Educator Group Calls For B.C. Game Ban

[Xan Krieger]

"Protect our children from second-hand smoke"? Who does that? I remember as a kid riding around with my mother who would smoke and keep the windows up.

OT: Just a new group trying to restrict freedom, just like Jack Thompson, let them scream and ignore them till they shrivel up and die from lack of attention.

In Canada you cant smoke in a car with children.

Well my pastor can never go there then. could be worse, could be like New York
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06​/22/health/policy/22smoke.html
My question to that state is that since everyone there has been deemed by the government to be 3 years old when is the state mandated nap time?

 

[frehls]

hue

 

[4173]

In a roundabout way, this has inspired an interesting question in me. Should* Gamestop (or whomever) have demos of M rated games set up in stores?


*as a matter of conscience, nothing to do with law

 

[Iron Lightning]

God, they keep popping out of the woodwork. You've got to wonder if these people think everyone who isn't them is a serial killing rapist, really...

Hey! I may be a serial killing rapist but at least I'm not trying to take everyone's video games away. That would just be mean.

 

[shadowslayer81]

Good God, will these people ever go away?

Ugh, let them have their little rallies, let them have their petitions, let them think they will save the world; nothing will change, that's how it has been, that's how it's going to be.

This pops up every week or so now, do they pay attention to the things that they are trying to stop? Because they would realize very quickly that they are a dime a dozen and probably go quiet real quick-like.

 

[Username Redacted]

"As summer vacation has started, children are particularly at risk for increased exposure to the violence celebrated in many of the video games which are commonly available for sale in local stores, and at video arcades," the letter says. "Significant research has been conducted to determine the effects of violence in video games and many of the results indicate short-term and even long-term behavioral and attitudinal changes in those who play these games."

Wait a goddamn minute. BC has arcades? I live near major cities (Washington D.C. and Baltimore) on the East Coast and the nearest arcade to me, as best as I can tell, is 3 hours drive away. Screw you too Canada.

 

[crimsonshrouds]

The more i see these kind of people the more my sanity slips and my reaction is this...

 

[Jason Danger Keyes]

It's annoying that we have to deal with these people now, but the day will come when they're all dead and our generation has all the political power, and the understanding that video games don't turn people into drooling rapists.

 

[Epona]

"In the same way that we protect our children from secondhand smoke, we believe there would be a benefit from a ban on violent or sexually explicit games wherever children under 16 may be present and that the sale of these items should be tightly controlled,"

Remember folks, one witchhunt can be used to justify another.

 

[Tiger Sora]

This will go over about as well as it did in California.
Besides these kids they want to protect can't buy the 18/M games. Their parents do. And whatever they decide is right for their child is what should be followed. Unless I'm unaware of abunch of 16 year olds and younger running around with fake ID's and beards and buying games and beer. But I don't think thats the case.

 

[Dr. wonderful]

Oh goody, another group of crackpots that want to ban or restrict video-games...

You know... if they say that video games make gamers violent, let's use their logic against them.

So, if video games make gamers violent, let's take a look at the most evil man in history.
Adolf Hitler.

He really liked classical music, he was a fan of Wagner and we all know Carl Orff was also on that side.

So, does that mean that everyone that listens to classical music is a neo-nazi?

He also like sugar [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HitlerAteSugar].

 

[Sinclair Solutions]

Well, B.C., from your friend in America, let me just say: "Your turn."

 

[MASTACHIEFPWN]

Greetings super dumbass women educators!
We are the voice of freedom- And we have some things to say.

Games are art. Like it or not. They might not be as famous as the works of michealagalo or Davinche, but look across at the forms of mass media.

(Atleast here in the United states) a majority of teens spend their time listining to the rapping of terrible role models, about drugs, sex, and other bad things. Their are R rated movies everywhere, and videogames are no diffirent from music, TV, movies, or standard art.

These people are doing this out of blind ignorance, and can't seem to see that freedom shows itself in MANY ways.

 

[Hal10k]

Good god, they have infected Canada too.

Although we tend to have less of the political theater when it comes to video games and media than the U.S., so I'm fairly confident it's not going to get much of anywhere..

I just wanted to say that I love it when somebody's avatar perfectly syncs up with what they write.

OT: As long as we have people, we will have ill-imformed nutjobs. Are we really going to act surprised at this?

 

[Gyron]

And let's not forget that Bioware is based in British Columbia. They tend to make violent and (kind of not really) sexually explicit games.

Actually, Bioware is in Edmonton, Alberta. EA Sports, Relic and THQ Canada are based in BC.

And I feel really sorry for my friends back in BC that might have to deal with this shite.

 

[TonyVonTonyus]

Wow, hardcore educators that happen to come from the Canadian equivalent of California saying that video games are bad? Next you'll tell me they're also part of some sort of evangelical group that frowns upon anything that differs slightly from what constituted "acceptable" back in the 1950s.

I may sound like a broken record but I'm just tired of people saying something along the lines of "violent video games create violent people". It's not video games that make people violent it's other people. Believe me, for several years I've considered going on a rampage and it definately was NOT videogames that make me want to. It's usually ignorant, self righteous people that involve themselves in other people affairs and tell me how to live my life.

 

[Dragunai]

Get these women laid so they can stop trying to ruin the lives of people who have built an entire industry employing millions of people from the shop clerks in Gamestation and Game Stop, up to the programmers and developers of the titles they sell.

Don't people like the P.T.C and these women who are clearly just rejects from a very poor American college movie understand that videogames already HAVE 100,000 systems in place to make sure that kids don't play shit they shouldn't without their holier than thou approach of thinking their opinion out weighs everyone else's.

Sick of this crap.

Well, B.C., from your friend in America, let me just say: "Your turn."

*sigh* in agreement... just *sigh*

 

[Braedan]

Oh fuck! It's spreading from 'merica!

If this goes through then they ban in other parts of the country (like Alberta) I'll think about just pirating the games and mailing the dev's a cheque. Course it ain't gunna happen... but still...

 

[Blatherscythe]

As a resident of British Columbia, my reaction is thusly...

Spoiler

However, I highly doubt anything will come of this. The provincial government is getting enough flak without the youth taking arms against them.

Don't worry, you can cheer up just by looking outside the window in B.C.

O: When will these idiots give up or leave? And was anyone else having their skin crawl when she said "for the good of the public"?

 

[Macgyvercas]

"As summer vacation has started, children are particularly at risk for increased exposure to the violence celebrated in many of the video games which are commonly available for sale in local stores, and at video arcades," the letter says. "Significant research has been conducted to determine the effects of violence in video games and many of the results indicate short-term and even long-term behavioral and attitudinal changes in those who play these games." (Mac EDIT: No they bloody do not)

"In the same way that we protect our children from secondhand smoke, we believe there would be a benefit from a ban on violent or sexually explicit games wherever children under 16 may be present and that the sale of these items should be tightly controlled," it continues. "Please help families keep their children from the negative effects of violent and sexually explicit video games by legislating strict rules regarding the sale and the use of these items."

Good god, do you think she said "children" enough?

Andy, tell me what you think this proposal: Anyone found using the "Think of the children" arguement shall be sentenced to a week in solitary confinement and fed on on dry bread and water during that time.