Posted on 07/14/2005 12:50:22 PM PDT by presidio9
WASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, who has attacked violent video games as "a silent epidemic" among children, said she wants a federal investigation into one of the most popular, "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas." Clinton, D-N.Y., is asking the Federal Trade Commission to probe how users of the game can access "graphic pornographic and violent content" for the game from the Internet.
In a letter dated Thursday to FTC chairwoman Deborah Platt Majoras, she also urged the agency to examine whether the game's rating of "M" for mature should be changed to an "Adults Only" rating.
The Entertainment Software Ratings Board, a self-regulatory ratings arm of the game software industry, is already investigating the issue.
New York's junior senator said it is time for the federal government to step in.
"There is no doubting the fact that the widespread availability of sexually explicit and graphically violent video games makes the challenge of parenting much harder," Clinton said in her missive seeking an FTC investigation.
The senator is also pushing legislation that would make it harder for young kids to get access to such content.
Even before her election to the Senate, Clinton spoke out against the amount of sexual and violent content available to children.
In March, Clinton delivered a speech to the Kaiser Family Foundation in which she called media sex and violence "a silent epidemic" among children, and sought federal research into how exposure to such graphic content affects young minds.
In that speech to media experts and child advocates, she singled out "Grand Theft Auto" as particularly harmful, saying it "has so many demeaning messages about women and so encourages violent imagination and activities and it scares parents.... They're playing a game that encourages them to have sex with prostitutes and then murder them. You know, that's kind of hard to digest."
What a pile of horse manure.
I'm not going to get too worked up over this but if she gets her hands close to "Battlefield 2" there will be hell to pay.
Yep - she's out there with the heavy senatorial lifting sure enough!
All her "federal investigation" is for is to get HER FACE ON TV - along with all the other losing democrats.
I heard she's meeting with the National Association For The Advancement of Undead and Mutated Americans to protest the forthcoming release of BioShock.
One would have thought events in London might have indicated there are more important things to think about than video games. This is posturing, pure and simple.
Regards, Ivan
We need less governmental interference, not more.
STFU, Hil.
Hilla the Totalitarian
That should be the battle cry if she runs for President in 2008..........STFU Hil.
I like it a lot :)
If I were a parent who'd bought this game for (say) a 16- or 17-year-old son, I would be upset to learn that he could download a code off the internet and turn it into an X-rated game thereby.
BUT, it's hardly something that one "makes a federal case" out of.
Hillary, take note:
It takes a family, not a village in place of one.
BWAAAAAAAAHAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
Hillary: "George, does your head hurt"?"
W: "Only when you open your mouth."
BJ: "Amen to that."
Yes if someone buys your game and modifies it to have porn you can now be held liable.
Wonder how much Chuckie paid AP to have the "junior" placed in there?
I don't doubt that X-rated game "mods" exist for GTA - they've popped up for many previous popular games, such as Tomb Raider.
I am asking this on each one of these threads. Last night my CJ had sex with a hooker in an abandoned parking lot in San Fierro. Does that make me a bad person?
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