Governator says California game law will be back
If this thing is going to make a second pass, it might be time to take a quick refresher course on AB 1179. The bill would put another layer of California red tape on top of the ESRB's rating system. Any game deemed "violent" would have a big ol' 18 sticker on it and retailers would be fined $1000 for selling it to minors. Although this does sound perfectly reasonable, it essentially deems certain games on the level of porn and just irks First Amendment advocates. Also, let's not even open up the Pandora's box of irony that Arnold Schwarzenegger is the figurehead on this -- how many of you saw T2 for the first time underage in the theater?
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Arnie does try to get several intitiatives/measures passed. A couple years ago, the voters struck down each and every one of them.
i watched terminator 1/2 and most of his other movies back when i was like 12
and how violent is "violent"? mario? jumping on goombas?
and like yesterday's story about this mentioned, the taxpayers are the ones shafted with the bill every time a law like this is found unconstitutional (which it is)
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I still find it amusing being "carded" in best buy by some pimpled faced kid.
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"You means I gots ta parent may kid mahself? Isn't that wats tha govment for? I cant be spendin mah time showin em rite and rong. They never listen to me anyways. Bein a parent is too hard. Someone else do it."
Hmm. I guess that's why we gotta take away more of our liberties.
You need to watch the beginning of the movie "idiocracy". You'll love it.
I'm also looking at you, Bloomberg....
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I think this is a decent idea that will get parents involved in to what their child is really buying, provided the rating is supervised by a decent board and not slapped on to everything. I can only think of a handful of games that would fall in to this category.
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โThe bill I signed would require that violent video games be clearly labeled and not be sold to children under 18 years old.โ
We have thatโฆitโs called the fucking ESRB!
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It is the responsibility of the parents to raise the kids. While a don't mind a rating system to help parents catergorize the different content, making laws to criminalize mature video games like they are cigarettes or booze is crap.
It isn't even the laws themselves as much as the way these liberal a-holes push their laws. They talk about games as if they are proven to cause youth violence and murders, when really they are just using it as a political platform and scapegoat to reach out to chicken shit cowardly parents across America.
I am so sick of America attacking all personal freedoms that religious conservatives and ultra-liberal pussies don't personally partake in. Our government is fucking up our country with wars, corrupt politicians, laws that continue to cyphon all of our wealth to the richest 0.1% of Americans, welfare, an eroding educational system, unfair trade laws, selling out our nation to foreign entities, etc. Yet they act like our little personal freedoms like being able to buy a video game or drink or smoke or watch porn without some huge stigma or law attached to it is something we should worry about. It is such bullshit. They fuck us over daily and try to blame the problems of our kids on things like video games. Maybe it is that the parents are too stressed out working in an economy that continues to squeeze everything the lower and middle classes have into the pockets of the wealthy to have time and emotional resources to invest into their children's mental development.
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http://www.dsfanboy.com/2007/07/24/face-training-commercials-totally-freak-us-out/
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There will, of course, always be parents giving in to their pushy 10 year olds and buying Manhunt for them for their birthday, but at least the responsibility would lie with the parents, rather than the games industry.
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Most people on here are of teh "Let Parents do their jobs" mentality. Yet, the same posters are here blasting Arnie and saying "I saw there movies when I was 12."
Clearly your parents wern't doing their jobs when you were 12 if not you wouldn't seen these movies..
See where I'm going with this?
Parenting is a lot of give and take. You want to keep your child from experiencing what might be too intense or scarey for them however you also don't really want to shelter them from the world either. Kids have to grow gradually, not experience a massive culture shock of violence and sex at age 18.
At the end of the day, parents know their kids best. They need to sit down, gauge the content and make a decision. I know I do for my 3 year old.
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I'd have to read more though. Does this bill make it a crime to buy your child a game rated 18+? (Much in the way that it's illegal to buy your kid pr0n or liquor) or is it still just a suggestion (for the parents) and a crime for the store to sell it?
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I personally thing they're right to want to be able to do this.
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The bill seems fine to me, it's not like some of those bills which would outlaw all games for everyone.
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While it won't stop parents from obliviously buying the violent games for their kids (Store clerk: "But ma'am, in this game you rape hookers, then kill them and ride off in your stolen car!" Mom: "He'll love it!"), it's a step in the right direction.
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Many parents today will only pay attention if they see a commercial during Deal or No Deal.
~The more you know
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Of course, that was in the Uk.. and here it is already illegal to sell adult games and movies to minors.
Seems hypocritical coming from schwa-chan though.
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