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Clinton, Lieberman Propose CDC Investigate Games

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the truly-contagious-outbreak-of-puyo-pop dept.

Gamespot reports that Senators Clinton and Lieberman have asked the Centers for Disease control to investigate how games impact us poor deluded citizens. From the article: "Even though the legislation--called the Children and Media Research Advancement Act--does not include restrictions, it appears to be intended as a way to justify them. That's because a string of court decisions have been striking down antigaming laws because of a lack of hard evidence that minors are harmed by violence in video games. The original version of the bill earmarked $90 million for the study, but Lieberman press secretary Rob Sawicki said that the committee had approved the measure without any dollar figure and that such a figure would be added later during the appropriations process." Gamasutra has some background on the bill, which was originally proposed in 2003.

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  1. Clinton by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'm posting this AC for obvious reasons:

    Democrats (those registered as such, not those that voted Kerry in the general), please, for the love of God, do not nominate Hillary Clinton. I'm as pissed at the Republicans as anyone, and I would love to seperate them, as a group, from as much power as possible and let things swing the other way for a few years, but if you nominate Clinton, the best I can possibly do is stay home on election day. If it's Hillary versus McCain, which seems to be everyone's current best guess, McCain is getting my vote.

    Please keep that woman away from the election.

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  3. Re:Where do we draw the line for the CDC? by TheDormouse · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    And more than what you mention, what Hillary MEANT was a child should be raised by the community's standards and not the parents. Wait, scratch that... what Hillary REALLY meant was that a child shouldn't be raised by the parent's standards, they should be raised by HER standards.

    Considering that the vast majority of people are complete idiots, that's probably not as bad as you think.

    ...but then people start screaming about their basic human right to reproduce and other such nonsense.