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National Review Defends Gaming
The National Review has a piece up entitled National Born Regulators, in which they lay out the problems with legislator decision-making processes when discussing videogames, and lay to rest some of the most common misconceptions around gaming. From the article: "Those games are the exception to the rule. The vast majority of video games sold each year do not contain intense violence or sexual themes. The Entertainment Software Ratings Board (ESRB), the video-game industry's self-regulatory labeling body, places ratings and numerous content descriptors on almost every game sold in America today. These ratings and descriptors are remarkably detailed and displayed prominently on all game cartons, making them easy for parents to evaluate."
I submitted this link a few days ago and it got declined. Bummer. Glad Zonk found it, though! It's a good article.
"I have never won a debate with an ignorant person." -Ali ibn Abi Talib
To clarify, the Democrats are pandering to the same base. Rather than refocus on some core concepts, they've apparently decided that if they pretend to be George Bush and Friends they can get elected. Except, nobody who would vote for them would be stupid enough to vote for a Bushite, and nobody who's stupid enough to vote for Bush would ever vote Democrat anyway, just because they're Democrats.
Democrats pandering to the same base? How are they doing this when they talk of impeaching Bush and have made there stand as being Anti-anything proposed by republicans?
The Dems can't refocus on core concepts because the core concepts of liberalism is rejected by the vast majority of Americans. Just witness why Dem presidential candidates have to move to the center to win while Rep candidates can run as conservatives.
Even today, when Republicans are most vulnerable, Democrats cannot take advantage of it. Why? Because they do not offer there own vision, they only offer themselves as anti-republican. They offer the public not a vision, but the prospect of the shrillness of Nancy Pelosi become speaker of the House...
And yet, who tries to regulate gaming ??
Hillary Clinton and Joe Lieberman, notorious conservative Republicans
And where did they try to limit games ? Michigan. As I recall, a Democrat signed that into law.
Heck, let's fire up the Wayback Machine. Remember the Communications Decency Act ??? ???. Sponsored by Senator James Exon, D-Nebraska. . .
Yep, look to the GOP to censor games and the Net. . . You keep forgetting the real rule of politics: When something sensational comes up, a politician will say "We need to DO something about this!!!"
And immediately, another politician pulls out a vaguely topical bill and says " THIS is something. . . ."
Followed immediately by a crowd of pols chorusing "Let's do it!!"
Which is why we get such heinous things as the CDA and the Patriot Act . . .
In all fairness, while it was signed by Granholm, it was passed by a Republican House & Republican Senate. Let's face it, Democrats & Republicans are co-conspirators in this matter. Keep voting for control-freaks, and you'll keep getting control-freak legislation. Maybe it's time gamers think about voting for Libertarians.
Taking guns away from the 99% gives the 1% 100% of the power.
That was one of the few PERFECT and error-free posts I've seen on here :)
--- Grow a pair, liberals... stop letting the Republicans bully you!