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CA Officials Respond To Lawsuit

Posted by Zonk on from the think-first-then-pass-laws dept.

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.

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  1. If You Only Read Sudies That Support Your Belief.. by nick_davison · · Score: 5, Interesting

    As was pointed out in the current PC Gamer, during an interview with Ye...

    Ye "As a trained psychiatrist, I know how important it is to not expose children to these kinds of things. Many studies support this."

    PCG "What about the many studies that show absolutely no correlation can be proved."

    Yee "Statistics can be manipulated. I know how important it is. Many studies support this."

    PCG "What about the fact that the violent crime rate in teenagers has dropped every single year since the release of the PlayStation and is now at half its peak ten years ago and the lowest it's been since the 70s."

    Yee "Statistics can be manipulated. I know how important it is. Many studies support this."

    In other words, he's formed his opinion and, whilst quoting statistics that suit him, has absolutely no interest in even exploring the massive weight of evidence to the contrary because statistics can be manipulated.

    The amazing thing is he doesn't even seem to be embarassed to feed such a load of clearly self serving bull.