FPS Games & Minors [Nov 30, 2003, 4:34 pm ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
Bay Area Lawmaker Wants to Keep Minors from Buying Violent
Video Games (thanks HomeLAN
Fed) has word of an effort in the Bay Area to curtail minors' access to
violent video games that would classify all first-person shooters as adult only
by their very nature. Here's a bit:
Assemblyman Leland Yee (D-San Francisco) plans to introduce legislation this week that would keep minors from purchasing first shooter videogames, where players need to kill in order to advance.
“These first person shooter videogames really teach kids how to stalk and how to maim and torture and kill people,” Yee said. “That’s not what we should be doing for our kids.”
Yee is also a child psychologist, and he said, it is time to “draw the line.”
The bill would penalize retailers and other stores that sell the games to anyone under the age of 17. A second bill would require video game retailers to separate children's games from adult games.
step 1) do not allow retailers to sell games that have a rating higher than the age of the buyer. (its supposed to be like this already, but it still happens.)
The problem is that this is illegal and discriminatory. They don't even do this with movies.
What a mad world, presumably 5 year olds can go in with their pocket money and buy alcohol - to do otherwise would be discriminatory? I can't believe that anyone argues that
1. there should be no age restriction on violent or sexually explicit media
or
2. that it is all the parents fault - the sales, marketing and distribution of products has no responsibility or effect on product sales.
Now before introducing legislation, I'd like to see evidence that the voluntary agreements aren't working, biut legislation does have at least some things going for it.
- It is determined by the democratic process
- It isn't used as a marketing tool
though of course there are downsides as well.
Anvil - from the land of warm beer and mad cattle.
edit: their != there
This comment was edited on Dec 1, 07:35.
Anvil - from the land of warm beer and mad cattle.
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