Video Game Law in USA

ZLD · 2011-06-28T03:28:15+00:00

Since no one post this yet... Short Summary: There was a California Law that aim to prevent violent video games from being sell to children. Detail of the law (in short): "The bill sought to ban the sale or rental of "violent video games" to children. A "violent" game was defined as a "game in which the range of options available to a player includes killing, maiming, dismembering, or sexually assaulting an image of a human being." Under the law, retailers that sold such games would be subject to a $1,000 fine. The bill would also have required "violent" video games to bear a two-inch-by-two-inch sticker with a "solid white '18' outlined in black" on their front covers. That's more than twice the size of the labels that currently adorn game-box covers and display the familiar Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) rating." (excerpt from an article on Gamespot.com) Argument for the law (from my perspective): violent is bad for children, corrupted the youth mind and turn them into gansters, psycho killer, murderer etc etc blah blah blah....putting a stricter collar on the game industry will help keep our children law abiding citizen, that make parents prouds. Argument againts the law (from my perspective): the game industry has the right of free speech, to express video game however they like it. Even if it involve a freakishly buff man spliting a puny mercenary in half with guts and blood spilling everywhere. The Supreme Court Decision: The law was declare unconstitutional because while kids should propally spend their time reading shakespear and figure out how to make new source of renewable energy and bring in world peace, having them jump into an interactive virtual world where they can maim and kill other humanoid is constitutioanlly OK! My rat ass opinion: The law is pointless and stupid anyway because there already been a system to prevent children from buying anything involve blood and maiming. It call the ESRB rating. The reason why you see a 10 years old kid playing Resident Evil and blowing a zombie head off with a shotgun and giggle about it. It because their parents are too lazy to read the damn ESRB label, and in many occasion ignore the sale clerk warning of the material in the game. And these lazy parent want the law to step in and do their job for them. My message to the PARENT!: Do your responsibility as a parents and watch your kid. Stop making your problem affect everyone because you can't stand up to the repsonsibility. No Offense to the good parent out there. Keep up the good work.

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Ethil

13 years ago

I can not, since it was from a third party source, so it might be a mistake. So please, carry on. Still, chances that it passes should be slim.

Oh, and it doesn't really matter to me since I dun live in the US. Yaaay~~

HokutoCorpse

13 years ago

This wont pass. If it does I swear I'm moving to Canada or somewhere

7fb39b11d83cb29ea2fb645ce

13 years ago

This bill is like the most retarded shit ever, im sure it wont pass.

12Dragons

13 years ago

That I actually don't mind, as long as it doesn't get banned for adults as well.

Kadushy Douchebag

13 years ago

Even if the law is passed, it's not gonna make any difference on what games people play. Beside, I went to a local Gamestop last year to buy a game and as I was waiting in line to pay, a worker asked this lady (looks 40+) to take out her ID because she was buying a rated M game. I was like "what?"

dormente

13 years ago

This has been called the Schwarzenegger v. EMA (Electronic Merchant Association). It started in 2005 and has been ruled unconstitutional by the supreme court since then. An earlier hearing was on Nov 20, 2010 I believe.

Apparently violent games can trigger young children into committing violence. Numerous articles online say that the Schwarzenegger side had several proofs linking violent games and youth violence. The only problem is several of the proofs have no citations and have been considered not credible.

IMO, when they used POSTAL and Counter-Strike as source of violence ,especially during the Virginia Tech incident, has dumbstruck me. In the end, video games was still ruled out as a source of violence upon investigation by the police.

The music industry is also chipping in to the cause of EMA as they believe that if the bill was passed, it could bleed out into the music industry and be abused. "Violent music is the source of youth violence".....something feels rather similar here.

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