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New York Bill Aims To Restrict Games Containing Profanity
GamePolitics notes a new bill out of New York which seeks to prohibit "the sale to minors of certain rated video games containing a rating that reflects content of various degrees of profanity, racist stereotypes or derogatory language, and/or actions toward a specific group of persons." It goes on to say: "These games, containing adult images such as morbid violence, rape, alcohol and illegal drug use, as well as other malicious acts, are not appropriate for children under 18. This legislation will regulate the sale of such games." The full text of the bill is available. It also suggests that children who are exposed to in-game crimes are more likely to participate in real-life crime.
Has the incidence of car theift risen faster than the increase in population? If not there's not even no causation, there isn't even correlation.
Lack of correlation does not imply lack of causation.
It is possible that Pac Man and other computer games do cause children to turn into violent homosexual flag-burning atheist rapist crackheads, but that there is some other correlated effect independently reducing (by about the same amount) the rate of violent homosexual flag-burning atheist rapist crackheadism amongst game playing children. Grin.
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