ya know, one of the bill sponsors, Rep. Jeff Johnson - who is himself running for AG - had a video that he showed a Senate hearing a while back. I'm trying to think of the games he showed... one obscure one was Clock Tower 3.
the other were.... bah! ...I'll have to look them up. Someone must be feeding AG Hatch this info, probably from that video.
It's hardly worthless speech, i don't know how anyone could say that,I've seen worse stuff in movies,it looks like this guy's been huffin from the JT Bullshit bag, I really think these people should actually play some videogames before condemning them, i mean how much crap do they have to spout before they confront the thing that they seem to know little to nothing about.
Which, I think, proves beyond the slightest shadow of a doubt three things...
1) This man has never gone into a cinema in the last 20 years 2) This man has never played computer games. 3) This man has yet to realise that the entire reason the constitution was drawn up was to protect against people like him who try to place 'levels of value' on Freedom depending on his own personal opinion.
Until the current generation of politicians die out and we can get some gamers in office, video games are not going to get ANY respect in the mainstream. This is the same thing comic books, Elvis, and D&D went through; the older generation, the one in power, didn't grow up with these things. Therefore, they don't understand them, so they come to the conclusion that the First Amendment does not apply to that medium, and thus they feel the need to restrict it out of fear that it may give their children messages that differ from theirs. Like George Santanyawa said: "Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it."
Well that's that.jaykaosJuly 22 2006, 16:42:39 UTC
He's pretty much screwed about half of the argument anti-video game people have, specifically the "video games aren't speech" stuff. Now the only thing he has to fall back is the "harmful to minors" bit, which can never really stand up in the face of the court. So long Minnesota game law.
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the other were.... bah! ...I'll have to look them up. Someone must be feeding AG Hatch this info, probably from that video.
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...but no mention of defecation. I guess that's a cut scene Johnson is referring to about the little girl getting smashed... dunno, never played it.
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1) This man has never gone into a cinema in the last 20 years
2) This man has never played computer games.
3) This man has yet to realise that the entire reason the constitution was drawn up was to protect against people like him who try to place 'levels of value' on Freedom depending on his own personal opinion.
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