Parents Group Denounces Supreme Court Decision
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My thoughts exactly.Drummie666 said:
I personally don't know any CHILD who has 70$ to put on a game. If the parents can't be arsed to take an interest in what their child does, it's their problem, not the EVIL games industry's.
Bravo my good sir, I gotta remind myself to send you more 'Umad" pictures later.Mr. Omega said:[HEADING=1]U Mad?[/HEADING]
In all seriousness, I find it ironic that they are saying "The government has taken awawy the parent's power to buy their games!" When the entire point of the law was for the government to be able to decide what games kids can and can't buy. So in reality, their argument is "PARENTS have to do the parenting? That's the government's job!"
But what you said was right.
Parents needs to act like g*ddamn parents. They could of built parent teaching programs but nooooooooooo.
Go ahead and denounce it all you want; your voice isn't Law and your propaganda is still based on an incredibly weak argument.
I might be a little biased, but I disagree with the PTC. They seem like they want the Government to take the role of the parent. As opposed to the actual parent, of course.
Well, I was gonna make a post quoting that, but you've summed up my feelings on the matter pretty well.Drummie666 said:
If you need the law to keep your kids from getting their hands on video games that you don't approve of there's only a couple of reasons I can think of.
1) Your kids get them from their friends and you can't stop them. (Ie, take the goddamn games away.)
2) You buy their games without bothering to read what the hell you're buying.
3) Your spouse is doing #2, and you don't try to stop them.
All three of those point to: Stop being an irresponsible adult and lay down the law with your kids, if you can't then you have no business being a parent. Take some responsibility for what you allow and shut the hell up about this crap already.
Alright, Ted. Fair enough. Or, and this is just a thought, you and the other members of the PTC can act like fucking parents!Greg Tito said:
Jesus Christ, people, I don't see why this is such a hard concept for some of these folks to grasp. You are a parent, and the only person accountable for what your child is exposed to is you. Not the games industry, not the government, you. You wouldn't take your seven-year-old to the midnight screening of the new Saw movie that they're probably going to release at Halloween this year out of common fucking sense, so why don't you apply that same principle to not buying the little guy a copy of Black Ops so he learn six dozen new racial slurs online that he's able to share with everyone at school the next day?
I'm sorry, guys, but I got tired of this nonsense and idiocy long ago. This jackassery is what lead to Schwarzenegger waltzing up to the Supreme Court with this proposal in the first damn place. Video games are not "toys", their a media on par with television and movies, and in line with that not all games are appropriate for small children. Why some people can't seem to wrap their feeble, atrophied minds around that very simple concept is just beyond me.
"This ruling replaces the authority of parents with the economic interests of the videogame industry. With no fear of any consequence for violating the videogame industry's own age restriction guidelines, retailers can now openly, brazenly sell games with unspeakable violence and adult content even to the youngest of children," Winter said.
http://site.video-game-central.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/ggn_3ds_warning_think-of-the-children.jpg
a) i feel like this will be the most quoted statement in the thread.
b) it's store policy that if, for whatever reason, you're not completely satisfied, i hate you.
it's time to man up, america.
http://site.video-game-central.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/ggn_3ds_warning_think-of-the-children.jpg
a) i feel like this will be the most quoted statement in the thread.
b) it's store policy that if, for whatever reason, you're not completely satisfied, i hate you.
it's time to man up, america.
It sounds more like the lazy parents group to me. They want the government to regulate everything for them so that they don't have to do any parenting.
Oh, gee. like some of us didn't see this coming, sarcastic applause.
In all seriousness, this is just sad. They want their kids to not play those games? THEN THEY DON'T LET THEM! Instead of trying to get the government to watch their kids for them, why don't they just do it themselves? I mean, my parents decided what I could and couldn't play. Sure, it annoyed me, but they did it cause they loved me, and it made me realize what kind of games I didn't like, and turned me into a rather decent person.... saying you want the government to watch what your kids play, means you just don't care about them... and you can deny it all you want, but its the bottom line.
I know that seems mean, but come on... isn't it a parents job to watch their kids, and teach them to make the right decisions?
All in all, I think that its the parents job to implement censorship, not the governments. I personally think, the fact that the courts keep taking cases about the censorship laws on games, is only encouraging this problem.
But, hey, that's just my opinion. People don't need to take it at face value... unless they want to...
In all seriousness, this is just sad. They want their kids to not play those games? THEN THEY DON'T LET THEM! Instead of trying to get the government to watch their kids for them, why don't they just do it themselves? I mean, my parents decided what I could and couldn't play. Sure, it annoyed me, but they did it cause they loved me, and it made me realize what kind of games I didn't like, and turned me into a rather decent person.... saying you want the government to watch what your kids play, means you just don't care about them... and you can deny it all you want, but its the bottom line.
I know that seems mean, but come on... isn't it a parents job to watch their kids, and teach them to make the right decisions?
All in all, I think that its the parents job to implement censorship, not the governments. I personally think, the fact that the courts keep taking cases about the censorship laws on games, is only encouraging this problem.
But, hey, that's just my opinion. People don't need to take it at face value... unless they want to...
