Violent Appeals

by Steve Gibson, Sep 27, 2002 1:00pm PDT

Here's one for the gaming is good side. A group of international scholars on Wednesday filed a brief with federal appeals court hoping to strike down a St. Louis ordinance related to younger kids and violent games. The scholars came from places like MIT, UCLA, and London University.

In mid-April, a federal court in Missouri upheld a St. Louis County ordinance requiring parental consent for minors to purchase video games that depict graphic violence. [...] In May, a California congressman introduced a bill in the House of Representatives that would make it a federal crime to sell or rent video games showing violence, prostitution or drug use to anyone under the age of 17 without parental consent.

Amazingly after years of taking beatings it seems that computer games are getting a bit more support. It's always the crazy new thing that kids are doing blamed every generation it seems. Comic books, D&D, etc. Thanks /.

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Another story about violent games? Well this attempt at getting posts on the subject has failed. GJ!

Sep 27, 2002 9:25pm PDT

Another story about violent games? Well this attempt at getting posts on the subject has failed. GJ! : Goat Whore

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Remember that awful movie that Tom Hanks was in years ago about the evils of Dungeons & Dragons? I can't recall the name, but it was bad bad bad. In it, Hanks freaks out after becoming unable to discern reality from the fantasy world of D&D.

Pathetic.

Sep 27, 2002 1:37pm PDT

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- Yeah, "mazes and monsters". It was funny how they->friends had to help him from the top of the empire sta... : highlow
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I swear one day we're going to have to have a war of the smart people vs. the dumb people.

Sep 27, 2002 1:35pm PDT

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- let's get gwb out of office first eh? I don't wanna fight the leader of the largest army in the world ple... : jaga

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I had an interesting incident involving my sister and mw nephews. They were talking about how much they liked Diablo 1 and my sister chimes in,"That game has violence! Why don't you play that snowboarding game you have for the Playstation2?"

My reply was,"Oh that's good: instead of teaching them to take up arms against big evil monsters,you'd rather encourage them to hurtle down mountains on bits of wood at 60 miles an hour."

I'm glad I'm avoiding the parenting thing :)

Sep 27, 2002 2:31pm PDT

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I'm probably in the minority here, but I really don't see the big fuss about this law. Yeah, I agree that they don't cause violence, but parents should have a choice whether they want their kids playing them or not, no matter what their reasoning is.

I wouldn't be worried anyway, most parents are so apathetic that they would buy it anyway.

Sep 27, 2002 3:15pm PDT

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Funny how everything is to balme for bad kids except parents.

Sep 27, 2002 2:48pm PDT

Funny how everything is to balme for bad kids except parents. : RaZ0r

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In May, a California congressman introduced a bill in the House of Representatives that would make it a federal crime to sell or rent video games showing violence, prostitution or drug use to anyone under the age of 17 without parental consent.

I'd be very interested in what this congresscritter thinks the Constitutional authority for such a law would be. I'm looking over Article I Section 8, but I'm not seeing anything giving Federal Congress the power to set minimum ages for purchase, or any broader power that would encompass that. Furthermore, I'd bet that congresscritter never even considered the issue of Constitutional authority before proposing that ridculous law.

Sep 27, 2002 2:44pm PDT

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Studies about violence make me want to hit people.

Sep 27, 2002 2:03pm PDT

Studies about violence make me want to hit people. : nudel

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"It's always the crazy new thing that kids are doing blamed every generation it seems. Comic books, D&D, etc. Thanks /."

Consensual sex, Masturbation, Music, Dress style.

Sep 27, 2002 1:40pm PDT

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I have a hard time uderstanding this logic. They've done study after study, unsucessfully, trying to find some type of scapegoat link between violence and video games. Yet children are encouraged to play sports such as football, hockey, etc. and attend pro games. Hell, my memory is more jaded about professional sports injuries and fights rather than the violence in video games. I still wake up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat with images of that Joe Theisman leg break. Man, that was gnarly! wooo...

Sep 27, 2002 1:26pm PDT

I have a hard time uderstanding this logic. They've done study after study, unsucessfully, trying to find : PsYk0

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first!

about time we got some props.

Sep 27, 2002 1:08pm PDT

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