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happybirthdaygelatin:
"House Bill 2178 proposes to hold the makers and sellers of violent video games liable if someone under 17 years old commits a crime, due in any part, to playing the game."

Now being 23 I have to say I would not be upset over this bill passing.  I'd just feel befuddled.  The business aspect of it had never occured to me till I read this though.

"There's a very strong video game industry in this state that we want to support. We don't want to bring undo attention to an area where there's actually jobs being created, where there's actually some good economic development in our state"

Empty Friend:
That is so very completely and totally idiotic it is beyond reason.  I'm with exactly what the opponents say.  It's basically saying it's ok to do shit because you're too much of an impressionable F***head to understand a videogame that isn't even meant for you is just a videogame.  Completely removes accountability.  I won't even get into the culpable/non-culpable ignorance schpeal. GAH.

So Much Angry... Just.

GalacticCmdr:
I was expecting to see this was nothing more than a Urban Legend, but it looks like the Washington (state not DC) Congress is going to at least put this to a floor vote. I personally doubt this will get anywhere - there is big money in the software trade in the PacNW.

happybirthdaygelatin:
No shit, passing this would be Washington shooting it self in the economic foot, what with two of three major console companies having their corporate offices in the state.  I think microsoft also moved a couple of the developers they absorbed out here as well.

Digs:
It'll never fly. It implies a massive probative supervision over every copy of every M-class game sold, which is impossible and offencive on lots of levels, or a similarly disgusting but more randomized breach of privacy. Ridiculous. You can watch over the sale of widespread products, but not the use. It'd be like trying to outlaw sugar. Eighteenth Amendment kind of stuff.

Not the sort of thing that warrants wasted funds.

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