CA Officials Respond To Lawsuit

Gamasutra is reporting on Yee and Schwarzenegger's response to the lawsuit brought in response to the violent games bill passed recently in California. From the article: "History has proven in cases of child labor and physical assault on children that we can and should pass laws to protect them. I am a strong believer in the First Amendment and in free speech, but when a game allows a player to virtually commit sexual assault and murder, as a society we must do what we can to protect our children, as we do for alcohol, tobacco, and pornography, among other items," We've previously reported on the passing of the bill and the filing of the lawsuit.

Comments

Re:Sexual Assault??!

[hunterx11]

And here I've been playing murder simulators when I could have been playing rape simulators! Aren't I a sucker?

Re:Apples & Oranges

[Chyeld]

"Seriously, kids don't go out and say "Yippie skippie, I wanna work in a coal mine for 12 hours a day!" or something similar."

Appearently, if you made a video game about it, they would!

"Oh... you load sixteen tons and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt..."

I can see that working, can't you? After all, people played SWG!

Okay then...

[Dr.Dubious DDQ]

[...]but when a game allows a player to virtually commit sexual assault and murder, as a society we must do what we can to protect our children[...]

(insert "warming up" sound effects here.) "I raped and then strangled the puppy. Then I used the puppy's dead body to bludgeon a little old lady to death. After that, I walked across the street and flung both bodies on somebody's lawn."

There. I have "virtually" committed bestiality, animal cruelty, elder abuse, murder, jaywalking, trespassing, and littering, using technology that is readily available to children, with no more effort than it takes to post to Slashdot(tm)!

How many more will have to suffer before computer keyboards are outlawed for minors?!?!? WON'T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE CHILDREN???

Smacking

[Repton]

Is smacking kids illegal in California?

Talk about bad comparisons

[Tom]

"History has proven in cases of child labor

Physical act that harms someone

and physical assault on children

Physical act that harms someone

a game allows a player to virtually commit sexual assault and murder

Virtual act where nobody is harmed

alcohol, tobacco

Physical items with harmful effects

, and pornography, among other items,"

At last, the only thing that actually compares! Wow, yeah!

Now, hang on. What did we do about porn? Yes, we passed laws that allows only adults to buy them.

So we need a law that allows only adults to buy violent titles, like GTA. Say, people over 17? Hey, wait. We already have these laws, you fucking idiot!