Where Politics And Video Games Collide

The problem here Thomas is that it does NOT apply to all types of Media, a law which did that would actually more constitutionally sound, but would never get past the lobbying stage because of the influence and lobbying experience of the TV, Video and Movie industries.

The problem, for me personally, is not so much that children should not play games intended for adults, we all agree with that concept, both sides of the argument, my problem is with the idea that this law should apply only to Video Games, it singles them out using the worst kind of stereotyping and generalisation, and establishes a precedent that people who play Video Games are somehow in the same league as smokers or drinkers, who are the only other groups which have their distribution controlled by a non-voluntary system. That, in and of itself, would be an open door to vexatious litigation by Jack Thompson wannabee's throughout the US, such a law, if passed, would effectively be a blatant claim that Video Games were an immediate health risk (not a passive one). In somewhere like the US it would be like opening the floodgates and would stand a high chance of crippling the Game Industries ability to grow for decades, much as the Comic Code did for Comics in the US.