Post: Clinton, Lieberman Plan to Introduce Federal Violent Video Game Bill
Clinton, Lieberman Plan to Introduce Federal Violent Video Game Bill
U.S. Senators Hillary Clinton (D-NY) and Joseph Lieberman (D-CT) announced this week that they plan to introduce a Federal bill addressing the public health threat posed by M- and AO-rated video games when Congress reconvenes later this month.
"I have developed legislation that will empower parents by making sure their kids can't walk into a store and buy a video game that has graphic, violent and pornographic content," Clinton said. "This is about protecting children."
The bill, dubbed the Family Entertainment Protection Act, would make it illegal to sell ultraviolent and sexually explicit video games to kids under the age of 17. Similar bills have already passed at the state level in California, Illinois and Michigan.
To read Clinton and Lieberman's press release on the Family Entertainment Protection Act, click here.
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Date: December 6, 2005
To the editors- regarding that "Violent Video Games and Our Kids: A Common Sense Approach" "fact" sheet, that part that says that the most popular occupation for females in video games is a prostitute is, in my opinion, such a big logical fallacy that it borders on the slanderous. As someone from the forum post on the link below (yes, that's the same ferrarimanf355 there, too) said when she learned about that Jack Thompson- like verbal low blow:
"I'm sure that Lara Croft, Joanna Dark, Princess Peach, Princess Daisy, Jade, Jill Valentine, Rebecca Chambers, Alexandria Roivas, Yuna Braska, Milla Vodello, and Aya Brea would be interested to know that they are all prostitutes in addition to explorers, secret agents, royalty, photographers, police officers, graduate students, summoners, and psychic school teachers."
The video game industry is still waiting for an apology.
Link: http://www.igda.org/Forums/showthread.php?s=4
Date: December 12, 2005
Eight myths about video games-debunked:
Link: http://www.pbs.org/kcts/videogamerevolution/i