All of the posters praising James Sensenbrenner seem to have forgotten that this is the same guy who just a couple of years ago said that if anybody violated FCC decency rules they should be sent to PRISON. This guy would have sent Bono to jail because he accidently said f**k on a live broadcast. He was the most extreme voice out of alot of extreme voices in the decency debate after the Janet Jackson incident. I don't trust this guy as a supporter of the 1st amendment.
I have to also say that I trust Democrats way more than Republicans in 1st amendment issues. Yes Hillary Clinton and Joe Liberman made a big deal out of the Hot Coffee thing, but any one who reads GP regularly knows that just a few weeks ago that came out in praise of the ESRB and its efforts to to do a better job rating games. Meanwhile, shortly after that, Christian Right Republican Sam Brownback introduced legislation that would require the ESRB to play games to 100% completion before giving them a rating. If this passes, wouldn;t this eliminate open-ended games like WoW? Those of you who think that the Republican party is going to go back to it's small gov't roots are deluding yourselves. As long as the Christian Right remains prominent in the GOP, Republicans will continue to act like old-time Southern Democrats who support big govt solutions. Hillary Clinton may have made a big deal out of Hot Coffee, but notice she worked it out with the ESRB.

It's nice to see a story here that has a politician supporting games rather than censoring them for a change. Three Cheers for Congressman Sensenbrenner!

@ Brokenscope
Preach on Brother!

A tip o' the hat to Rep. James Sensenbrenner, a wag o' the finger if he doesn't practice what he preaches.

(Yes, I stole that style from Colbert)

finally, a politician who actually knows their shit

A Republican talking about personal responsibility?! I can't remember if this is a return to core values or not...

Personally, I think the Democrats are digging their own graves by targetting modern culture as an 'evil thing'. It is neither good nor evil, it simply is what it is used for.

Certainly, it's never going to be a serious factor in 2008, but, in the case of computer games, the Republican house is simply for what it can grab in the next election, and not realising the kind of debts they are running up from people who are children now, the government will have to answer to those 'brain-addled teens' as adults at some point.

So yes, in the technophobia department, and regardless of my own personal politics, which are English anyway, it seems to me that the Democrats may be planting a seed of discontent among the youth, and that seed will be harvested one day, not as a direct 'You tried to censor computer games' kind of way but more a 'You don't have a clue about any culture under 50 years old' kind of way.

It's sad that we no longer expect to hear such truthful summarisation from a politician anymore. I guess my political beliefs make me a little shocked to see a Republican actually being the one to say it, but all credit to him. Nice to see someone clued in before making a soundbite.

I love it when we have intelligent politicians. Too bad not all are like this.

With so few politicians openly against this anti-game legislation, anyone who can be counted on this list is welcome.

Thanks for getting it right, Sensenbrenner.

Woah, now. Did someone slip me acid or some shrooms while I was asleep? Am I just really trippin out right now, and this story is a fragment of my hallucinating imagination?

Keep to this train of thought and we voters wont have to slam your balls to the wall.

Censoring games is the same as censoring any over the counter media,this leads to bad things.....

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