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Explicit Video Games May Become Illegal (thanks theAntiELVIS) is a story (not too surprisingly illustrated by a GTA3 screenshot) with more details on the proposal by Rep. Joe Baca (D-California) about H.R. 4645 (story), his bill that proposes to "punish retailers who fail to enforce the video games' ratings system — slapping them with fines ranging from $1,000 to $5,000 and possible jail time for the third offense." The article offers quotes on both sides of the issue, including IDSA president Doug Lowenstein calling the proposed legislation "unconstitutional," going on to say that kids who get their hands on "M" rated games usually do so with their parents' knowledge. The article is uncertain about the chances that this will be ratified: "Baca has rallied 34 members of the House of Representatives to sign the legislation he introduced. But the bill's future is far from clear."

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Re: I agree with #23

Jun 20, 2002, 00:39

c r i s p y

#34 said:

Try being a parent and deciding what is appropriate for your child for a change. I've been playing video games (most of them violent in some form of the word) since I was five or six and I sure didn't kill my scholastic peers, nor my colleagues at work. Perhaps you were especially retarded as a child, but I certainly wasn't. I don't want you forcing your child's retardation on mine.
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I'm not exactly sure here whether you are insinuating that I participated in the killing of my 'scholastic peers' (or for that matter what it is that you actually wish to say), but I offer you a little bit of free advice: if you're goal is to sound intelligent in your posts there are two things you can do to improve your credibility: the first is to avoid reducing yourself to ad hominem attacks, and the second is to try to write something that actually makes sense, dumbass.




--- Chris.

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