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Help Defend Video Games In The Supreme Court!
jhocking:
Yeah I get that, which is why I said:
--- Quote from: jhocking on 15 Aug 2010, 08:02 ---The laws just don't crack down as hard because, like, movies aren't 50% porn.
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In other words, they don't have to legislate sales of R movies to minors because people don't sell R movies to minors. The same is not true for videogames however, so I'm thinking a slap in the face might make everyone pay more attention.
(Incidentally, I've always found it hypocritical the harshness of our laws toward porn while having relatively lax attitudes toward violence, but that's not the main issue here.)
And again, my overall stance on this matter is that I very much support videogames as a means of expression, and am dismayed by a lot of the reactionary moralizing about videogames. At the same time however I see the industry as having almost totally dropped the ball on doing anything worthwhile with this medium, so I would tentatively support this law on the basis of it would motivate the game industry to improve and eventually be able to strike down the law.
In one of his articles Chris Crawford pointed out how the movie industry wins a lot of legitimacy by producing a wide breadth of content, whereas the games industry is very narrowly focused. As he put it, "Koyaanisqatsi played just down the road from Debbie Does Dallas."
This image from of all places Cracked.com sums up what I'm getting at:
Johnny C:
--- Quote from: Nodaisho on 14 Aug 2010, 20:06 ---
--- Quote from: Johnny C on 14 Aug 2010, 01:37 ---i mean it doesn't stop kids from getting cigarettes or alcohol so if a kid wants gears of war 3 in the state of california really bad i'm sure he can finagle a copy somehow. he did before it was literally a law.
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Just because you can bypass a law doesn't mean we should accept shitty laws.
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what's shitty about this law though
jhocking:
Incidentally, anyone who's too cheery on the game industry should really consider people within the industry have been beating against the narrowness of focus pretty much continuously for decades. The specific article from Chris Crawford that I referenced was written in 2003, and just a few days ago Escapist released this video:
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/extra-credits/1923-Innovation
Clearly the industry will never change unless forced to.
Ozymandias:
It's just a dangerous precedent, man. It's saying the government has the ability to legislate content for an entire medium. I mean, look at how well that's working for the industry in Australia, yeah?
jhocking:
It is a dangerous precedent, that's very true. Personally I wish this hadn't gone to the Supreme Court so quickly, so the law could actually be in effect for a while before the big fight to repeal it, but oh well it is what it is.
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