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Michigan Senator Responds to Gamer Letters

Apr 26, 2006 06:02

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Comments 18

boffo97 April 26 2006, 11:33:36 UTC

And let me guess... all three got the same letters verbatim.

It isn't violence, stupid, it's the parenting. And expecting the United States government to be a nanny state will just make the parenting WORSE.

Re: There's an upside to all this... sir_bissel April 26 2006, 11:41:53 UTC

Youth aren't exposed to increasing amounts of parenting...

Re: There's an upside to all this... boffo97 April 26 2006, 13:38:37 UTC

A lot of them seem to be exposed to increasing amounts of bad parenting.

Then just because they happened to play games, that gets blamed instead.

ahem enmitywithin April 26 2006, 12:37:14 UTC

This study found that while efforts were being made... these products were still being marketed to minors... A follow-up FTC report, conducted at the request of Congress in 2001, found that the video game and motion picture industries had scaled back their targeting of minors in ads."

yeah, and what about violent movies? one particularly ULTRAVIOLENT movie, ultraviolet was only PG! I myself believe it should have been 14-A or PG-13 at least.

but of course you can't let seomething like FACTS get in the way now can you?

Re: ahem mrkenyon April 26 2006, 13:06:32 UTC

Ultraviolet? You mean that crappy "Vampire vs. the Red Cross" movie from a couple of months back? That was PG-13, man.

Re: ahem toxic_offender April 26 2006, 13:19:55 UTC

It may be PG in Canada... They lower the ratings like that over there. The "Aeon Flux" animated series was TV-MA in the USA, but it only got a PG over there. That sorta thing.

Re: ahem mrkenyon April 26 2006, 15:34:08 UTC

Well, that doesn't make much sense, to chastise an American Senator for the way Canadians rate movies.

And besides, Ultraviolet was NOT that violent. I've seen millions of things more violent and bloody than that crapfest.

Thread 7

At least he's acknowledging jabrwock April 26 2006, 15:37:33 UTC

That the industry is improving in it's self-regulation.

Although other than the fact that he says "Current video game ratings systems are managed by private companies", exactly the same as the motion picture ratings, I'm not sure where he stands on the issue.

Then again, if he's on the fence, at least he seems to be carefully examining both sides.

Hmm... catch_33 April 26 2006, 15:42:40 UTC

Following the Columbine High School shooting in 1999, attention was drawn to the increasing amount of violence to which youth are exposed.

Which is really sad, since that incident should have drawn much more attention to what happens when mentally unstable individuals [like Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold] go unnoticed and unchecked long enough for them to commit a violent act. But, the media wasn't going to get enough ratings that way, so, here we are. Fucking assholes.

Re: Hmm... goodrobotus April 27 2006, 01:47:20 UTC

What makes me laugh is when the News barrages people with images of a massacre on Prime Time TV whilst droneing on about the effect of media depicting scenes of violence and death....

Hippocrisy much?

Re: Hmm... catch_33 April 27 2006, 04:41:48 UTC

Tch. Yeah:

Are violent video games causing your kids to be more susceptible to violence? We'll explore that later. Now, for some redundant coverage on something terrible, but unsurprising, that happened in the Middle East.

Bastards. Fucking bastards.

A Little off topic, but... hadradi April 26 2006, 17:18:09 UTC

I do think its interesting that both of Arizona's Senators made the "best" list (although McCain was a given, Kyl wasn't). I do like all their picks (minus Teddy boy, of course).