If this videogame law passes say hello to censorship, and a lot of it.
It's been going on for years. Parents trying to stop developers from making violent games. In recent years several laws have been introduced to law makers but have been shut down. Now the US supreme court is willing to hear out the makers of said law.
However the industry won't go down without a fight. Now I'm not the biggest fan of Kotick and if anything I wish he would just disappear from the face of the earth and we'll all pretend all his doings never happened. But when it comes to my right to play whatever the hell I wanna play and not have it censored, then I guess that makes Kotick my best friend.
Kotick stood up and commented on the law how it violates our first amendment right as Americans. Now he may be saying this because if the law passes he'll loose money but this doesn't just affect him. This affects everyone who loves to play video games.
"Our First Amendment has survived intact for 219 years amid far greater technological, historical and social challenges," Kotick said today in a
statement. "The argument that video games present some kind of new ominous threat that requires a wholesale reassessment of one of our nation's most treasured freedoms, and to take that freedom away indiscriminately from an entire group of our population based on nothing but age, is beyond absurd."
Kotick added that similar attacks on the First Amendment have been leveled on "books, comics, rock 'n' roll, movies, TV and the Internet. In each case, freedom prevailed."
"Instead of tampering with the nation's Constitution and wasting taxpayers' money on setting forth unenforceable regulations during budgetary crisis," Kotick continued, "California could and should have adopted any number of measures and campaigns designed to ensure even higher rates of parental understanding of, and reliance on, the industry regulation system."
Of course there will always be people to support the law like James Stayer CEO of Common Sense Media who said that the game industry isn't doing nearly enough to protect minors from ultra violent video games.
Common Sense Media. You'd think having the word common sense would actually entitle the CEO to have some common sense. First of all it is not any companies responsibilities to teach parents how to be parents. If they did their jobs right they wouldn't have such fucked up kids if any.
Instead of being out there protesting why not spend time with their kids and teach them right and wrong. How stupid do you have to be to let somebody else raise your kids. If they want to protect their kids that's fine lock them up in the basement and never let them out but do it in a fashion that does not affect my entertainment.
Violent Games aren't for kids. I agree too, Do you job as a parent and everything will be fine. If you let your kids play violent video games. That's fine too as long as you're there to monitor them. Wanna get rid of your kids and let them play whatever the hell they want as long as they don't bother you but want to protest later on because they're little screw ups. Now we have a problem.
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