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Watch How Misinformed Aussie Politicians Are About Video Games on Kotaku Australia has a clip highlighting one of the main problems facing the acceptance of violent games as something with an appropriate place in society. Politicians have no incentive to understand any issue (not just video games) beyond talking to the general public's understanding of the topic, which leads to legislation based on the lowest common denominator of perception. Count the number of times the panel professes ignorance of the actual subject matter of the games as an excuse for not allowing them, and how none of them seems to be pro-censorship, seemingly rationalizing that they are not advocating censorship in these cases, when of course they are. This is a problem here in the States (and presumably most places) as well, where topics like this one are used as political footballs (of either the round or pointed variety), with little concern for the facts. And for a brief moment in there I thought that "journalist" was taking a pretty reasonable position, and then she played "gotcha" with the questioner, apparently thinking that the burden was on him to justify why he should be allowed to buy Fallout 3. Sigh.

Okay, I'm off the soapbox. Feel free to use it for soap again.

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