Lieberman interview

[wviperw]

Have you read the Lieberman interview on Daily Radar yet? I am surprised he actually agreed to do the interview.

Ok, now don't flame me or anything but, I actually think he is somewhat right. Unless he is COMPLETELY lying about not wanting to completely ban games, it sounds like his ideas are ok. I think gamers have been a little defensive and overexaggerated a little. It seems as if his ideas are just misconstrued to mean that he wants all violent games to be put away. He just doesn't want kids to get a hold of them. I don't think he should be basing his argument off of tests though. Kids may get desensitized, but it's really the parents fault or the kid is seriously messed up. Leiberman's ideas are mostly right, but his ways of accomplishing his goal are wrong. A rating system won't really help, I think it is a broader problem.

What about you guys?

 

[wviperw]

wow, stuff get's pushed down fast in this forum...

 

[perry]

Got link?

 

[JellyBaby]

I feel Censorman would, if he had it within his power, ban all video games with any level of violence. The congressional report on violence was a fair and balanced document, however. I agreed with most of what they concluded and they do have solid points on how the hearts and minds of kids are being assaulted by idiodic marketing. But Censorman and his henchman have talked directly with stores like Sears and have asked them to take violent games completely off the shelves. I don't believe these stores have done this...yet.

 

[wviperw]

Sorry, here is the link. Leiberman Interview

 

[zippy]

I agree with him too, though to an extent. 5 year olds should not be playing UT or Q3a or Half Life. Shows like the Ninja Turtles cartoons show the difference between good and evil and are beneficial in some cases. In fact, my neighbors, whose kids I babysit sometimes, hate the movie Star Wars: Episode One, but they really don't mind it for their kids because the kids relate to the "good guys" and see the difference between good and bad. However, Q3a and UT is potentially detrimental as it shows that everyone is bad and that everyone deserves to be fragged and that it has a great deal of blood and gore. UT and Q3a should only be in the hands of people who can handle it.

Maybe it should be that you have to be 14 or older to buy gory games or games with a mature rating or have parents buy the game? Almost like a PG-13 rating in movies, only 14, because honestly, at 13 its a big transition period between being a little kid and more mature.

I won't agree with Lieberman if he talks to stores about COMPLETELY banning games of that nature. We don't want to break the first amendment or go back to the Medieval days and the Enlightenment where the Church and State censored anything and everything that crossed their views.

Hell, I love a gory game, Rogue Spear, but its an anti-terrorism game and there are no limbs and blood flying all over the place!

Just my two pennies.