of a certain talk show host by Senator Robert KKK Bird?

What about the calls for Blogs to fall under FCC regulations when contain political speach?

Give me an F-ing break this doesn't even come close to the crap I have seen in the last 2 years. You are a whiny panzy and somebody should take away your voter card and burn it.

Story of fools

[sonamchauhan]

> simimlar to... law designed to restrict the sale of violent video games to children
And you oppose that. What are you, a software industry shill?

> Does this action signal the start of a disturbing trend
> of the restriction of First Amendment rights?
No. Children don't have first amendment rights.

> How can we as gamers fight back against this type of government action?
Don't even try. The government is *of* the people.

You mean how can we encourage more of this?

[analog_line]

Children should not be able to buy Grand Theft Auto/Manhunt/Playboy Mansion games without an adult's obvious express permission. A lot of people whine about how "the parents need to take responsiblity for what their kids do" and I completely agree. With the parents of today, who on the whole don't want to be bothered by what their kids are doing, these laws are the only real way of forcing these shithead parents into minding what the hell their kids are doing.

People claiming the slippery slope here, or censorship either don't have a grasp on reality, or are under 17 and whose parents would now be forced to parent. Or parents that don't want to do anything, and want the "nanny state" to allow them to let their kids run wild so someone else can deal with their unwanted progeny.

What to do

[Arandir]

Does this action signal the start of a disturbing trend of the restriction of First Amendment rights?

No, because this action has nothing whatsoever to do with your First Amendment rights.

How can we as gamers fight back against this type of government action?

A) Figure out what the First Amendment actually is. And all the otehr amendments. While you're at it, go ahead and read the preceeding articles as well.

B) Stop voting for big government politicians. That means stop voting for Democrats AND Republicans AND Greens. For every one of you wanting a big government to control some other guy there's always someone else wanting a big government to control *you*!