Parents Television Council Calls Game Industry "Thugs" and "Bullies"

[SageRuffin]

I wish my mom could check this shit out. She'd laugh in their faces, might even make a blog about how they're all a bunch of idiots.

Shit... I totally forgot what else I was gonna say.

 

[scorptatious]

Considering that the generation before the people in our government attacked rock and roll, comic books, and T.V, you'd think these guys would realize that they're basically doing the same thing with video games and be a bit more empathetic towards us.

I wonder what form of media we'll attack when our generation runs the country?

 

[captain underpants]

The saddest part, though, is that this is a group comprised of, presumably, parents. What exactly is it that makes them incapable of regulating what their children consume? Last time I checked, this was sort of their responsibility. If they aren't bothering to do this, then they obviously aren't fit to be parents and should probably have their children placed in foster care.

Oh it's never their own lives that they're trying to control. No doubt they're already regimented to the microsecond, and their kids never see anything that might upset them. It's all those OTHER people that are the problem.

 

[Dorian6]

Let me see if I understand their argument. We send a message to senator Yee, saying that we won't stand idly by while he tries to infringe upon our 1st amendment right to free speech.

The fact that we love freedom makes us "thugs and bullies"

Sounds a lot like how many christians call gay rights groups "fascists" because we have the audacity to stand up for ourselves against ignorance and hate.

Congratulations hetero-gamers, you're now in the same boat as the gays.

 

[xam883]

realy, its not like their is a label on a game case (its in front if your eyes stoped working) saying what age the game is ment for.
and realy, why the hell should the government cover for your failing as a parent.
stop asking the government to give you handouts realy get off your asses and do some goddam parenting and trying to ban m rated games thats realy disgracefull and weak.
and not all games blood and sex, the best example being okami for the ps2 play that and see if you can say all games are about blood and sex.
and we have the right to voice our own opinion and be heard as we should be.
we are just people who love what we do and see games as well, art.

 

[natster43]

So the game industry and its supporters are bullies and thugs because we don't support their attempts of taking away our first amendment right? That makes since.

 

[mercenator3000]

Wait... I thought conservative groups were all huge fans of the constitution. Hmmmm.... something doesn't make sense here...

 

[Tom Phoenix]

PTC; the council of parents that refuse to take care of their children by themselves.

I don't know what is worse. The fact that they think a bunch of broken controllers constitute a "vicious attack" (the Senator himself didn't take the controllers very seriously; he even asked for a Kinect!) or the fact that they don't seem to realise that it is the parents themselves that are the primary reason why violent video games get into the hands of minors.

 

[Spellmaster]

Wouldn't it be easier by this point to have some simple process, like a decision process determining whether or not someone/some group is informed enough to make any level of judgement on anything? -and if not be ordered legally to stfu
We get too many self-proclaimed action/lobby groups blaming video games for their childs undesired growth, while willfully ignoring their own severely lacking parenting skills

ie- this conservative group -if they have not tried to play these games or ignoring the extremely progressive rating- protection systems in place already, are simply making a knee jerk reaction -"games are wrong etc"

Honestly we know that conservative/religious groups are the bane of any serious progression by other mediums, certainly our chosen medium, which is a hugely growing industry- is a target because people are utter morons and like to blame everything else for the sudden changes in their offspring.

This TELEVISION group is clearly ignoring their own medium for its serious oversexualisation of everything on a daily basis, how about lobbying the television networks to drop 70% of the crap that now runs on each channel?

 

[captain underpants]

Wouldn't it be easier by this point to have some simple process, like a decision process determining whether or not someone/some group is informed enough to make any level of judgement on anything? -and if not be ordered legally to stfu
We get too many self-proclaimed action/lobby groups blaming video games for their childs undesired growth, while willfully ignoring their own severely lacking parenting skills

Well, no. That'd be infringing on their first amendment rights. No, let them blather all they like. I just wish there was some respected media commentator that would call these people out for the bullshit they spread instead of pandering to them. Let them speak, and let them be ridiculed. THAT'S what freedom of speech gives you, and it's the only way to deal with them.

That said, seems that you only have to wait for people like this to inevitably say something so hilariously ludicrous, that it's becomes pretty clear even to the people that supported them that they've lost it. I'm thinking of Michael Atkinson and his 'gamers scare me more than bikers' comment, and him being forced out of his postiition not long after.

 

[cerebus23]

Any time your government starts talking about protecting kids look out your rights are about to get flushed down the toilet.

This same thing happened in the AU so not you get censored games or you do not get some games at all. Nm that in the AU games cost a silly amount of cash period. But the same cycle, politicians start talking about how we must save the children from games that games are evil and that they cause kids to go rambo on their teachers, other kids and their schools in general. Even while all evidence in the real world is exactly the opposite.

What really gets my goat, is the number of these people that run around spouting that todays video games sport out and out pornography. I have played a bunch of m rated games, and the most jaded of them will show some full frontal, or some topless girls but stop well short of anything could be remotely considered pornography.

I have yet to see a game made and sold in the west depict full out and out sex, every last one of them cuts away and shows you about as much as you would see on a daytime soap. Even gta games have never ever had actual sex in them, yea you got the guys shlong in the ballad of gay tony dlc, but it was about as far removed from any sense of sex it was just downright creepy. The copius amounts of drugs and violence in tbogt was far and away the thing that should have kept kids from playing the game.

Mass effect 1 a game that made the news because of these same parents that get out and run with wild abandon and yet have not a clue what the fuck they are talking about and just come off as silly and stupid, hell bill o'reiley made a show about the sex in mass effect he should have fired his editors, cause you know these editors are supposed to look into stuff before you put it on the air. Nevermind all the other news shows across multiple networks that ran with the story the day or two it was out there before it was entirely debunked.

The witcher which had nudity, violence, devil worship, witchcraft, etc etc and you collected sex cards for each of your conquests and the cards usually made the girls look rather nasty, even tho they were decidedly pg to maybe r just because of some of the poses.

But this whole article is like wtf, these people are the enraged villagers runnign around with pitchforks and torches and carrying blindfolds and ball gags and handcuffs, yelling that that 18 year old daughter that is cowering in the corner terrified is the bully and the aggressor and not the victim.

Not entirely apt but to twist gamers sending their broken controllers to the asshat that is leading the charge as some bullying tactic and that we are being aggressive, people in glass houses should not throw stones especially when they do not have a clue wtf they are speaking about.

 

[Ironman126]

This is starting to feel distressingly similar to several dystopian scifis I've been reading lately....

Either that or the USSR. Next thing you know the phones will be tapped.

Lol. Where have you been for the last nine years? The phones are already tapped. Does the term "Patriot Act" ring any bells? Cuz it should.

 

[Scarecrow]

This is pretty stupid. But could someone tell me why this thing is such a big deal? Maybe it's because I live in Australia, but I don't really see why all the gamers are getting angry. So they can't sell games to little kids, so what? You can still buy them.

 

[mattttherman3]

If anything were like Rosa Parks, I will not move to the back of the damn bus

 

[Kryten1029a]

Writing "I support the First Amendment' on controllers and mailing them out is a brilliant act of free speech. You'll see some changes when politicians begin to realize that we play games, we vote and we're more than willing to kick up a fuss when somebody pulls some stupid crap like this.

 

[garfoldsomeoneelse]

Ah, conservative watchdog groups: banning things left and right so they can ignore their kids without having to worry about what they might stumble upon. It just makes sense to violate the constitution when the alternative is to have to monitor your children and take an active role in their lives to teach them right from wrong.