January 16, 2007 -
Yesterday GamePolitics reported on a New York State bill designed to block minors from purchasing games with racist or religious violence. Now comes word of a second video game proposal before the legislature in Albany. The measure, A02024, is sponsored by Rep. Aurelia Greene (D) and seeks to prevent underage players from buying violent games. The bill would also require that mature-themed games sold at retail be kept in an area beyond the access of minors.
Rep. Greene's bill has been referred to the Assembly's Committe on Consumer Affairs and Protection.
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I'll bet a yes vote was your choice for no talk & drive , mandatory seat belt & helmet laws or anything else to protec us from ourselves & strip freedom from americans .
Spending time on cutting taxes or bringing business back NY would be my suggestion , oh but theres no insurance co. lobby $ there .
I thought we all ready had a place for games like that, its called "that dude behind the register". Obviously you can't leave the store with out buying the game, and I'm fairly shure that if a 6yo tryed buying a Mature game, he wouldn't sell it to them. It's not like the cover of the game is like the cover of a nude mag or video or something, so i dont see why we should develope a whole seprate room just for them.
The law you're referring to has been toast for a while now. The federal judge ruling on it declared it unconstitutional last March. The state has yet to try again.
Also, somebody please do something about these goddamned spammers.
I guess when it is real blood it is OK but when it is simulated blood it is some how bad. looks like a typical case of Cranial Rectumitus. I understand it is very contagious among politicians. shrug
Thanks Tyetheczar
Why do you politicians always say that you are thinking about the poor helpless children being exposed to “murder simulators” (a Jackass Thompson quote) when you try over and over to ban rocknroll…er I mean video games.
Oh, those poor helpless kids with roofs over there heads, food on the table, clothes on their backs.
Meanwhile right at this very moment a child is being beaten, another raped, and another has abusive parents or other abusive adults. Thousands upon thousand of other children are hungry, dirty, lack proper education, do not have access to regular health care, are homeless, countless others have no parents.
Why aren't these issues more important to you than violent video games?
I know, because a poor helpless abused child can't vote. If they could (like the soccer moms that you love) then you would care. You and all gamebashing/protect the kids politicians are dispicable liars and scum. You make me sick.
In my opinion, not 1 more dollar should be spent on the “war on drugs” or banning violent video games while there are child smuggling sex rings, homeless/abandoned/ or unloved children.
To me these issues are infinitely more important. It sickens me that there are so many abuses of children in this country that no one seems to care about. Especially the (you)politicians.
I do not get it. I am a parent. I will and have taught my children that video games are make believe. I tell them that in the real world you cannot go and bash someone over the head with a baseball bat….but in the video game you can. I do not need you or someone else "protecting" my kids by wasting taxpayers money on proposed laws that (if you had half a brain) know would never pass.
Video games are no different than fantasy books were in the 1700’s. They are no different than rocknroll was in the 50’s. Conservatives FEAR change…always have, always will. I sometimes wonder what will be the next medium that the religious intolerant conservative nuttchuggers go after next. Maybe it has not been invented yet.
Someday this madness will stop and video games will be no different than movies, music, books, etc. And the religious right/neocons will move on to something else to fear, hate, and will want to ban/eradicate.
And the suffering of the poor helpless children will go on, and on, and on.
Please act like you care about people less fortunate than us, or better yet, go to a homeless shelter and explain to those starving/unwanted/abused children that they can't eat because you had to waste more money on ridiculous video game laws.
Judges and lawyers do. That's why you see these laws getting shot down quicker, and Attorney Generals being unhappy with the idea. The judges don't enjoy their time being wasted, and the AGs don't like being stuck with the job of defending something that can't really be defended.
We seem to agree that video games with mature content should be restricted to adults; however, forcing retailers to comply with these regulations with the penalty of significant fines is not the solution. Substances such as alcohol and cigarettes have been proven to have a detrimental effect on young people, whereas this has not been established with video games. You compare the restriction of movies with adult content to that of video games with adult content, but there is no law or penalty for selling R rated movie tickets to youngsters, the ratings and the subsequent restrictions for that medium are voluntary. If you impose heavy fines on companies for selling mature video game content to teenagers, you risk the possibility that many stores (such as Wal-Mart) may opt out of carrying those games entirely. This has an economic impact on the companies which produce said games, and also has the potential to affect the content development process of these games as well. Some companies may change or censor the content of their games – content that some adults may want, and might not be able to find otherwise.
"...its completely ok to say anything you want about white people."
That's because everybody knows you white folks are the devil incarnate. =) The double standard makes me sick as well.
Well i guess so long as it gets them votes from the SUV driving soccer moms and doesn't cost then anything, they don't give a damn.
But if we complain about it, OMG RACIST!
:P
I wonder if the drug test before hiring into the government...
@Snakestream
Exactly, racists aren't born because of a media format. Evil cannot be given to someone, it has to be created by one's own sins
I think they already did the 9-11 thing. I coulda sworn people were complaining that Microsofts' pilot simulators were so realistic that it was the method of choice for training for that exact scenario.
ha! What a joke....
First the anti game crowd says that games are bad because of violence in general
Now they are saying they are bad because of violence against people of a with a certain skin color?!?
So now according to the anti-game community, violence in wrong only when its against a certain ethnicity?!?
Can't say I find it very suprising considering that its politcally incorrect to make racial jokes against anyone who isn't white, but its completely ok to say anything you want about white people *rolls eyes*
Oh, those poor helpless kids with roofs over there heads, food on the table, clothes on their backs.
Meanwhile right at this very moment a child is being beaten, another raped, and another has abusive parents or other abusive adults. Thousands upon thousand of other children are hungry, dirty, lack proper education, do not have access to regular health care, are homeless, countless others have no parents.
Why are these issues more important than video games?
In my opinion, not 1 more dollar should be spent on the "war on drugs" or banning violent video games while there are child smuggling sex rings, homeless/abandoned/ or unloved children.
To me these issues are infinitely more important. It sickens me that there are so many abuses of children in this country that no one seems to care about. Especially the politicians.
I do not get it. I am a parent. I will and have taught my children that video games are make believe. I tell them that in the real world you cannot go and bash someone over the head with a baseball bat....but in the video game you can. Video games are no different than fantasy books were in the 1700's. They are no different than rocknroll was in the 50's. Conservatives FEAR change...always have, always will. I sometimes wonder what will be the next medium that the religious intolerant conservative nuttchuggers go after next. Maybe it has not been invented yet.
Someday this madness will stop and video games will be no different than movies, music, books, etc. And the religious right/neocons will move on to something else to fear, hate, and will want to ban/eradicate.
And the suffering of the poor helpless children will go on, and on, and on.
Frack Jackass Thompson, Hillarythefacistpig Clinton, Joe Lieberman and Bill O'nazi Riley.
Yesterday GamePolitics reported on a New York State bill designed to block minors from purchasing games with racist or religious violence. Now comes word of a second video game proposal before the legislature in Albany.
The measure, A02024, is sponso...
I was raised on video games, I believe I am a good person though. I dont like violence, I believe in non-violent conflict. These reports of killers killing because of video games make the whole industry look bad.
To draw some easy conclusion from this comment, just take a look at Pat Pulling's son who died allagedly because of DnD. He suffered from social disorders, depression, and a case of schizophrenia, yet she blamed it on DnD!! This violence comes from people with prior mental illness! Not some kid who just played a good game of Grand Theft Auto!
Reps may be big on "judging morality", but they temper it with a reluctance to interfere in industry. If it was punishing unruly teens alone, I think Reps would have no problem proposing it, because the little buggers are clearly guiltly. Dems on the other hand have no problem telling industry what to do, because they know best...
That's because it allows them to look like they're moving to the right without doing anything of substance.
As for the dems though, i would assume that their too cowardly to face the evil republican opressors, so they try to solve other crap instead.
If at first you don't succeed, pretend you're protecting a different demographic and try again.
Eventually some kind of scare tactic will make it past a sympathetic judge, right? ;)