what is he talking about? I don’t know a single retailer that sells adult only video games. You can buy them online, but usually from overseas countries.
Is he talking about mature rated games, which are different from adult only games? The largest retail game store will not sell M rated games to anyone without photo id, and that includes merchandise related to the game like t-shirts and the like. If they are caught selling to underage kids, the employee and the store manager are automatically fired.
So it sounds like Mitt doesn’t have a clue on this subject.
Mitt should look into the American Library Ass.’s position on ratings. They believe that anyone should have complete access to anything in a library collection.
But this doesn’t mean that they support the concept of a family friendly library when it comes to acquititions. That would be censoring content/access.
Rather, the ALA’s position is that if you don’t want the public library loaning out PG-13, R, or NC-17 films to your kids, you should prohibit your kids from taking out any videos from the library. The ALA also will give tips to your kids on how to defeat web blocking schemes and browse “restricted” websites. The ALA also will permit your kids to see Madonna’s “Sex” book or anything in the library’s holdings. If you are old/curious enough to be interested then they believe you have the right to see it.
I never have heard about vice squads taking down librarians who are willing to let a minor have access to Playboy like they would the 7-Eleven clerk. And with people like Jimmy Carter giving interviews to Playboy, there are some libraries that consider there to be content worth preserving in the articles.
“what is he talking about? I don’t know a single retailer that sells adult only video games. You can buy them online, but usually from overseas countries. Is he talking about mature rated games, which are different from adult only games? The largest retail game store will not sell M rated games to anyone without photo id, and that includes merchandise related to the game like t-shirts and the like. If they are caught selling to underage kids, the employee and the store manager are automatically fired. So it sounds like Mitt doesn’t have a clue on this subject.”
Exactly right. In fact, every single action Mitt states he will take is already being taken, and has been so for a very long time now. Games are rated like movies, stores won’t sell X content, you can’t buy the ‘R’ stuff without ID, there are warnings to parents about a game’s content right on the box, game consoles have parental controls... the only thing missing in this whole scenario is a parent who actually cares about this. That’s something Mitt cannot provide no matter what he does.
Having no clue on the subject is certainly not helping his effort much, either. It’s possible he absolutely knows all the measures he proposed are in place already, and is simply counting on the rubes not being aware of it. If he wins he can point to the established game standards as his doing.
Mitt invented video game protections!