Censorship, Videogames, and the Media and the Family yearly report (full video link)

[A Black Falcon]

How's that going to attract more people to the post? First off, it's at the END of the post and they'd have to read through it to even see the attractor . Second off, it's not all that attractive to the sorts of people who go here. MOST of us, I'd like to think anyway, aren't the sort who gawk at various travesties saying in a sickeningly ironic way "how can anyone watch that?".

It's not. I'd rather try to make it a serious thread... I was just saying that I could have if I wanted to. :)

Anyway, as far as the clerks, they're CLERKS! These are people who just sorta show up and run the register. They honestly don't care at all about their jobs and their opinions are pretty meaningless. Make them legally responsible and then there's something.

But the thing is that they are the ones with the power to decide who gets the games and who doesn't, so their ignorance and biases reflect on a much wider scale than it otherwise would... some kind of a structure needs to be put in place that can make up for that without having government censorship of videogames. I'm afraid that if things don't change enough then we WILL end up like Austrailia, New Zealand, Germany, etc. and have a government bureau that decides which games are legal and which are illegal...

Heh heh, I remember reading about that at Fark. Good 'ol C-Span, what would we ever do without you?

I noticed it showed up on Fark, but that was a day after I watched it... as I said, this was in the middle of last week on TV. And as I said, with their webcasting you can now watch it anytime... for now at least... if you are so inclined. I'd say watch the whole thing once because it is worth hearing what the opinions of these people are on the subject. They have influence so they should be at least heard.

I know that this topic has been beaten to death, and beaten again after it's died, and then again the ground where its buried beaten as well, but still...

The difference is this one has a video. :)

Government censorship would be a disaster. I agree that a lot of these games are despicable, but like GR said censorship would only lead to more censorship, and pretty soon we'd end up like those poor blokes in Australia and England. If you don't censor hardcore porn then you have no right to censor Leisure Suit Larry!

I agree with that... I don't understand the rationale in countries like that. Things that bad are allowed in movies and music and stuff, why are games singled out unfairly? At least if Joe Lieberman had his way it'd be applied to all media formats... not better in the result (worse actually), but more balanced at least.