• Why You Should Care About Today's Supreme Court Case. - Violent games to minors.
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[QUOTE=Pepin;25819716]This isn't censorship, it is simply prohibiting children from purchasing material they aren't supposed to be. Even more so, it is putting in a consequence for retailers that do still allow underage people to buy M rated video games. I can imagine that many stores sell M rated games to minors and this is a way of preventing that. To make a little comparison, I can assume that if there was no legal consequence for selling alcohol to a minor that there would a good number of people who could buy alcohol although they are underage. Putting in the law that stops most of that. Anyway, terrible article.[/QUOTE] The difference is that alcohol is both illegal and harmful, while no studies have ever linked video games with violent behavior, and the ESRB is not a government organization, so they shouldn't be allowed to act as such. I'm fine with ratings on boxes, but let parents judge if the game is appropriate for their child.
People make a big deal about how it's "so wrong" to not sell games to minors, yet nobody makes a big deal out of movie theaters doing pretty much the exact same thing. If you're underage just get an adult to buy it. Not that big of a deal. I did that the entire time. Hell, me and my dad would sometimes argue about what game to get because he would want a different one. If you have one of those parents that go "video games are bad" then that's not the rating systems fault, that's your parents fault. If you can't convince your parents that video games are fine then that's still an issue with your parents and not the rating system itself. None of this is preventing freedom of speech or any of that crap. That has nothing to do with this. You don't see film directors suing movie theaters because there's an R rating on the film.
There's no law saying kids can't see R movies, so I'm going to be sad if we decide that kids can't buy M games. It should be up to the parents, not the government.
Gamestores selling +16/+18 games to minors happens everywhere, of the 17 gamestores i know, only 1 checks for my ID.
[QUOTE=Nyaos;25824705]There's no law saying kids can't see R movies, so I'm going to be sad if we decide that kids can't buy M games. It should be up to the parents, not the government.[/QUOTE] yes there is.
[QUOTE=ToXiCsoldier;25824736]Gamestores selling +16/+18 games to minors happens everywhere, of the 17 gamestores i know, only 1 checks for my ID.[/QUOTE] [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Association_of_America_film_rating_system[/url] While there's no exact "law", most theaters enforce the rating system. It's more like if a theater doesn't enforce it, then you'll get a bunch of parents complaining about it. While it may not be a law, it's basically required for their public image.
Public image be damned!
[QUOTE=ZekeTwo;25820888]"I sat at the back of the bus so I hope the asshole next generation does too" said Rosa Parks Wait no she didn't[/QUOTE] Are you seriously making that comparison?
This ruling wouldn't affect me anyway. [QUOTE=jeimizu;25824166]The difference is that alcohol is both illegal and harmful, while no studies have ever linked video games with violent behavior, and the ESRB is not a government organization, so they shouldn't be allowed to act as such. I'm fine with ratings on boxes, but let parents judge if the game is appropriate for their child.[/QUOTE] [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobo_doll_experiment[/url]
So why doesn't everyone care that you have to be 17 to get into an R rated movie?
Who cares we won! :smug: those justices fucked the lawyer in the asshole [i][b]all at the same time[/b][/i]
I have every GTA game every made for the PS2. I play AssaultCube, Combat Arms, DOOM and Wolfenstein:Enemy Territory. But apparently I'm gonna kill us all because I saw some guy doing it in GTA:SA and "Because it looked fun" Ever been arrested in GTA games? Lose some money, lose armor, lose weapons? Not lookin fun.
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