All Video Games Cause Aggressive Behavior, Say Two US Congressmen

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday March 20, 2012 @10:41AM from the not-intended-as-a-factual-statement dept.

Fluffeh writes with news that U.S. Congressmen Baca (D-CA) and Wolf (R-VA) have proposed a bill that would require most video games to have a warning label decrying their "potential damaging" long-term effects on children. "Under the one-page Violence in Video Games Labeling Act (PDF), packaging for all video games except those rated 'EC' for Early Childhood would be required to prominently display a message reading: 'WARNING: Exposure to violent video games has been linked to aggressive behavior.' The proposed label would be required even if the video game in question is not violent."

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Speaking of Labels by microbee · 2012-03-20 10:46 · Score: 5, Informative

How about "Congress has been linked with corruption and abuse of power" for any campaign Ads?
Re:Like War by Silentknyght · 2012-03-20 12:00 · Score: 4, Informative

Piggybacking on this comment, the two senators obviously didn't read the recent WSJ (or was it NYT) article specifically on the benefits of videogames. They had found that gamers--ESPECIALLY gamers who play violent video games--are significantly (like 25%) faster to arrive at the correct decision to a given problem compared with their non-gamer collueagues. Basically, the whole article was a giant middle finger to everyone who's ever said gaming is good for nothing.