Truth in Ratings Act Reintroduced

dropgoal writes "Sen. Sam Brownback of Kansas (and GOP presidential candidate) has reintroduced the Truth in Ratings Act. Like the previous version that failed to pass last year, Sen. Brownback's bill would make the FTC responsible for overseeing the video game ratings system and possibly result in a unified ratings system for games, movies, and TV. The ESRB would also have to review all game footage before issuing a rating. Currently, the ESRB hands out ratings after viewing a reel with representative content prepared by the developers. Sen. Brownback thinks that's not enough. 'Video game reviewers should be required to review the entire content of a game to ensure the accuracy of the rating. The current video game ratings system is not as accurate as it could be because reviewers do not see the full content of games and do not even play the games they rate', he said."

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won't survive

[Lehk228]

won't survive court if by some unholy miracle it get passed at all

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[fishbowl]

"The senator either knows this and does it to boost his popularity among game haters, or has no idea what he's doing."

All he needs to know is, if the Democrats go through with the plan to nominate Clinton and/or Obama, he can rely on the bigotry of Americans to elect, by default, any moron the Republicans care to run.

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[fishbowl]

>As opposed to electing Clinton, who's introduced practically the same type of legislation in the past?

Americans are not going to elect a woman or a black person to the office of president, period.