March 23, 2007
According to a press release issued by Microsoft, Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett (R) has issued comments supportive of video game industry efforts to keep younger players away from inappropriate video game content.Corbett's remarks were cited as Microsoft's Safety is No Game. Is Your Family Set? bus tour rolled into Philadelphia today. The Attorney General said:
Parental controls and the video game rating system are important tools that parents can use to help ensure their children don't access inappropriate digital entertainment. I urge all parents and caregivers to visit the Web site of the 'Is Your Family Set?' campaign to learn more about what they can do to help protect their children.
By GamePolitics' count, Corbett becomes the third state attorney general to publicly support the ESRB system. Others included Utah A.G. Mark Shurtleff and Georgia A.G. Thurbert Baker, both of whom appeared in televised public service announcements.
Comments
If we want to be taken seriously, many of us need to grow up and think of these things as the politicians would.
As I walk the path toward parenthood with my fiancée (wife in June!) in the coming years, I am glad to see an official taking a stand for empowering me to protect my children without taking away the freedoms our country was built on. Kudos are due to AG Corbett and his clarity of thought in the middle of a heavily politicized and murky issue. I wish him all the best of luck in his career, and hope to see his continued fight for parental education and empowerment.
(See these articles for the quote)
http://digital50.com/news/items/PR/2007/03/23/SFF006/is-your-family-set-...
http://gamepolitics.com/2007/03/23/pennsylvania-attorney-general-comment...
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Sent via email. I hope he reads it.
Maybe that is why politicians don't take us seriously, we have no passion but to defend ourselves.
PS Thanks for writing the letter ~the1jeffy
Same thing i would say. Good to see another one on our side. At least i think.
Yeah, with a little bit of Leslie Nielson.
I mean this is almost like 50's McCarthyism or something. Gamers need to be more vocal in what they want and how government intervention isn't always the answer (well in the case of Mr. Corbett, that is as much intervention I would want).
Kudos to Mr. Corbett and I hope many other politicians follow suit.
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