Being labelled as "The Video Game Health Labelling Act of 2009", a Californian Congressman wants all games rated Teen (13+) and higher to have "Cigarette-Like" warnings on the front of the box. The congressman, who has been known for targeting video games in the past said the following:
The video game industry has a responsibility to parents, families, and to consumers – to inform them of the potentially damaging content that is often found in their products. They have repeatedly failed to live up to this responsibility. Meanwhile research continues to show a proven link between playing violent games and increased aggression in young people. American families deserve to know the truth about these potentially dangerous products. We must hold the video game industry accountable and do everything in our power to ensure parents are aware of the detrimental effects that violent games can have before making decisions on which games are appropriate for their children to play. I am proud to introduce the Video Game Health Labelling Act of 2009, and am hopeful my legislation can work to stop the growing influence of violent media on America’s children and youth.
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azn_kvn69 said: That would be destroying the main point of video games.
TomStones said: I would hate it if the game cases actually did look the that
DaveCage said: the News could be just as halmful
s4m1ul said: DaveCage said: blaming video games for the violence and issue that the US has is just trying the place blame elsewhere the News could be just as halmful as can the things on TVs and or movies do they have these BS stickers on the front... no, and knowing how happy the US and there Residents are to go after a stupid idea, this will probably be deemed a sucess and be implemented elsewhere violence has been around alot longer than video games, so find another scapegoat gdmatt said: I hope that the Australian government doesn't get any ideas, they are already planning on filtering the internet, how much more control do they need? the internet filtering idea was shot down before christmas, none of the ISP's would take it on, and only Optus is going to do limited trials I just HAD to be with optus...
s4m1ul said:
DaveCage said: blaming video games for the violence and issue that the US has is just trying the place blame elsewhere the News could be just as halmful as can the things on TVs and or movies do they have these BS stickers on the front... no, and knowing how happy the US and there Residents are to go after a stupid idea, this will probably be deemed a sucess and be implemented elsewhere violence has been around alot longer than video games, so find another scapegoat gdmatt said: I hope that the Australian government doesn't get any ideas, they are already planning on filtering the internet, how much more control do they need? the internet filtering idea was shot down before christmas, none of the ISP's would take it on, and only Optus is going to do limited trials
DaveCage said: blaming video games for the violence and issue that the US has is just trying the place blame elsewhere the News could be just as halmful as can the things on TVs and or movies do they have these BS stickers on the front... no, and knowing how happy the US and there Residents are to go after a stupid idea, this will probably be deemed a sucess and be implemented elsewhere violence has been around alot longer than video games, so find another scapegoat
gdmatt said: I hope that the Australian government doesn't get any ideas, they are already planning on filtering the internet, how much more control do they need?
ICC_06 said: This will fail lol
ICC_06 said: This is probably the same douche that wanted a warning about alcopops use on games, then he realised there are no games containing references alcopops. Basically this happens a lot, and nothing ever happens with it.