Wednesday, March 15, 2006
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I, personally, have always viewed schoolyard violence as a microcosm for the world at large. Fights happen, people get bullied, get used to it.
That isn't the focus of the issues here, however. Is it up to the video game company to control the material that they release, or is it up to society to fucking control the media their kids consume?
Should we lobby every convienence store in the nation because they carry nude magazines? Or should we maybe stop selling them to minors?
On the other hand, Tim Absath has some feedback regarding censorship by government bodies over at Ctrl-Alt-Delete which is also extremely relevant.
In my opinon, we should be using the rating system as identical to movies. MSRB is close, but we should go the extra step and make them the same. No excuses at that point and the blame will lay with the people that need to have it on them, and the world (in this case, the game developers) can continue to express themselves freely.
I, personally, have always viewed schoolyard violence as a microcosm for the world at large. Fights happen, people get bullied, get used to it.
That isn't the focus of the issues here, however. Is it up to the video game company to control the material that they release, or is it up to society to fucking control the media their kids consume?
Should we lobby every convienence store in the nation because they carry nude magazines? Or should we maybe stop selling them to minors?
On the other hand, Tim Absath has some feedback regarding censorship by government bodies over at Ctrl-Alt-Delete which is also extremely relevant.
In my opinon, we should be using the rating system as identical to movies. MSRB is close, but we should go the extra step and make them the same. No excuses at that point and the blame will lay with the people that need to have it on them, and the world (in this case, the game developers) can continue to express themselves freely.
