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Congress Sets Sights on Videogames

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the cheap-election-tricks dept.

boarder8925 writes "According to CNET, Congress has set its sights on 'the purported problem of violent and sexually explicit video games.... A U.S. House of Representatives committee on consumer protection says it will hold a hearing on the topic later this month, with a focus on 'informing parents and protecting children' from the alleged dangers of those types of games.' " The article goes on to describe seven bills under consideration that either attach fines to the sales of Mature titles to children, or study "the effect of electronic media on youths." Five of them are sponsored by Democrats.

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  1. Damned if you do... by macadamia_harold · · Score: 5, Funny

    The article goes on to describe seven bills under consideration that either attach fines to the sales of Mature titles to children, or study "the effect of electronic media on youths." Five of them are sponsored by Democrats.

    I love how our political system works. You can either vote for the party that pisses all over the middle of the bill of rights... or you vote for the party that pisses all over the top of the bill of rights.

    AWESOME!

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    1. Re:Damned if you do... by ZakuSage · · Score: 3, Funny

      Once again proving that democracy doesn't work. But then again, nothing works. Life sucks and then you die.

  2. Re:Get your nose out of my kids a..es! by theStorminMormon · · Score: 4, Funny

    I, and I alone, decide which values to give my kids.

    So that they can grow up and rebel against them, of course! ;-)

    -stormin

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  3. Before you go to the hearing by sulli · · Score: 2, Funny

    make sure to drink a cup of hot coffee

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  4. The last remnants... by Stalli0n · · Score: 5, Funny

    The Senate will no longer be of any concern to us. I've just received word that the Emporer has dissolved the council permanently.

  5. Phew! Thank God! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I've been waving my shotgun around at the slightest noise while cowering behind this upturned dining table for years! For a long time I've been expecting video games to smash my doors down or climb through my windows and anally rape me, but now that the Guvmint is going to spend many hundreds of millions of tax dollars to banish this terror once and for all I can finally take this old blanket off my head at last.

  6. Re:Do they already pay attention? by WinkyN · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wait a minute ... you're quoting a Mac magazine about games?

    Are you insane?

  7. Re:Good to hear by kfg · · Score: 2, Funny

    Morons.

    Optimist.

    KFG

  8. Re:Get your nose out of my kids a..es! by Mateo_LeFou · · Score: 2, Funny
    Geez no, kidding; all this pirate bay, allofmp3, video game crap makes me want to say one thing:

    DUDES! Get up out of my jock and get back to word. For God's sake. Literally: for God's sake. God is going to die if you don't do this.

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  9. Re:With regard to the editorial remark... by gandy909 · · Score: 3, Funny

    You are wrong. There are NO good politicians....or lawyers either, for that matter.

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  10. Re:With regard to the editorial remark... by CosmeticLobotamy · · Score: 4, Funny

    Or humans, but we grade on a curve.