New York Gamers Take Action Against Bill
I received an email on Friday from Richard Taylor of the ESA alerting me to further game-related legal shenanigans going on in New York state. State senator Andrew Lanza has put forward a bill to use public tax money to investigate video games - specifically, to investigate statistics that we've already got, and also to mandate parental controls on all game consoles (which current-gen systems already implement, making the point moot) and requiring rated games to have a rating label on the package. Don't we already do that?
But of course we've already got these answers from the recent FTC report that proved that game retailers have an 80% success rate in preventing the sale of M-rated games to minors - far better than movie theatres do on R-rated films (65%) or retailers selling R-rated DVDs (53%).
So not only does Senator Lanza's bill needlessly stoke the flames of the violence-in-games debate, it's also redundant and wasteful. Which is why the Video Game Voters Network is mobilizing gamers and the rational-minded to write leaders in the state's assembly and senate.
Check out the VGVN site, where taking action against Lanza's wasteful self-promotion is as easy as a few keystrokes.
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Posted to Meet-Ups, Miscellany on 23 June 2008
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