US Senators Take On The ESRB Over Manhunt 2

eldavojohn writes "Some US Senate members sent a letter to the ESRB asking for 'your consideration of whether it is time to review the robustness, reliability and repeatability of your ratings process, particularly for this genre of 'ultraviolent' video games and the advances in game controllers,' the senators wrote. 'We have consistently urged parents to pay attention to the ESRB rating system. We must ensure that parents can rely on the consistency and accuracy of those ratings.' The group of lawmakers were concerned that Manhunt 2 was only given an 'M' rating and instead feel that it should have the 'AO' rating — a rating that only 23 other games have been given and a rating that would cause Sony & Nintendo to restrict it from being released on their consoles."

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Virtual violence BAD, real violence OK

[digitaldc]

Funny how some in Congress are so outraged about the violence in video games, but when it comes to 'Shock & Awe' and bombing countries back to the stone age, they have absolutely no compunction about it.

Maybe if they could just use it as a recruiting tool for the military, they would be on to something....wait, um nevermind.

Re:Did they actually play it?

[hairyfeet]

I think you are missing the point. It is actually VERY smart of them,if you think about it. Their defense contractor bribers are making too much cash off American and Iraqi blood to do anything about that, their giving tax breaks to their corporate bribers while they send every job they can overseas has left a large group of those with strong backs but without the intellectual capacity to go to college unemployed or working at Burger King for a pitiful minimum wage, so they aren't about to say or do anything about that. The infrastructure is slowly but surely falling apart but they are giving the money to the defense contractors in Iraq,so that is off the table

So what do you have left? They have all pulled the "rally round the flag" card one too many times for that old chestnut to work,so all they have left is the old classic "Think of the children!". Come election time they will trot this out to show "the people" that they aren't just sitting on their collective asses and taking bribes all day,no siree! The really sad part(and the reason why such a surprising number of the poor voted for bush) is that thanks to the mega corps having a stranglehold on mass media they will tell them how wonderful this is and how they are "fighting for your family" and they will buy it hook,line and sinker.