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Clinton, Lieberman Propose CDC Investigate Games
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.
Probably if you gave them $90 million for a silly little study they would be happy to.
Only $90 million? With a Federal agency involved that sort of chump change will hardly cover the ashtrays and the plastic coffee cups.
Only to idiots, are orders laws.
-- Henning von Tresckow
Where do we draw the line at what is considered "neglect" by a parent?
Anything that deveates from mainstream, white, upper-middle class values is "neglect".
Totally agree - I stopped by an orphanage last week, you should've seen all the video games.... [/sarcasm] So yeah, your point really doesn't apply.