CrazyHaircut94 said:
Someone should really ask that person how the video game had anything to do with it.
It's politics. Understand that your seeing this more and more frequently because we have people like Hillary Clinton and Barak Obama in office right now. Generally speaking both of these people want tighter goverment control over the media, and getting people to surrender that freedom for their own protection has been an agenda for a while.
You can find less connecting Obama to such things, he has mostly attacked on the grounds of video games causing other problems (it's the fault of games that everyone is fat!), but Hillary has been involved going back as far as things like the Hot Coffee contreversy. Politicians on both sides of the political fence have hit this horse for attention from time to time, but Hillary in paticular has been paticularly venemous. Obama appointed her, and I have no doubts at all that despite her actual position her organization/supporters (referred by many as "Clintonistas", behind her and Bill) has a lot to do with this stuff. We're going to have to endure it for a couple more years at least.
As I said before the last elections, as a gamer be careful who you vote for. Really, while I wasn't posting much on The Escapist, I saw this one coming miles away as soon as Hillary stopped disputing Obama's primaries victim in exchange for an appointment to avoid dividing the democratic party. I'm generally a right winger, but that was one of the things (among others) that prevented me from considering going cross party. Simply put I consider her to be more or less insane, and an appointed "cabinet" type position has given some oomph to her positions. Granted it's not as bad as if she was president herself, but bad enough, and she DOES have the support of her party in addition to her own supporters.
A lot of people are going to hate me for that (read about who was involved in the actual Hot Coffee thing though), but understand this isn't about common sense. It's a political crusade. A lot of those who would give Hillary (or Obama) positive press are the same people who are going to connect as much as possible to their pet issues. If nothing else understand that a lot of reporters dream about getting the attention of a big time politico for covering a pet issue in a way that they like. For all comments about the press existing to criticize politicians and the goverment, a lot can be said about who gets to be invited to cover events, or attend White House/Capitol Hill luncheons and everything else. Catching the eye of a successful or well known politician one way or another can guarantee a career. Thus pet issues of those in power are in vogue.
At least that is how I see things.
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While not connected to the people above, also understand that none of this is anything new. Plenty of politicians on BOTH sides of the fence have used the media and it's alleged effects on children as a political tool and attacked various things.
We all know about the whole "comics code authority" thing and how the comic industry was basically kept from serious writing for a good long while due to political persecution. It didn't end until some writers decided to basically buck the comics code (independant, sort of like the ESRB) and fire back at the politicians. One of the big things I am thinking of when I talk about how the industry itself needs to stand up to the politicians and censors. If they do, in the end they will win.
A more closer issue thematically though would be the whole "Video Nasties" thing which started in the UK and moved into the US a bit. This back during the golden age of horror films featuring gore, and titties in the 1980s. Basically some rigid British politicians decided to go the way of the Michael Atkinson (who is a current version, almost a cookie cutter cut out actually... albeit with a differant issue) decided that violent and sexy movies were responsible for all of society's ills, especially involving children. Thus a huge list was compiled and everything on it was basically banned. It eventually ended when the industry decided to finally man up and stand up to them.
At any rate all of this rambling (in response to the post in general, not just the person I'm responding to) gets to one point. If your curious check out the following link and you'll notice a lot of similarities between what is going on now, and what has happened before with movies. It's pretty easy to see what's going on when you put it in this kind of context.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_nasties
Interestingly you'll notice that includes a full list of 1980s movies that made "the list". It's good for some lulz because you have probably seen a few of these, and in many cases probably didn't think they were that bad.
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